Example sentences of "be [to-vb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You are to go to Fincara . |
| 2 | The 59-year-old , who has been on a hectic 10,000-mile round trip to Buenos Aires , said : ‘ I 've only just woken up and my only plans now are to go to bed . ’ |
| 3 | Twisting her handkerchief in her lap she began straight away by saying , ‘ I believe you are to go to Rome soon , sir , ma'am ? ’ |
| 4 | The Schools Curriculum Awards are to go to Egglescliffe Secondary School , Bishopsgarth Secondary School in Stockton , Kirkleatham Hall School near Redcar and Easterside Primary School in Middlesbrough for establishing broad and balanced curriculums with activities both in and out of school . |
| 5 | Durham Constabulary will hold their annual charity pro-am golf tournament at Brancepeth Castle course on June 10 and the expected £7,000 proceeds are to go to Darlington Hospice . |
| 6 | The atrocity lent a new urgency to UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali 's announcement at the London talks that extra Western troops are to go to Bosnia . |
| 7 | Tomorrow I am to go to Professor Dachauer at the Academy at 11.00 with Dr Viola . |
| 8 | ‘ You 're to go to Spain to write an article about the countryside , the wildlife , this fabulous hacienda and the carefully bred horses . |
| 9 | No , you 're to go to bed . |
| 10 | You 're to go to Saffron Walden and then you 're supposed to make friends and all this sort of , and he went through all this for about five minutes and this lad |
| 11 | ‘ Mat says you 're to come to dinner tonight and stay over . |
| 12 | If we are to point to government growth , then different conceptions of the term might lead to different measures of growth . |
| 13 | And that is the recommendation officers of the club are to put to members following an executive committee meeting at the weekend . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , you 'll have to do something , ’ she answered sharply , ‘ unless we are to starve to death . ’ |
| 15 | The obvious thing seemed to be to retire to bed ; both women felt crushing exhaustion . |
| 16 | Cara queried , but as she quickly caught on , ‘ Oh he 's not coming to England — I 'm to go to Czechoslovakia . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ But the p-powers that be have decided I 'm to go to Jamaica . |
| 18 | Would n't the right thing be to write to London Transport withdrawing the complaint , and send a friendly letter to the conductor himself explaining the meaning of ‘ Ms ’ and asking his tolerance for opinions differing from his own ? |
| 19 | ‘ If I 'm to talk to Evelyn Lennox , ’ he said calmly , ‘ I need to brief myself in advance with anything she might throw at me . ’ |
| 20 | Mr Godfray also suggested that the constructive approach would be to stress to MPs the importance of books in education and training — two of the government 's pet issues — rather than concentrating on an anti-VAT message , which might fall on rather deafer ears . |
| 21 | Several , for instance , are deciduous , and the only way to have berries at Christmas would be to emigrate to Chile . |
| 22 | The danger here is that stand personnel 's time can be taken up talking to the converted , whereas the objective should be to seek to interest potential customers . |
| 23 | How much better it will be to say to people , ‘ We can ensure that the children you have will be the best possible children , the ones with the best inheritance , the ones who will make the world a really good place to live in instead of the misery it so often is . ’ |
| 24 | On Tuesday , they decided that the most sensible course must be to return to London . |
| 25 | Anything less would be to return to representations of our bodies which do not belong to us , and which are produced in other languages than our own . |
| 26 | Naturally , I felt the temptation to deny immediately and unambiguously such motivations as my employer was imputing to me , but saw in time that to do so would be to rise to Mr Farraday 's bait , and the situation would only become increasingly embarrassing . |
| 27 | If England , with four or five new faces in the side , were to lose to South Africa , then the blow to morale would be considerable . |
| 28 | We were to drive to Paris the long way , via cups of steaming chocolat on the quayside in Honfleur and a saucisson and baguette picnic on the back seat outside the Palace of Versailles : some motorway , some back roads , some Routes Nationales and then the Peripherique and Paris . |
| 29 | Jellicoe and Zirnheld were to go to El Daba , and the sixth group led by Captains Warr and Schott would aim for Sidi Barrani . |
| 30 | Eventually he reached Kirwan and was assured that no South Africans would be involved and that the match has some sanctity as the proceeds were to go to child cancer research — not that that dissuaded some cynics from suggesting that some players may have taken their share . |