Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] [be] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as we shall see in Chapter 6 more flexible planning policies are required if the low-wage rural economy is to be alleviated and rural depopulation to be assuaged in those areas where it remains a problem . |
| 2 | This sort of interdependence of interests is a feature of the relations between industrialised countries ; having built a strong overseas market position , a country will be forced to take more account of external pressures if that strong position is to be maintained . |
| 3 | However , if that racing game were to be as poor as the film ( it is ) with graphics that look positively antiquated ( they do ) , you 'd expect the rating to be about 34% , would n't you ? |
| 4 | My right hon. Friend is to be congratulated on the dramatic reduction in the inflation rate . |
| 5 | My right hon. Friend is to be congratulated on showing that that can happen , and that a further step can be taken towards ’ ever closer union ’ on an intergovernmental basis , and not just on the basis of the treaty of Rome . |
| 6 | The second result of broad interest is that cultural diversity is to be expected even if the underlying cognitive development is rigidly programmed . |
| 7 | Free speech and free political association were to be backed by an extension of the franchise to all adults over the age of 20 , a formal extension of the power of the elected legislature ( the Diet ) and guarantees of judicial independence from both the executive and the Diet . |
| 8 | This hedonistic pragmatism is to be seen moulded for ever in the rolls of fat around the necks of the bronze and terracottaheads from Ife . |
| 9 | Following recommendations from the IIRS a different technical fix was to be employed to improve safety in dumping the asbestos . |
| 10 | Encouragement for small and medium-sized businesses would be accompanied by the " purging of public institutions " , and fresh foreign investment was to be sought . |
| 11 | According to a decree of July 12 signed by Adil Carcani , Chairman of the Council of Ministers , some free enterprise was to be permitted in the services and handicrafts sector . |
| 12 | But the lure of this historical explanation is to be resisted . |
| 13 | This definitive version was to be used in all churches throughout the realm . |
| 14 | The roots of British Philosophical Idealism were to be found in the philosophy of Hegel , as well as in that of Kant , Fichte , Plato and Aristotle . |
| 15 | Another such example is to be found in ‘ no bird-song , no , nor bough/breaking with honey buds , ’ which enforces the idea of nature being beneath the power of the train itself . |
| 16 | This comprehensive settlement was to be buttressed by reforms in those parts of European Turkey not otherwise dealt with . |
| 17 | This favourable trend was to be attributed on the one hand to efforts at ‘ re-industrialization ’ , for instance of steel closure areas in the Northern Region and Wales , and on the other to a partial reversion to the pattern of 1971–78 , when labour shortage in Greater London created some of the worst trends in manufacturing employment . |
| 18 | But perhaps the most remarkable adaptation of this versatile word was to be found in Robert Buchanan 's fierce attack on Rudyard Kipling 's poetry , which he denounced in 1899 as ‘ The Voice of the Hooligan ’ . |
| 19 | They were described as mere preparations for an Iranian final offensive , though this much-heralded event was to be a long time coming . |
| 20 | President Gorbachev wanted to double Soviet nuclear-generated electricity within 5 years — 50 per cent of this rapid growth was to be achieved by the construction of the Chernobyl-type graphite-moderated reactors RBMK-1000 and RBMK-1500 . |
| 21 | Convenient summaries of this previous work are to be found in Lo ( 1986 ) and Griffiths ( 1988 ) . |
| 22 | This unifying character is to be found in the method of the common law . |
| 23 | But the serrated gratings must have sufficiently broken the crust of the brick-broken mutilated plastimetal that covers a great deal of the world that is an eyeball , and little light yellow-green stubs poked through , cos the Sun was still up there , way up there , even though someone had devised a new kind of force of matter transference and was attempting to move the Sun to his laboratory-country where it would be used to grow humlants — in which the old human brain was to be stretched in durable fibrosity and connected inextricably to root and flower , making rings of energy that took their partners for a whaltz or a flexitrot and multiplied their species by being fried on a plasetal plate whose temperature was so great that they never actually touched it but skimmed over , coming off the other side as a more-than-when-they-started . |
| 24 | The best example of this latter approach is to be found in Professor R. N. Anthony 's Financial Accounting in Non-business Organizations ( 1988 ) . |
| 25 | Article 16 allows extension to arbitrations and ‘ other matters within the jurisdiction of special courts ’ ; it is not at all clear how this latter phrase is to be picked up in a declaration , as different states ( of origin and of destination ) may establish specialist courts for a variety of purposes , including adjudication on matters plainly civil or commercial in nature . |
| 26 | This great expansion is to be explained by newly available resources — available in Lorraine because of the Thomas process , in Scandinavia because of railway-building — a fall in costs thanks to a better transport network , the development of integrated plants and improvements in fuel technology . |
| 27 | This four-year project is to be jointly co-ordinated by the School of Oriental and African Studies , University of London , and the University of Bordeaux ( co-directors , Dr D B Cruise O'Brien and Dr C Coulon ) with a multi-disciplinary team of nine scholars : four British and five French . |
| 28 | To this end some consultative procedure is to be recommended . |
| 29 | Given this overall approach it was clear that the question of the so-called worker-peasant alliance was to be one of the main economic , social and political problems in the period that lay ahead . |
| 30 | This all-enfolding system was to be thoroughly metaphysical and consistently rational . |