Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [am/are] [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If then you have invited the artists of Europe to send in plans for a Plan which we have no intention of executing , two questions will arise — the first is who will pay the Premiums which you propose to offer for these Plans , seeing that we could hardly propose to Parliament to vote Premiums for Plans that are not to be executed , and secondly whether the Artists of Europe will not think that they have been trifled with in being asked to send in Plans for an undertaking which the Govt had on consideration determined not to attempt . |
| 2 | At this point we go on to plant noumenal gardens that are not to be contemplated or comprehended by the understanding or conveyed in words . |
| 3 | Nowadays , most excavations are conducted on sites that are about to be destroyed , and so when the excavation is finished , the site is left to its fate . |
| 4 | Talking principally about the adult education market and the private language schools where ‘ business ’ English is much in demand , he says : ‘ There are lots of gaps that are there to be filled . ’ |
| 5 | Its purpose is to examine in detail the various experimental procedures that have been said to demonstrate acquired distinctiveness and to determine which generate reliable effects that are not to be explained away in other terms . |
| 6 | The 1990 Report discusses a number of consequential matters that are yet to be decided , including assistance for the deaf ; the preservation of , access to , and use of the television archives ; and the provision of a television feed to Members ' rooms . |
| 7 | Public collections of oriental carpets can be found in a number of galleries and museums throughout the Western world ; in addition to those already mentioned , the Metropolitan Museum or Art , New York , the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Poldi Pezzoli Museum , Milan , have carpets that are not to be missed . |
| 8 | The stringings of some of the instruments that the authors include in the category of ‘ fairly full evidence ’ seem fragmentary and ambiguous because the majority of strings that are there to be measured are considered to be replacements of non-original diameters . |
| 9 | For the Christian , it is natural that God should become a person at the Incarnation rather than a dog or a stone , not necessarily because persons are somehow more technically advanced on a scale of being , but because they display the qualities that are most to be valued . |
| 10 | Er , in a number of ways I think everybody will agree that it 's been improved by er the er demolition of the terrace blocks , rather than refurbishment and the opportunity has been taken to create erm perhaps a a more comfortable relationship between bungalows that are about to be refurbished and the new houses , because the new houses are designed in such a way as to keep the scale down so whereas the terraced blocks were anything up to four storey , the new houses will only be two storey and in a number of cases they will they will be a relatively low two storey so that erm I will just point out on the front elevations that the roof comes down fairly low relative to the first floor windows so that it 's not too much above the , the roofs on the bungalows , we 're not talking about compromising people 's heads on the internal though ! |
| 11 | There is no point in having to wait weeks for the concrete scaffolders , nor is there any point in having the site cluttered with pipes that are only to be needed later . |