Example sentences of "[pron] [noun prp] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a humbler level , it gave him the service of Richard Barnby of Great Gonerby , whom Richard was to add to the Lincolnshire commission of array in winter 1484 . |
| 2 | At a humbler level , it gave him the service of Richard Barnby of Great Gonerby , whom Richard was to add to the Lincolnshire commission of array in winter 1484 . |
| 3 | And after what 's happened to me Rosella 's going to be treading very carefully indeed . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't tell me my Tom 's going to be right ? ’ |
| 5 | Camille herself — the Camille whom Camille was used to — merely noted exasperatedly that he seemed to have had plenty of time yesterday , sitting round in the cafe all morning . |
| 6 | He was replaced by Oscar Orbos , the Transport and Communications Secretary , whom Aquino was believed to be cultivating as a possible presidential successor on the expiry of her current term of office in 1992 . |
| 7 | Seeing the couple 's arrival and the manner in which Madeleine was clinging to Harry 's arm as they left the car , he persuaded his friend up to his bedroom on the grounds that he must want a wash and brush-up after the long journey . |
| 8 | Another company to which Ferranti is known to be talking is Daimler Benz , the giant West German vehicles , aircraft and electricals group . |
| 9 | ( This so-called ‘ Janissary ’ style , which Beethoven was to use to such startling effect in the finale of his Ninth Symphony , had already crept into Mozart 's music , in the Rondo alla turca and the ‘ Turkish ’ episode in the finale of the Violin Concerto in A major . ) |
| 10 | The programme , which Gorbachev was to present to the G-7 summit in London , was said to combine elements of the rival plans widely canvassed in June [ see p. 38272 ] , i.e. the official " anti-crisis " programme of Prime Minister Pavlov , and the radical " grand bargain " proposals of economist Grigory Yavlinsky . |
| 11 | Midland shares were the most actively traded on the stock market and fell 7 to 365p on announcement of the all-paper terms compared with the 400p which Lloyds is believed to be prepared to pay . |
| 12 | One dreads a future version in which Freud is set to work on the decision of Higgins and Pickering to set up together as two old bachelors . |
| 13 | Each case came with tasting notes , from which Dennis was given to quoting extensively . |
| 14 | Like Multitude and Solitude , it is an early exploration of the quest-adventure , man 's search for beauty as an ideal in human form , which Masefield was to bring to fruition in two later novels , Sard Harker and Odtaa . |
| 15 | At the same time they would also wish to distance themselves from the connotations of full employment with which Friedman was to invest to the concept of the natural unemployment rate ( see next section ) . |
| 16 | The Arab press had also referred to a deal by which Iran was said to be funding the purchase by Sudan of Chinese weaponry worth US$300 million over two years . |
| 17 | This accounts for some of the hopefulness with which France was to look to her African possessions for military manpower in the twentieth century . |
| 18 | The expression I am quoting is uttered by Dyer , and it is an expression which Ackroyd is given to using in his books . |
| 19 | Moreover under his rule the extent to which Prussia was committed to Eastern Europe and had her centre of gravity east of the Elbe was markedly accentuated . |
| 20 | Of the ‘ scholar patriots ’ perhaps one can say that , instead , they helped to awaken the national consciousness ; and in the evening of his life Phan Boi Chau , in a moving analogy in which Vietnam was likened to an orphan child which by this time should have learned to walk and France to a tutor who felt that the child was easier to control when he was unable to run , talked of a people whose traditional values had been destroyed and who were thus a generation of uprooted people on their own soil . |
| 21 | I know that you know who Hammond was talking to . |
| 22 | I do n't know I do n't know who Mr is referring to er Chair , but I presume you wish me to reply to some comments that came from across the other side of the room . |
| 23 | Gideon probably wondered who God was speaking to ! ! |
| 24 | At the Italian Open in Rome in May his suffering showed as he watched the family breadwinner losing to Amanda Croetzer who Jennifer was expected to breeze past on her way to more glory . |
| 25 | DEC wo n't get cozy with COSE until it sorts out the all-important ‘ process ’ of how things work and get selected , something COSE is believed to be finalising . |
| 26 | DEC wo n't get cozy with COSE until it sorts out the all-important ‘ process ’ of how things work and get selected , something COSE is believed to be finalising . |
| 27 | There is a procedure on quality planning and that 's what Dennis is going to er be talking about very very shortly , and this will explain how we generate an individual quality plan . |
| 28 | It is bigger than what Selina is doing to me , whatever that is . |
| 29 | The ancestral lady was not , however , to be put off , and hardly a week went by when she did not telephone or call on some pretext , bringing her gardener in tow to take cuttings or dig up bulbs , and keeping up her barrage of accusing questions , inquiring , for instance , in her peremptory manner , what Jane was going to ‘ do about ’ the long-neglected yew hedge . |
| 30 | This second possibility for modernism was partly what Adorno was referring to when he spoke of ‘ aesthetic rationality ’ . |