Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meeting took place under the guise of the 1987 Technology and Change Agreement whereby the Banks are to meet twice a year with the IBOA to discuss their future plans . |
| 2 | NAPALM DEATH , who are about to commence their ‘ Campaign For Musical Destruction ’ tour , are to give away a free EP with their ‘ Utopia Banished ’ album , set for May 18 release through Earache Records . |
| 3 | Despite financial difficulty , the Greens are to put forward a record number of candidates in the forthcoming general election — 332 in the case of a June poll and 400 in the case of an autumn election . |
| 4 | The proposal may be to replace just a single building or a row of shops , or there may be plans for a comprehensive redevelopment involving a whole block or more . |
| 5 | He 's been to watch quite a few games here since the day he left and that shows he still loves the place . |
| 6 | Each partner was to bring in £50 per share ; they were to meet once a month at least , with the accounts made up and settled every three months . |
| 7 | If a price rise were to discourage even a small proportion of buyers , then that basic cost would rise yet further . |
| 8 | If she were to hum quietly a popular song of the day , or laugh gaily at something which tickled her sense of humour , then he let loose a stream of abuse and insults , shouting hysterically . |
| 9 | From that point they were to make over a hundred films together , some thirty of them silent ones , and with their best work probably deriving from the phase 1929–35 , when they were engaged in creating coherent and sparse twenty-minute cameos . |
| 10 | If a scheme for Northern Ireland is to have a real chance of success , it must not only enjoy the support of a majority — it must enjoy also the acquiescence of most of the rest , a vivid illustration of the need for an adequate social foundation for any constitutional structure which is to enjoy even a modicum of success . |
| 11 | To have a legal estate , whether freehold or leasehold , is to enjoy quite a considerable degree of individual freedom , within the private space accorded to you by the law . |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps the best we can hope for is to conduct here a kind of uneasy holding operation until something else happens in another place ’ — but in most other respects , certainly in conclusions and prescription , they diverged to the point of confrontation . |
| 13 | The first is to provide now a mental health service specifically for hostel dwellers or those living on the streets . |
| 14 | The most essential thing is to prune once a year , and if you miss the summer , prune in winter . |
| 15 | A LUXURY £12 million hotel with a TV theme is to open just a stone 's throw from Coronation Street . |
| 16 | Unless a society is to utilise only a fraction of the intelligence at its disposal it must obviously in one way or another make sufficient provision for vertical mobility to ensure that capacity passes , unimpeded by vulgar irrelevancies of class or income to the type of education fitted to develop it . |
| 17 | The purpose of this paper is to put forward a case for developing the online catalogue 's potential as an interactive retrieval tool for the library user . |
| 18 | To suggest , for example , that adult maturity is built on a foundation of ‘ basic trust ’ that must be established in infancy ( as Erik Erikson did ) is to put forward an interesting idea which is , in practice , extraordinarily difficult to substantiate . |
| 19 | The objective of their ‘ Unified Unix ’ vision is to put together a cost structure for open operating environments that can match NT on the desktop . |
| 20 | The objective of their ‘ Unified Unix ’ vision ( UX No 429 ) , is to put together a cost structure for open operating environments that can match NT on the desktop . |
| 21 | On that day the Mexican Government plays host to United Nations ' World Environment Day , the purpose of which is to send forth a clear message : |
| 22 | The area is known as referential communication , as the role of the speaker is to describe verbally a given object ( or , more rarely , an action or relationship ) , so that the listener , relying entirely on the language received , can work out what the message refers to . |
| 23 | This is to name only a few . |
| 24 | What is clear , though , is that Shakespeare 's presence on the National Curriculum is to represent both a timeless cultural importance and one specific to the Renaissance . |
| 25 | It is to have both a mass market cover and an up-market one . |
| 26 | A particularly straightforward procedure in principle and yet a very informative one is to add carefully a layer of hot salty water on top of one of cold fresh water ( or the counterpart of this in which two solutes are used instead of heat and one solute ) . |
| 27 | The aim of this project is to collect systematically a data base which will serve as a permanent collection open to all researchers in the UK . |
| 28 | To accuse us of thinking we are the only ones interested in peace is to reiterate mindlessly a routine anti-CND slogan . |
| 29 | The Ministry of Defence has announced that RAF Abingdon is to close almost a year earlier than expected . |
| 30 | The best way to find out how they were attached is to chisel away a little plaster next to the rail . |