Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day I was called back from my duties of covering the coroner 's and juvenile courts and told that henceforth I was to be the paper 's " walking reporter " tramping the Dales and picking up whatever stories I could find . |
| 2 | BELVILLE : So I am to be exposed in my house by such a sauce-box as you . |
| 3 | So I am to be bought off — like a common harpy ! ’ |
| 4 | Govt. defeated and so I am to be P.M. The load will be heavy and I am so much alone . |
| 5 | It had seemed to her at the time that this was all she was to be allowed of Ace , and so it became the most precious thing in her life . |
| 6 | Infact , the team display did n't match the individual effort ( make sense ? ) perhaps they were to complacent about Swindon … who knows … still 3–0 => 3 points and 2nd place . |
| 7 | Thenceforward it was to be taken that Parliament had only conferred the decision-making power on the basis that it was to be exercised on the correct legal basis : a misdirection in law in making the decision therefore rendered the decision ultra vires . |
| 8 | I 've got a small networking job which needs doing quickly in Dr Pankhurst 's room — basically it 's to network in two additional PCs , one of which already has a network card . |
| 9 | Erm , Mr explained the reason for changing this but basically it 's to , to swap us again and that it will read that for one , that for ninety four to ninety eight the standard of grass cutting be seven occasions per year and the county surveyor in consultation with the Chairman be authorized to accept tenders from suitable contractors and the contracts be let to commence on the first of March nineteen ninety four . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps it is to be applied to some kind of child 's toy — a gunpowder-propelled kite ! ’ |
| 11 | So it is to Mr Binyon that I owe , initially , |
| 12 | So it is to them , the creators of American literature , that I look for clarification about the invention and effect of Africanism in the United States . |
| 13 | Young sculptors seem generally indifferent to its lures and so it is to veterans in the field that one must look for nourishment . |
| 14 | So it is to the consequences of structural change for the economics of global competition and the adjustments of firms ' strategies that we now turn . |
| 15 | Whichever explanation is revealed by the major research effort that is still needed for the rest of the 1980s , the population changes discussed above have also had a major impact on rural communities , and so it is to this topic that attention is now turned . |
| 16 | So it is to most fish 's advantage to grow to their maximum size as quickly as possible . |
| 17 | So it is to be business as usual . |
| 18 | So it 's to their interest to beef you up . |
| 19 | So it 's to be clear in what you 're saying to be able to explain yourself clearly so it 's about clarity |
| 20 | If so it was to be avoided , for Hugh was no longer a fighting man . |
| 21 | So it was to be expected that this sight should arouse some curiosity , and after putting their heads together the women put down their bowls and kettles and went over to ask the painter who was coming to live there . |
| 22 | So it was to the same mortuary as Jacob that the undertaker 's van took the two coffins . |
| 23 | Henceforth it was to be seen from time to time on route 16/18 . |
| 24 | The justices were ordered to have this statute read before them in their courts and henceforth it was to be firmly kept and obeyed . |
| 25 | Meanwhile I was to be foisted on my reluctant Aunt Harriet , whom I had only previously met at family gatherings . |
| 26 | In any event , and no matter what reforms were contemplated , the issue that was posed by Marius Moutet , pre-war Minister for the Colonies in the Popular Front and shortly to become Minister for Overseas France , was whether or not France really considered herself to be a nation of 100 m. and whether or not she was to be a great power . |
| 27 | Very soon we were to be concerned with matters less peaceful than the conduct of our kitchens . |
| 28 | In Buckinghamshire four of the five wealthiest lived in Aylesbury , Amersham and Buckingham , and elsewhere they were to be found at places like Bromsgrove and Kidderminster , Worcs. , and Blakeney , Little Walsingham and Great Yarmouth , Norfolk . |
| 29 | In this he suggests that description in terms of either permissiveness or control would be too simple and too binary , and thus it is to the nature of reformism that one must look . |
| 30 | Local knowledge matters in these firms , it supports innovation , and thus it is to be fostered . |