Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [be] to [be] " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps it is to be applied to some kind of child 's toy — a gunpowder-propelled kite ! ’ |
| 8 | So it is to be business as usual . |
| 9 | So it 's to be clear in what you 're saying to be able to explain yourself clearly so it 's about clarity |
| 10 | If so it was to be avoided , for Hugh was no longer a fighting man . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Henceforth it was to be seen from time to time on route 16/18 . |
| 13 | The justices were ordered to have this statute read before them in their courts and henceforth it was to be firmly kept and obeyed . |
| 14 | Meanwhile I was to be foisted on my reluctant Aunt Harriet , whom I had only previously met at family gatherings . |
| 15 | Very soon we were to be concerned with matters less peaceful than the conduct of our kitchens . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Local knowledge matters in these firms , it supports innovation , and thus it is to be fostered . |
| 18 | To the idealist , the whole world is a manifestation of a rational pattern in the mind of its Creator , and thus it is to be expected that natural forms should reveal a harmony and an underlying unity . |
| 19 | Third , a purely training model is inherently mechanistic and conservative : the task to be accomplished is given , assumed ; the training consists of instruction as to how best it is to be accomplished . |
| 20 | WHEN 20 representatives of the South African Cricket Union and the National Sports Congress sit down together in a Johannesburg hotel tonight it is to be hoped that among them is someone with the wisdom of Solomon . |
| 21 | There is no further mention of Ambrosia in the records , and possibly she is to be identified with the ‘ Dame Ambroise de Saint-Joire ’ named in 1288 among the first entrants to the Carthusian nunnery of Melan ( Haute-Savoie ) founded in 1282 by Beatrice de Faucigny . |
| 22 | Once more he was resolved upon a decisive breakthrough ; once more he was to be disabused and thousands of his men laid low in the mud of Passchendaele . |
| 23 | Five years later she was to be found lecturing on her expedition to the Gabon , she had climbed Mount Cameroon , and her Travels in West Africa was published to consolidate her reputation as a ‘ fish and fetish ’ expert . |
| 24 | Also it is to be noted that all the property given to the donee by the donor will be dutiable if the donor retains any benefit , etc and not just an apportioned part quantified with respect to the benefit . |
| 25 | Now I was to be a sales assistant . |
| 26 | Now I was to be given to Syl . |
| 27 | Now we were to be reconciled and it was the beginning of a thrilling era for both parties . |
| 28 | Now they are to be scrapped and sold off as scrap metal . |
| 29 | The league recently relaxed the overseas-player rules for the Crusaders — before they were allowed only five imports , three more than other teams , now they 're to be allowed 10 . |
| 30 | It had taken her three full days and now they were to be carried downstairs and arranged in the hall , after which her sister would take them to the post office . |