Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [pers pn] be to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can compare this with a similar attempt made eight years later by Stubbs ( 1983 ) , who distinguishes four main areas of language which teachers should know about if they are to be able to make informed decisions about language problems at school : |
| 2 | They do not speak about electrons and their states of motion as if they were to be taken less seriously than , say , billiard balls or elephants . |
| 3 | On the 13th , MacDonald had noted in his diary that Cabinet-making looked ‘ as if it is to be the most horrible job of my life . |
| 4 | For much of Act I , too , Jonathan Summers 's Posa seemed as if it was to be a rough-and-ready performance by this gifted baritone . |
| 5 | ‘ You ate that as if it was to be your last meal on earth . ’ |
| 6 | A Lockean ‘ idea ’ is not just what a word stands for if it is to be meaningful . |
| 7 | He told one correspondent that Eliot owed his best poetry to Pound — he was convinced that there would eventually be a vogue in favour of Pound which would take the form of a reaction against Eliot ( in that he was to be proved right ) . |
| 8 | It had dawned on me that not only was I leaving the comfortingly familiar surroundings of primary school but that I no longer had any influence whatsoever on the other pupils at the school which I had had before but I was to be demoted to ‘ the annoying first year ’ . |
| 9 | Another method for dosing ‘ careful ’ patients is also suggested in the same chapter whereby the pellet is dissolved in 200 ( approx.8ml ) , 300 ( 12ml ) or 400 drops ( 16ml ) of a 50% brandy solution , depending on whether it is to be weaker or stronger , and one , two , three or several drops , according to the irritability of the patient , are dropped into a cup containing a tablespoon of water . |