Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother . |
| 2 | I am to remain ill and without treatment , I am to carry on with the exhausting task of caring for an old and senile woman . ’ |
| 3 | In any case , if any of the pupils are to go on with the language at A level , they will simply have to learn some grammar at some stage . |
| 4 | If Mr Newton is right , perhaps Mr Lamont will one day be able to please the traditionalists … by announcing that the railways are to go back to the good old steam age . |
| 5 | ‘ If we are to go out of the Cup then let it be to a side packed with international stars . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , unless we are to fall back on the unsatisfactory practice of listing verbs which do support the construction and those which do not , some other factor must be waiting to be discovered , which will help to explain why ( 56 ) and ( 67 ) seem outright ungrammatical , and yet we can have either of ( 68 ) and ( 69 ) : ( 68 ) Tania left despondently ( 69 ) Tania left despondent To conclude , we may point out that there will clearly be a close connexion , under certain choices of lexical items , between the surface construction ( 44 ) and ordinary predicative position . |
| 7 | Her first instinct had been to creep back to the familiar haven of her room , but now Chesarynth could n't face its bright emptiness . |
| 8 | If we are to come out of the recession without increasing inflation , we need to sell more goods abroad and at home in competition with imports , but we will not be able to do that . |
| 9 | So I said well please make sure you 're in before you 're to go up on the bus . |
| 10 | ‘ Guv'nor says you 're to set off on the side nearest him , ’ Bob said briefly . |
| 11 | However , if surveyors are to keep up with the inevitable changes taking place , they must become familiar with the new contracts . |
| 12 | Anyhow , whatever it was , maybe a little , as Jan says , he also had a f a bad flu bug at a bad time anyhow he crashed out of the computer science course and he announced that he was only regarding the computer science course as being a stepping stone to being a teacher so the sensible thing to do would be to go on to the teacher training course at Lancashire , an education course , cos that 's what he wanted to do . |
| 13 | The only way to reverse what the hon. Gentleman alleges would be to go back to the sort of tax rates that we had under the last Labour Government — 83 and 98 per cent . |
| 14 | She told herself that the best thing she could do would be to go out of the house and climb up to where the buzzards and the ravens nested on the clifftop , but she did n't pay herself much attention . |
| 15 | His objective had to be to drive on through the tumult and horror as best they could , not to get involved with individuals or groups , not to be sidetracked , so as to reach that further side , there to turn and repeat the dire process , difficult as this must be . |
| 16 | But you 've got to practice with me to get the movements right so I 'm to stand in for the swan . ’ |
| 17 | Failing this , the most accurate method would be to drill through within the area of the proposed opening and , with an assistant , measure the depth . |
| 18 | My first duty will be to Nottingham and our aim will be to get back to the top . |
| 19 | Instructions are to hang in between the taps and any trapped spider will climb up it and away to other parts . |
| 20 | The better your plan , the more likely you are to end up in the right place . |
| 21 | The directors Jim Johnston and Sandy Moffat are to stay on after the Deanses agreed that an independent chairman be appointed to the board . |
| 22 | We need to sort out the EC 's finances if we are to get on with the community 's enlargement . |
| 23 | One of the battles my friends and I have had since coming to Rhodesia has been to stay out of the little box into which some people would like to pop us . |
| 24 | ‘ My priority had always been to get back into the Irish side , and I was never prepared to look any further than that . |
| 25 | Naval vessels were also contributed by Belgium and Italy ( which both on Aug. 21 confirmed that minesweepers sent initially to the eastern Mediterranean were to proceed on to the Gulf ) ; Greece announced on Aug. 20 that a frigate would join the naval forces in the Gulf , and Spain made a similar announcement the following day . |
| 26 | Such arguments over values , political or religious , were to go on into the next decade . |
| 27 | If one of these groups were to go over to the other side — as the army did in Romania — the balance of forces would be altered . |
| 28 | Off you go , ’ and I gathered we were to go back to the beginning and start again . |
| 29 | As for the rest of NATO , the cause of world peace , not to say sanity , would be served if these countries were to look back to the decision of 1979 and to admit , even to themselves , that they were wrong . |
| 30 | It was still not yet fully dark outside , and if she were to look out of the window , she would be able to see at once whether the outside world was part of her own world or whether it , too , was caught in this terrifying time slip . |