Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [be] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If signs are to be effective for user orientation , they must be carefully planned with regard to position , content and presentation . |
| 2 | The country 's draft National Forestry Action Plan , drawn up with the help of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation , concluded that if Indonesia was to be self-sufficient in wood for its burgeoning paper industry , new pulpwood plantations would have to be developed . |
| 3 | This framework must change if action is to be effective . |
| 4 | If antiracism is to be effective in education , it is therefore necessary to take a hard and perhaps painful look at the terms under which we have operated so far . |
| 5 | According to Dr Moore , that is unrealistic if computers are to be able to recognise thousands of words . |
| 6 | But a degree of independence and impartiality will have to be achieved if re-investigation is to be beneficial . |
| 7 | It also suggests that this is vital if traders are to be convinced that trading across frontiers is no more strange than doing business with the shopkeeper next door . |
| 8 | If exercise is to be effective it must become as natural to us as breathing , eating , or cleaning our teeth . |
| 9 | Barnett will however know in his own mind that he has to replace the 2,000 runs scored by the departed Azharuddin if Derbyshire are to be effective challengers . |
| 10 | It is therefore essential , if costs are to be meaningful , that site and surveying staff accurately monitor the flow of materials to each cost centre . |
| 11 | If returners are to be able to comply with the desired outcomes as defined by the UKCC 's guidelines then the course offered would have to satisfy requirements set out in Table 4.2 . |
| 12 | If education is to be responsive and supportive to all children 's needs then schools must provide two things : |
| 13 | The experience of Cherry Willingham School suggests that several key strategies need to be included if LMS is to be successful with support staff . |
| 14 | If exclusion is to be permanent , the LEA 's decision on whether to order the pupil 's reinstatement is binding on the head teacher , although the governors may appeal against an LEA 's refusal to reinstate a permanently excluded pupil , using the same machinery which the LEA is required to establish for such appeals by parents ( and pupils if aged 18 or over ) . |
| 15 | The importance of diet in this group of patients is that for some diet alone will suffice , while for the rest there must be a good dietary compliance if control is to be optimal at a steady weight whether using oral agents or insulin . |
| 16 | New employees will need to start work as soon as the move has taken place and training plans must be initiated straight away if staff are to be effective quickly . |
| 17 | The students and her needs must be known to the ward staff if learning is to be effective . |
| 18 | Expectations have to be met if people are to be satisfied with their experience of a meeting . |
| 19 | And the believer agrees all too easily that he or she must indeed have this sort of proof if belief is to be possible . |
| 20 | Pessimistic in the sense that is says people are basically nasty , and if society is to be possible , then nastiness has to be controlled in some way or other , and since human nature is anti-social , social order comes about against the grain of human nature as a rule , has to be imposed on human nature . |
| 21 | It was the British proposals which , as much as anything , stalled Scandinavian discussions on a Nordic common market , for if Britain was to be fortunate in its attempt to forge something beyond the Europe of the Six , the Nordic states would have little choice other than to follow the British lead . |
| 22 | It seemed to her that if love was to be great it had to be paid for with a terrible price . |
| 23 | In commenting on the 1991 budget shortly before its final acceptance , the IMF was less critical than in the previous year [ see p. 37509 ] , but stressed that the following year would be crucial if Italy were to be capable of participating fully in European economic and monetary union . |
| 24 | If children are to be able to seek out opportunities for collaboration themselves , they need to understand the purposes which collaboration can serve . |
| 25 | Certainly , in so far as the problems and needs of the disadvantaged areas are concerned , a more task orientated approach is required if measures are to be successful . |
| 26 | if societies are to be viable , a number of basic conditions have to be achieved — a number of ‘ functional prerequisites ’ must be effectively satisfied ( e.g. reproduction of the species , socialisation of the young , etc . ) . |
| 27 | Owners naturally forget or feel sorry for the underdog , but experience has shown that dog/owner relations are all important if treatment is to be successful . |
| 28 | For example , we have already noted the argument ( and see Chapter 2 below ) that if semantics is to be truth-conditional , then the truth conditions can only be assigned to utterances , not sentences — in other words , contextual specifications are a necessary input to a semantic component , and thus pragmatics is ( at least in this respect ) 16 prior to semantics . |
| 29 | Poltoranin 's deputy , Mikhail Fedotov , became the new Press and Information Minister , but his brief was to be limited to registering and licensing new media and promoting freedom of speech , while Poltoranin was to be responsible for state-owned television and the press . |
| 30 | ‘ It is the community who should , in the main , determine whether police are to be involved in resolving community conflicts . ’ |