Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun prp] be to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enormous areas of eastern Germany were to be handed over to Poland . |
| 2 | This point is sensibly picked up in the Vienna Sales Convention , which provides in article 1(2) that : The fact that the parties have their places of business in different States is to be disregarded whenever this fact does not appear from the contract or from any dealings between , or from , information disclosed by , the parties at any time before or at the conclusion of the contract . ’ |
| 3 | At the end of Owen 's testimony , Senator Inouye said he had received the impression that to be against the President 's policy in Central America was to be ‘ less than patriotic ’ . |
| 4 | The web of diplomatic contacts which had developed in western and central Europe over the last 200 or more years was now being extended further east by the full incorporation in it for the first time of the great new emerging state of Russia : henceforth events in eastern Europe were to be far more significant in the calculations of statesmen in the west than ever in the past . |
| 5 | Disadvantaged rural areas in western Europe are to be found mainly on the geographical periphery . |
| 6 | They have been exacerbated by rumours that ethnic Germans from Soviet Asia are to be moved into the Kaliningrad region and allowed to set up an autonomous republic there . |