Example sentences of "i [be] to be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 You know Victor and I are to be married .
2 ‘ For your information , Lucy and I are to be married — as soon as possible . ’
3 ‘ Lucy and I are to be married . ’
4 If I am to be autonomous , God must go .
5 On Mr Gajdusek 's behalf , I feel he must mean I am to be impersonal in any help I give you with your problems .
6 I am to be married .
7 ‘ If I am to be disappointed , I should like to get it over . ’
8 He said : ‘ I am doing it my way and if I am to be able to beat Alain Prost I want to do it on the track by out-driving him , not by any other means .
9 Some boys if I 'm to be honest , but we have n't yet worked out the right way of gong about it .
10 Many people have found its traditional keystrokes to be somewhat less than mnemonic , an opinion I tend to subscribe to , if I 'm to be honest .
11 If I were to be critical it would be to say that the scratchplates could be finished off more tidily , and occasionally the necks and bodies do n't look entirely new — although that 's hardly surprising , really .
12 But I was to be disappointed .
13 My father travelled to Nairobi by way of Mega , Moyale , Marsabit , Laisamis and Nyeri , all places with which I was to be familiar some fifty-five years later .
14 But I like to think they knew I was to be married .
15 How glad I was to be homeless .
16 One of the things they taught me was to be independent of doctrine , for their separate advice to me was contradictory .
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