Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] is to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know , it 's much , it 's much easier to be nasty about something than it is to be nice about something . |
| 2 | This relationship , if it is to be helpful , must be informed , on our part , by an appropriate purpose , knowledge , self-awareness and clear , consistent boundaries . |
| 3 | Any attempt to inject market disciplines must take account of this essential feature of social care ( social work ) if it is to be constructive rather than destructive . |
| 4 | The culmination of its activity is at the kill , whereas a retriever needs to wait and relate closely to its owner , if it is to be successful at its task . |
| 5 | If it is to be successful in this objective it needs to articulate much more clearly the rival communitarian philosophy which one senses underpins its practical proposals . |
| 6 | People also need to like advertising if it is to be successful and , again , the results show that people did find the ads funny and enjoyed watching them . |
| 7 | But we are convinced that the housegroup group , if it is to be powerful in building people up for the fight , is the place for this . |
| 8 | To survive , a butterfly must get away from it — at least 25cm away if it is to be certain of living until morning . |
| 9 | Study , if it is to be effective , must be active and critical and not passive . |
| 10 | The exemption is a recognition of the desirability of spontaneity in certain circumstances ; where there are sudden events such as the ‘ release of pollutants , a traffic accident , a shipment of nuclear waste or a visit by a political leader , ’ the response to such events must be immediate if it is to be effective , and the giving of notice is in such circumstances not reasonably practicable . |
| 11 | All I can say to you is that if it is to be good news , it would give me more pleasure than I can say ; and if it is to be bad — I have gone through it , and Anne , and many others , and one does survive and go on , though you think you never will … |
| 12 | Negotiation should be a planned activity if it is to be efficient . |
| 13 | If it is to be profitable on the Hong Kong to Macau route , a craft has to operate in darkness as well as during the day . |
| 14 | If , as I have argued , thought and consciousness irreducibly escape the net of physicalist interpretation , and if , as I have suggested , the external world must possess the mind-like property of generality if it is to be conceivable , then we can see that Socrates ' assertion in the Phaedo , that the world must be explained by reference to mind , was essentially correct . |
| 15 | This is partly because its product , type , must be familiar if it is to be legible . |
| 16 | There must also be at least one director if the company is private , or two if it is to be public . |
| 17 | If a tax is to be fair , if it is to have the support of the people and if it is to be collectable , it must be based on the fundamental principle of ability to pay . |
| 18 | However , the evidence also suggests that information spillovers are more important in research than in development , and that a firm has to do quite a lot of its own R&D , if it is to be able to absorb information spillovers effectively . |
| 19 | A Lockean ‘ idea ’ is not just what a word stands for if it is to be meaningful . |
| 20 | All I can say to you is that if it is to be good news , it would give me more pleasure than I can say ; and if it is to be bad — I have gone through it , and Anne , and many others , and one does survive and go on , though you think you never will … |
| 21 | The deep-seated feeling that man 's nature is essentially structured to survive nomadically and that he needs to be on the move in some way if he is to be satisfied , is complemented by the mystics ' witness that true human fulfilment is the concomitant of what is experienced as a spiritual journey to a goal beyond time that is occasionally anticipated and known in time , the element within which our curiously mixed physical and spiritual natures cohere and mature . |
| 22 | The member of parliament did not give up his efforts to find a place for the young officer , but the close connection between parliamentary politics and placement was made abundantly clear by Scott 's insistence to his correspondent that the young man 's father , a Dundee councillor , would first have to make clear ‘ whether he is to be friendly ’ to the politician . |
| 23 | Interesting though it is to be aware of the way in which these various theological traditions bear fruit in the mystics ' accounts of their experience , it is important to remember that they can not fully account for this experience . |
| 24 | Bad as it is to be poor in Indian it 's worse to be as destitute as the street-children . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's as silly to laugh as it is to be scared . |
| 26 | It is as important to be ruthlessly clear about the underlying causes of success as it is to be analytical about the basic faults which have led to failure . |