Example sentences of "[coord] [det] [noun sg] be to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dad had left slightly more money than expected , and that money was to be divided equally between Nathan , Georgia and Rona , Rona 's share to be held in trust until she attained the age of eighteen . |
| 2 | For Tyndall , science claimed the unrestricted right to search even on dangerous ground ; like Goethe he believed that science ought to be lively , and that commotion was to be preferred to stagnation , the torrent to the swamp . |
| 3 | He declared that McIan Macdonald 's late submission was invalid and that vengeance was to be taken against his clan . |
| 4 | The terms of the agreement were as follows : that political prisoners were to be released and the relevant ordinances withdrawn ; that civil disobedience was to be stopped ; that the boycott of British goods would cease , though ‘ peaceful picketing ’ could continue ; that there would be no change in the salt laws , though people living by the sea could make some for personal consumption ; and that Congress was to be represented at future sessions of the Round Table conference , the agreed agenda being federation , ‘ Indian responsibility ’ , and ‘ reservations or safeguards in the interests of India for such matters as , for instance , defence ; external affairs ; the position of minorities ; the financial credit of India , and the discharge of obligations ’ . |
| 5 | Hard work was to be accompanied by moral instruction and each convict was to be treated to a series of discussions with a qualified counsellor . |
| 6 | The message to emerge from this conference was one of liberation , from both spiritual and material bondage , and this liberation was to be achieved by the participation in the whole life of the church , not just church services . |
| 7 | And this impact is to be achieved in a particular way , i.e. through a ‘ profane illumination ’ brought about through the juxtaposition of two or more seemingly incongruous figures . |
| 8 | One well informed historian of the period believes that the Cabinet was in favour of retaining the death penalty by a majority of eleven to five , and this estimate was to be borne out in a vote in the Commons the following April . |
| 9 | Flanders , at the beginning of the war , was still the principal manufacturer of cloth made from English wool , although from the mid-fourteenth century more and more cloth was to be made in England . |
| 10 | The Wokingham Blacks grew more confident , but that complacency was to be their undoing . |
| 11 | The rate of tax payable is arrived at by reference to the total of that value and the value of any previous chargeable transfers made by the beneficiary , but that value is to be reduced by the value of any other interest in possession in the property to which he becomes entitled at the same time or by the amount of any consideration in money or money 's worth which he has received in respect of the termination or disposal of the interest . |
| 12 | But this problem is to be tackled by improving and extending our theories and not by recording an endless list of aimless observations . |
| 13 | The sociology of knowledge was deemed to have a role in grasping the social basis of knowledge but this task was to be clearly distinguished from any comment on the validity of knowledge . |
| 14 | Personal preference naturally varies but more benefit is to be gained by having a reasonable breakfast and lunch and a smaller evening meal ( even though most of us are used to doing it the other way around ) . |