Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [be] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Broadly speaking , the higher an individual is in the social strata the less likely he or she is to be arrested , prosecuted and ( if prosecuted ) found guilty . |
| 2 | Rosita and I are to be punished , stuck there with long faces , alongside our fellow wrong-doers , representations of swarthy people , black as tea taken without milk . |
| 3 | Sir Robert Brackenbury , constable of the Tower , informed me this morning that my brother and I are to be moved . ’ |
| 4 | You know Victor and I are to be married . |
| 5 | ‘ For your information , Lucy and I are to be married — as soon as possible . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Lucy and I are to be married . ’ |
| 7 | My name is Howard DeVore and I 'm to be your host for the next eight hours . ’ |
| 8 | I am going to be away Thurs–Sun this week ( Roland , my brother , is getting married and I 'm to be bridesmaid ) but perhaps you would n't mind giving me a ring sometime ? |
| 9 | George and I were to be victims , I was to be taken to the top floor and George to the third floor up . |
| 10 | Henniker and I were to be taken up to Mr. Ingard 's room , Spalding and Miss Robinson were to go to the offices allotted to us on the second floor . |
| 11 | It was an affliction rather than a gift , and I was to be healed of it two years later by what I believe was the power of Christ . |
| 12 | They informed me that my Mom had been taken into hospital and I was to be taken into care until she recovered . |
| 13 | Mother and Father had been married for six years and I was to be their only child . |
| 14 | And you 're to be allowed the freedom of the outer ward , to take air and exercise with me sometimes . |
| 15 | MAUDE Alice Rand is 107 today and she is to be wished many happy returns by the Queen , the Queen Mother and the Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 16 | She had long legs and a mane of blonde hair ; as she laboured at her typewriter on classified memoranda she drew into North 's office a little stream of besotted admirers , and she was to be spotted after the scandal broke driving round Washington in her red sports car ( FAWN 1 ) , blowing smoke out of the windows . |
| 17 | They think the game is over and we are to be whipped off like hounds , back to Uncle . ’ |
| 18 | Now when we open the scriptures we find clear commands , that th that there are , when we come to Jesus and accept him as our saviour then we are to obey him and we are to be baptized ! |
| 19 | The numbers of those who have added to the ‘ goodness ’ on earth are legion , and they are to be found among all the races of the world , from origins of the humblest to the most exalted . |
| 20 | Their emphasis is usually ‘ Christian ’ rather than ‘ denominational ’ and they are to be found almost wholly in large conurbations . |
| 21 | That has not been the attitude of David Houghton or his group , and they are to be congratulated for that . |
| 22 | Er your Royal Highness , Chairman , Commodores , Ladies and Gentlemen , the accounts have been circulated and they are to be found on pages eight to fourteen with the report and there are copies around the room . |
| 23 | Hillhouse assistant site manager Ian Henderson said : ‘ This award is the culmination of a lot of hard work by all the team and they are to be congratulated on bringing their quality assurance scheme to the high standard recognised by this presentation . ’ |
| 24 | The king instructed the sheriff to arrest them , and they were to be kept in prison until further orders . |
| 25 | They were so run down that passenger trains were rarely entrusted to them if anything else could be found , and they were to be seen hauling coal trains as on this occasion when No. 46156 ‘ The South Wales Borderers ’ passed Holmewood heading south in 1964 . |
| 26 | He and the American senator greeted each other as old colleagues and they were to be seen together for much of the remainder of that day , laughing over reminiscences . |
| 27 | The shirts were presented for the occasion by Buchan — and they were to be Arsenal 's downfall . |
| 28 | About 300 political prisoners had been deported from Lisbon to Madeira in the autumn and winter of 1930 , and they were to be important in the trouble which followed . |
| 29 | They expressed surprise at the figures I produced , and they were to be even more surprised in 1973 when a survey far more extensive than mine gave the number as 1,737,000 . |
| 30 | Yet if I reflect upon what happened , in what some might call an existential manner , or attempt what physicists might call a ‘ thought experiment ’ to reconstruct my situation , I can see myself as having been assailed by various impulses : to assist the dog and stop the car , to comfort the children , to drive on lest I and they were to be injured in an accident , to avoid the horror of confronting a demented animal . |