Example sentences of "in a [noun] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Dr Digby has pointed out : " That a freeborn Englishman had the right to be relieved in his own home and should not be imprisoned in a workhouse was to be a recurrent theme in East Anglian popular protest . " |
| 2 | So what I 'm gon na ask you to do in a minute is to line up in threes . |
| 3 | Presumably , the closer the referents of the familiar terms in a domain are to the potential referent of an unfamiliar word , the more specific are the inferences that children can legitimately make . |
| 4 | You can use PTR# to select which item in a file is to be read or written to next . |
| 5 | The households in a town are to be sampled in order to estimate the average value per household of assets that are readily convertible into cash . |
| 6 | First , responsibilities for care for the chronically handicapped in a community were to be given to those elected by the local population ; thus the electorate would , in theory , have greater control over the way local services are provided . |