Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] be [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A section of canal derelict for forty years is to be reopened after the installation of four new lock gates . |
| 2 | It was ready for the further development of Capitalism as the means of assuring the exponential increase in production which the Industrial Revolution was making possible , the phenomenal expansion which for the next forty years was to be centred on a Britain uniquely the workshop of the world and the engine of economic growth . |
| 3 | A gap of 10 to 12 years is to be expected . |
| 4 | Reagan announced that MX missiles were to be grouped together to frustrate attack by missiles . |
| 5 | That the Corporation do maintain a good and efficient School , whereof a Free School , at which not less than 30 boys are to be educated , shall form apart . |
| 6 | She had been so thrilled too at the discovery that her home for the next six months was to be such an unconventional one . |
| 7 | In 1850 his eldest son David became a partner and soon six brothers were to be involved in the firm in various capacities . |
| 8 | The hutted wards , built more than 40 years ago with a life expectancy of 10 years are to be demolished . |
| 9 | Particular outstanding work is dealing with changes to the Community Charge Register which have to be reflected in the Council Tax liabilities , approximately 30,000 changes were to be processed in this area . |
| 10 | In Australia , in Melbourne Park , a hundred thousand people sat waiting for the Victorian Football League Cup Final , and while they waited the 100 metres was to be relayed on the stadium scoreboard from Seoul . |
| 11 | Various services and facilities were to be contracted out or sold , and the possibility of privatizing 44 hospitals was to be investigated . |
| 12 | Each of the 10 counties were to be allocated a seat , with two each for exiled parties . |
| 13 | Only eight weeks before the sale , Christie 's announced that sixty-six drawings were to be auctioned without first being offered to any national institution by their owner , Viscount Coke . |
| 14 | Neil Clarke , chair of British Coal , announced on Oct. 13 that production was to cease at 31 of the corporation 's 50 pits over the next five months ( including four which were to be mothballed ) and that up to 30,000 jobs were to be lost . |
| 15 | AT least 100 jobs are to be axed at recently merged Yorkshire and Tyne Tees TV . |
| 16 | Seven Hurricanes and eight pilots were to be sent , but at El Abqar , where refuelling took place , Plt.Off . |
| 17 | The principle which underlay the concept of Jubilee , ( that all land alienated during the preceding fifty years was to be returned to its original owner or his descendants ) was that each family should not find itself in a position in which it was permanently barred from owning land , the vital productive asset in that economy . |
| 18 | Throughout July and August the Khmers Rouges maintained their boycott of phase two of the October 1991 UN peace process , under which 70 per cent of the country 's estimated 200,000 fighters were to be assembled and disarmed [ see p. 38864 ] . |
| 19 | To assist the EEC in these objectives , three funds were to be set up : a European Social Fund to develop ‘ employment opportunities for workers ’ and to raise their standard of living ; a European Investment Bank to further economic expansion through the use of loans and guarantees ; and a European Development Fund targeted upon the associated French overseas territories . |
| 20 | At Angle in Pembrokeshire the first new slipway and boathouse to be built for 31 years is to be constructed . |
| 21 | However , the fact that 90 seats were to be reserved for workers , peasants , scientists , intellectuals , artists , students and ethnic minorities " active in the revolution " ( all of whom were expected to be NSF supporters drawn from its 145-member Council ) led to opposition accusations that the NSF meant to retain power . |
| 22 | A satellite which will monitor the earth 's ozone layer for three years is to be deployed from the US space shuttle Discovery , launched in September . |
| 23 | If the three routes are to be made available to a beginning reader then two main types of skills will be required — those involving the application of the GPC rules , and the use of an extensive sight vocabulary . |
| 24 | From Sounion comes a splendidly illuminating decree of the demesmen , which reads : ‘ It seemed good to the men of Sounion : since Leukios has given the demesmen land to build an agora , three men are to be chosen straight away to measure an area not less than 2 plethra by 1 , so that there shall be broad space for the men of Sounion to agorazein ’ … ( the last word is untranslatable : ‘ carry on all the activities usual in an agora ’ is accurate but too prosaic ; there is also the sense of ‘ promenading oneself : Syll. 925 ) . |
| 25 | An Essex Police spokesman said the three men were to be praised for their swift action following the raid . |
| 26 | The announcement that no less than three mission-territories are to be entrusted to native African bishops has rejoiced mission-minded Catholics all over the world . |
| 27 | British Aerospace workers ' hopes of a revival were shot down yesterday with the news that 650 jobs are to be axed . |
| 28 | This approximate total of 5500 jobs is to be compared with the 1974 estimates of 17 000 jobs by the early 1990s . |
| 29 | NEARLY 90 jobs are to be axed by a healthcare trust as a result of cost cutting . |
| 30 | Six hundred thousand ducats were to be brought ashore at Saltash , while at Fowey the Spanish sailors themselves helped to unload two pinnaces of twenty thousand gold reals , which were carried to Place House before forwarding to London . |