Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] it [be] to [be] " in BNC.

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1 Members heard Beamish tell the audience that Germany was a great country today because Hitler had named the enemy and it was to be hoped that he would soon call an international conference on the question .
2 The majority of applicants qualify for sickness and disability benefit and it is to be expected that the proportion of manual workers receiving such benefits is higher than their corresponding proportion in the general population .
3 The runs have captured the imagination of the enthusiasts and it is to be hoped that British Rail will allow these trains to run in 1992 .
4 Its name is PMMLIB.GIMMSPOLYDAT and it is to be opened on unit 12 .
5 The arch was to remain one of the important station motifs but it was to be matched and surpassed by the tower .
6 AT&T Co says it plans to begin selling its first personal communicator in its phone centre stores this June — but the things are not likely exactly to walk off the shelves , because they will cost between $2,000 and $3,000 : the Hobbit-powered device will incorporate cellular phone , paging abilities , facsimile functions , electronic mail and messaging services and pen-based computing , and it derives from the company 's alliances with EO Inc and General Magic Corp and it is to be built by Eo .
7 Electrification was first mooted during the early LNER days but it was to be 1954 before the final chapter in the story of Victoria opened .
8 This was an elegant and substantial location for higher education but it was to be only the beginning .
9 This has seriously weakened the therapeutic and remedial potential of supervision orders and it is to be hoped that greater priority will be given to this area in the next few years .
10 Some failures are due to ischaemia , sepsis , and fistulas in the arly period after operation and it is to be hoped that these complications will become less with further experience .
11 I suppose if the doctor had got his diagnosis right , then I would have had to go to hospital but it was to be another ten years before I was sent to such a place .
12 Mozart , then between 14 and 17 , was still very much under his father 's thumb and it was to be another eight years before he broke free from Salzburg , settled in Vienna and married Constanze Weber .
13 Tribute was paid to the late 's contribution and it was to be brought to the notice of Divisions that nominations were sought .
14 This comment was later confirmed by Flying Scotsman Services and it is to be hoped that the long awaited 8F event will be sanctioned .
15 They were now an old married couple and it was to be expected .
16 The report represents a step forward in thinking about public sector higher education within at least part of the University of Wales and it is to be hoped that its influence spreads widely throughout that body .
17 The demanding business of running for the presidency had shown Carter to be an exceptionally energetic , ambitious and intelligent politician and it was to be expected that he would want to be an activist in the White House — a president who left his mark and fulfilled the commitments he had entered into during the campaign .
18 In fact what is proposed by Mr Ceravolo in his report to the Parliament is the setting of a timetable for the elimination of lead from petrol and it is likely that this will be on the agenda of the Council of Ministers in June and it is to be hoped that the Council will then call on the Commission to proceed to a new directive on the matter to replace the existing one which determines the 0.15 minimum level .
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