Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [be] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps , like Hope , he found an inexplicable access of joy : ‘ I must be alone , ’ he wrote , ‘ if either my imagination or my heart are to be enriched . ’ |
| 2 | I speak from the heart here , as it so happens that my sister is to be married this month and my mother is trying her hardest to organise the wedding that we ( never mind my sister and fiancé , these things are family affairs ) , want . |
| 3 | ‘ At one time I thought my vocation was to be a surgeon or doctor . |
| 4 | I really needed a rest and my hope was to be fit for the start of the National League programme at the end of September , but I doubt if that will be the case . |
| 5 | The interior of my mind was to be shaped according to his merchandising plan , with circular display racks of concepts standing in aisles of cogitation , flanked by long shelves groaning with brightly coloured little ideas . |
| 6 | During the week , I work in a music shop , and my ambition is to be a professional guitarist . |
| 7 | But now my ambition is to be a full-time writer . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ My liver is to be buried separately from the rest of me , with full honours , ’ he was to say in a later film . |
| 9 | My dream is to be a housewife , perhaps in France or the Canary Islands , where I would n't have to think of work or money and could go on excursions to supermarkets . |
| 10 | Well my question was to be erm would your guests be happy to return to a Kuwait the same as it was before , but having listened I feel somewhat enlightened , although perhaps they 'd still like to answer the question in that form . |
| 11 | My aim is to be seriously funny . ’ |
| 12 | The school authorities decided that my diet was to be strictly supervised , and that I should be weighed every week . |
| 13 | Oh I mean I I after we after er we may never see look at each other again so my my job is to is to say right I can forward your name to and say look you know er I will make one or two points this guy er needs to be concentrated on , not as an exception , but you know because we 've taken fliers with people before you 've been very successful . |
| 14 | Er , speaking of accountants , I must tell you that one of the perks of my job is to be able to get out and about in the real world , to real companies , meeting real people . |
| 15 | In the spring of 1932 , when I was ten years old , we heard rumours that my father was to be transferred to Italy . |
| 16 | When I pondered this I decided my role was to be a walking example , an end product , a result , a victim . |
| 17 | My beer was to be in a posh hotel where I was being treated for my birthday , and after the heaven of getting out of a T-shirt that was generating its own new species of life in the arm pits , and into a hot bath , I looked forward to discussing the day eagerly with my companion . |
| 18 | The main thing for me at this stage in my career is to be in a well organised team which will help me win the 250 World Championship . |
| 19 | And my Will is to be Buried in Linen in a Suit which I shall provide for that purpose And I do hereby order and direct that the Sum of Ten Pounds shall be paid to the person who shall be the last in attending me to the time of my expiring and who shall see me Inclosed and laid in my Coffin in Linen . |
| 20 | And the substance of my apprehension is to be found in the formidable dossiers of attainment which have been catalogued in numerous obituaries over the past week . |
| 21 | THE hit film Hear My Song is to be released on video for the blind — with talking subtitles . |
| 22 | At the Dixie Dude Ranch near the town of Bandera in the Texas hill country it was clear that my arrival was to be the excuse for a night out . |
| 23 | The most obvious , though inadequate , analogy I could think of for my situation was to be a light-skinned black person who identified with white people all her life , who had ‘ passed ’ as a white person for years and who had suddenly discovered the reality of Black Power . |
| 24 | I like being in a war and I like being there because it 's a great adventure for me , but my duty is to be there for a reason , not just to have a bloody good time … |
| 25 | Then I thought it might be an in-body experience — that my soul was to be confined to my body for some sinister theological reason. , |
| 26 | My garage is to be demolished very soon and I am worried that the pneumatic drill which may be used to break up the concrete base will upset or even kill my fish in a pond about 20′ away . |
| 27 | Two solicitors challenged this decision but the House of Lords held that since , in administering the scheme , the Society was acting in a public capacity in the interests of all solicitors and members of the public who employed them , the legality of its decision was to be judged according to principles of public law , not private law ; and so judged , what the Society had done was a proper use of its statutory powers . |
| 28 | ‘ But you must realise that Stella could be away for quite a period — especially if her appendix is to be removed . ’ |
| 29 | That task of alleviating anxiety is a matter for a whole school or college ; it is , too , a matter which requires commitment at a high level if its damage is to be reduced . |
| 30 | A second objection is that where both parties carry on business in Contracting States they can reasonably be subjected to the Convention automatically since it forms part of their national law , whereas parties carrying on business in different non-Contracting States who agree that their contract is to be governed by the law of a third State which is a Contracting State may well have in mind only the domestic law of that State and arguably ought not to be bound by the Convention unless they contract into it . |