Example sentences of "[adj] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the person with these projects the forwarding of them has an importance to which utilitarianism can not do justice , for it must regard them as simply among the many preferences of which as many as possible are to be satisfied . |
| 2 | Various formulations of in exactly what respect the statements should be clear are to be found in the Speech . |
| 3 | Excursions : The most popular are to Salzburg and to Vienna , both beautiful , elegant cities , steeped in history and culture with lots to see . |
| 4 | The now familiar formula — seeking ‘ new forms and methods of management ’ — a coded attack on Brezhnev 's ‘ stability of cadres ’ , means that the old are to a replaced by the young , the incompetent by the competent ; it also signifies departures from outmoded routines and the unsettling of vested interests . |
| 5 | all women between 20 and 64 years old are to be invited for screening ( by March 1993 ) ; |
| 6 | all women between 50 and 64 years old are to be invited for screening by breast X-ray ( mammography ) by March 1993 . |
| 7 | The French were to be excluded from offices in Scotland — and Scottish noblemen must reject French pensions . |
| 8 | In comprehensive schools , all the British were to be treated the same , despite the obvious differences between us of sex , class , culture , ability , religion , race , and so on . |
| 9 | And the only way of making sure they do n't unless it 's completely clear is to be in a a safe positive lane on your way through the roundabout . |
| 10 | Not because we adhere to some outdated idea that to be commercial is to be tainted and somehow of no interest , but we felt we were redressing an imbalance . |
| 11 | One way of being dignified is to be above it all , to be silent when provoked . |
| 12 | To be old is to be , of necessity , unhealthy . |
| 13 | To be old is to be unhealthy . |
| 14 | Estes and Binney ( 1988 , p. 69 ) describe the image of older people in America as ‘ to be old is to be frail , sick , dependent and vulnerable ’ . |
| 15 | To be old is to be wrinkled and crabbit and heading for Parkinson 's or Alzheimer 's disease . |
| 16 | Talcott Parsons has proposed the very influential theory that of all other available institutions it is the classroom that above all converts an incomplete person into a member of the kind of society Parsons takes for granted as natural , that is , a kind of society where to be social is to be interested in achievement . |
| 17 | Where the phrenologists went wrong was to be too arrogant about their pronouncements ; they were also wrong to suppose that the human skull gives us much information about the brain it was designed to protect . |
| 18 | To be too direct was to be unfeminine . |
| 19 | Consequently notations such as the following are to be found : |
| 20 | If we turn to trusts we find Valens stating that if maintenance has been left by trust to freedmen without a sum being stated , then first of all the amounts usually paid by the deceased are to be taken into account , then his bequests to those of the same class , and failing these his assets and intimacy with the beneficiaries are to be considered . |
| 21 | The name of ABC and its subsidiary ABC ( Europe ) Limited are to be changed within 3 years of completion to a name which excludes reference to the ABC family . |
| 22 | But I would place a somewhat different emphasis , and suggest that in the Chewong case fear is a positive emotion and encouraged in children because to be fearful is to be human , while the arousal of other inner states is negatively valued and discouraged — as manifest in the various rules that forbid them ( see Howell 1981 ) . |
| 23 | When the winding is to be excited both transistors ( are switched on , so the voltage applied to the phase winding is equal to the sun , of the two supply voltages ( VL + VH ) , the diode D2 being reverse-biased by VH.There is no series resistance to limit the current , which therefore starts to rise towards a value which is many times the rated winding current . |
| 24 | And the only way to really run gilts if you 're serious is to actually trade them . |
| 25 | Wholegrain mustard is to Dijon what wholemeal is to brown flour . |
| 26 | One of the excursions which is slightly out of the ordinary is to the Ice Caves at Dachstein , where you are guided through a twilight world of amazing ice formations . |
| 27 | Whether the act was dangerous was to be judged by what the reasonable person would have appreciated . |
| 28 | Right-wing social democrats drew the conclusion that material advances could be won indefinitely and therefore nothing extra was to be gained by open class struggle . |
| 29 | This was a peculiar thing to do , because in 1963 in the House of Lords the Lord Chancellor had ruled that a free pardon wiped out a conviction and all its consequences , and the accused was to be regarded as having been acquitted . |
| 30 | ADSS secretary John Ransford said there had been a move away from domestic are to personal care . |