Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So I struggled on when the best thing would have been to go into the reserves and get my confidence back . |
| 2 | Their advice should probably have been to go down the High Street to a large newsagents and buy one or more magazines devoted to the PC and read up on the subject . |
| 3 | To get anger in perspective , it helps to see how many positive references there are to anger in the Bible . |
| 4 | Cleveland police are to object to the transfer of a licence for Henry Afrika 's nightclub in Norton Road , Stockton when the case is heard next month . |
| 5 | Sixty jobs are to go at the Dowty Seals factory at Ashchurch near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire . |
| 6 | Six hundred and twenty mining jobs are to go at the Bickershaw colliery in Lancashire and up to a hundred jobs will disappear at Granada Television , the makers of ’ Coronation Street ’ . |
| 7 | Six hundred and twenty mining jobs are to go at the Bickershaw colliery in Lancashire and up to a hundred jobs will disappear at Granada Television , the makers of ’ Coronation Street ’ . |
| 8 | There 's speculation tonight that up to two hundred jobs are to go at the Dowty Landing Gear factory at Staverton near Gloucester . |
| 9 | Up to a hundred jobs are to go at the Nationwide Building Society . |
| 10 | Three hundred and fifty jobs are to go at the headquarters of the credit card company Barclaycard . |
| 11 | 350 staff are to go at the Northampton headquarters . |
| 12 | About 600 jobs are to go at the corporation — about 30 per cent of the workforce — affecting staff at all levels . |
| 13 | First tonight 250 jobs are to go at the Royal Ordnance Rocket Research Plant which pioneered the infamous Blue Streak project . |
| 14 | Twelve hundred and twenty jobs are to go with the closure of the Ravenscraig steel works in Scotland . |
| 15 | 42 jobs are to go with the closure of accountacy firm KPMG Peat Marwick in Cheltenham . |
| 16 | Up to fourteen hundred defence jobs are to go with the closure of the Portland naval base and a cutback in the workload at Portsmouth . |
| 17 | And it 's surprising how reluctant people are to go to the police . |
| 18 | ‘ You are to go to the river . ’ |
| 19 | Author Ian Fleming 's original unpublished notes on his most famous creation are to go under the hammer at London auctioneers Sotheby 's on December 15 . |
| 20 | Author Ian Fleming 's original unpublished notes on his most famous creation are to go under the hammer at London auctioneers Sotheby 's on December 15 . |
| 21 | Now his MC and other wartime awards are to go under the hammer as receivers sell his belongings to pay creditors . |
| 22 | DIAMONDS , gems and jewellery recovered from one of the biggest robberies in history are to go under the hammer . |
| 23 | Coats and shoebags are to go in the cloakroom . |
| 24 | Nearly two and a half thousand jobs are to go in the motor industry , the majority at Ford , the remainder at Vauxhall . |
| 25 | Because people moving at different speeds measure different distances between events , they must also measure different intervals of time if they are to agree on the speed of light . |
| 26 | Restrictive practices concerned with crewing nationality are to continue for the most part until the end of the century . |
| 27 | ‘ Tax changes are going to have to be carefully considered if we are to continue on the path to recovery . ’ |
| 28 | The more you manage to re-educate your eating habits , stretch and tone your body , the more likely you are to continue in the long term . |
| 29 | Civil servants in an advanced industrial state are meritocratically selected ( Therborn , 1978 ) even though their tasks are to plan in the long-run interests of capitalism . |
| 30 | Tonight we are to lodge at the Blue Boar inn near High Cross , the same tavern the Usurper rested at before Bosworth . |