Example sentences of "[adv] [det] be to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps that is to be expected in a market in which ‘ art ’ largely collapsed into ‘ investment ’ , and in which artists were happy to take a slice of the action . |
| 2 | Perhaps this is to be expected , as Edis was already skilled as a studio photographer . |
| 3 | Soon this was to be entered and then only Tibet and Ethiopia would remain for a time unresponsive to European politics , ideas and technology . |
| 4 | Not much is to be gained by unison doubling except in passages where the G string is in use . |
| 5 | Although sheep numbers in Sussex have now risen to nearly pre-war numbers , comparatively few are to be found on permanent downland pasture . |
| 6 | But as we shall see , even this is to be questioned . |
| 7 | His mood of self-satisfaction was far from justified in terms of social and economic realities , but even these were to be turned into personal triumphs for Franco in the course of the next two decades . |
| 8 | How that is to be done necessitates an explanation that can not be other than labyrinthine . |
| 9 | A school has to decide what kind of organization it is ( a factory , a work community , a market-place ? ) , who its customers are , what they want and how that is to be delivered and measured . |
| 10 | Attention focused chiefly on strengthening the " European pillar " of the military alliance , although members failed to agree on how precisely this was to be achieved . |
| 11 | Sometimes this was to be done with the aid of a department or institution studentship or scholarship . |
| 12 | If ‘ science ’ ( the relativist might well be inclined to use quotation marks ) is highly regarded in our society , then this is to be understood by analysing our society , and not simply by analysing the nature of science . |
| 13 | How this is to be done , and what ye all have to do , I will leave in the hands of the Bishop Don Hieronymo , and Alvar Fañez , and Pero Bermudez . |
| 14 | But Althusser 's own account does not make it clear how this is to be done . |
| 15 | If the claim that they all legitimate the existing order is to be more than a dogma it must be refined , and Althusser 's work offers no suggestion as to how this is to be done . |
| 16 | He uses an example to explain how this is to be done . |
| 17 | But it is a relatively complex judgement , and , like entailment , will probably prove to be derivable from more elementary intuitions ( e.g. from patterns of normality and abnormality ) , although it is not at present clear how this is to be done . |
| 18 | For in his analyses of the classes of capitalism he resorts to purposive terminology , without giving any hint of how this is to be understood except in an everyday , voluntarist manner . |
| 19 | Details indicating how this is to be made must now be entered into the engineering file . |
| 20 | The literature of the last few years is thronged with papers proposing that these must be taken into account — but with few realistic proposals on how this is to be achieved . |
| 21 | The assistant must thus be provided with detailed instructions on how this is to be achieved . |
| 22 | It is investment like any other business investment , and it should be clear what it is intended to achieve , and how this is to be measured . |
| 23 | The treaty does not define how this is to be interpreted geographically . |
| 24 | I ask you , gentlemen , to consider how this is to be accomplished . ’ |
| 25 | There was little elaboration as to how this was to be achieved , save occasional guidance notes ; otherwise there was reliance on the all-embracing , but rather vague idea of protecting ‘ amenity ’ ( Punter , 1987 ) . |
| 26 | Although he did not specify how this was to be achieved , he promised not to increase the unpopular goods and services consumption tax ( GST ) . |
| 27 | He failed always to understand that there was a large area of common ground in British public opinion on India which consisted in the belief that , with a few adjustments , British rule could be made , and remain , acceptable to Indians for ever , and that differences of opinion were to a considerable extent about how this was to be done . |
| 28 | He makes it clear in the dedication of the latter that voices and instruments were to be used now together , now separately ( ‘ per vocum et instrumentorum melodiam , tam conjuncte quam divisim ’ ) but not at all clear how this was to be done . |
| 29 | There was a particular dish , in those days something of a delicacy , which needed cutting into sections before serving , and the question was how this was to be done . |
| 30 | The Luxembourg session was represented as a " political agreement " and the subsequent Salzburg disagreement as reflecting different interpretations of how this was to be translated into concrete terms ; " on some outstanding questions the respective positions were converging , while on others further work remained necessary " . |