Example sentences of "[adv] they are [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they are campaigning to be allowed to take their pet cat with them . |
| 2 | The big difference is that before they just slipped into a publication schedule , whereas now they are going to be ‘ published ’ . |
| 3 | Today they are asking to be heard — even on such an explosive subject as the war in Arabia . |
| 4 | The British Army knows when they send troops here they are going to be targets . |
| 5 | If ever they lose the ability to scavenge energy , and put it to use in repairing their own fabric , then they are said to be dead ; and they begin immediately to fall apart . |
| 6 | There 's none of the rigorous logic and choreographed confusion of real farce , and director Jude Kelly labours under the mistaken impression that if the characters rush around and shout a lot , then they are bound to be funny . |
| 7 | It has been suggested that , if a researcher is not sometimes surprised at what they observe , then they are failing to be as open-minded as they should . |
| 8 | If he uses the ruler to transfer a measurement from one piece of his work to another then they are going to be identical ; accuracy of the ruler does n't come into it . |
| 9 | Well , if they think they are going to follow me into the Multivite/Singletons First Division when I take over at Titford Polymers , then they are going to be bloody disappointed . |
| 10 | Its Hong Kong spokesman , Alan Rogers , said : ‘ If the Chinese were upset before then they are going to be very upset now . ’ |
| 11 | Consequently they are said to be only suitable for the rarified world of HQ where men with no ‘ bottle ’ and the non-combatants have fled . |
| 12 | Instead they are designed to be ‘ read ’ in the following way . |
| 13 | They never get a day off , nobody thinks of letting them go off on a training course , they never get the chance to keep up and yet they are expected to be the fount of all knowledge . |