Example sentences of "be [adv] to be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The feeling is growing that we should get our act together smartly if we are not to be left gongless at the end of a less deserving queue . |
| 2 | ‘ I had to get one , ’ he explained , ‘ because they 're about to be made illegal . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I had to get one , ’ he explained , ‘ because they 're about to be made illegal . ’ |
| 4 | They are also to be found near to towns and some holiday resorts in South East England where many of the perhaps 70,000 residential caravans are located . |
| 5 | Our colleagues thus are now to be found participating and observing in villages and urban enclaves in Britain and America as well as on the ski-slopes of Europe , and are also making forays into factories , prisons and hospitals to see whether they can produce more interesting and unexpected findings than those already provided by other techniques of research . |
| 6 | This would include the opportunity of subsidised housing and , if this were not to be made available immediately , then additional general welfare or family benefits would be made available to pay for accommodation as necessary . |
| 7 | Naturally there were protests from some ILEA teachers of languages , history , geography , home economics and physical education that their subjects were not to be made compulsory in the fourth and fifth years : such subjects , it was held , were thereby accorded a lower status . |
| 8 | But even there they were not to be left alone , and after the last campaign the conquest ended ignominiously as it had begun with the summary execution of Tupac Amaru , thirty-nine years after Atahualpa , his uncle . |
| 9 | The mines were dangerous , the mines were not to be left open as an invitation to any foolhardy visitor . |
| 10 | ERCO were soon to be kept busy producing war materials , and it was not until August 1945 that production of the Ercoupe resumed . |
| 11 | For the time being , the dogs were still to be kept separate at night , when left at home alone , or unsupervised . |
| 12 | A judge should only find a child guilty of contributory negligence if he or she is of such an age as reasonably to be expected to take precautions for his or her own safety ; and then he or she is only to be found guilty if blame should be attached to him or her . |
| 13 | The hon. Gentleman asked first why the assessment credit , the skill check credit , is not to be made available to unemployed people . |
| 14 | ( d ) Liabilities Under the Partnership Act a new partner is not to be made responsible for liabilities of the firm accrued before he joins . |
| 15 | If anyone is ever to be held responsible for the steerable revolution , it has to be one of these two eccentric personalities . |
| 16 | The products of much of its observation work , including aerial photography , is also to be made available to researchers . |
| 17 | A vast and ordinarily unnoticed area of the history of the arts is the development of systems of social signals that what is now to be made available is to be regarded as art . |
| 18 | These in turn become massively overdetermined , regenerative and self-justifying , creating an institutional mind which , although allegedly acting on behalf of society and the majority population , comes to regard that same group as outsiders and potential antagonists who are never to be accorded easy access to the processes of the organization . |
| 19 | One of the corpses was that of a local youth , the other that of an English girl , Gail Benson , who had come to the West Indies as the slavish lover of an American Negro , Hakim Jamal , ‘ God ’ to his friends , who was eventually to be shot dead in Boston . |
| 20 | The official exchange rate , was henceforth to be adjusted weekly in line with the prevailing market rate . |
| 21 | In no way did we want a union type association , it was all to be kept low key and friendly , which suited both ourselves and our administration , for we already had an official union which catered for the needs of the Customs and Excise in general . |
| 22 | In this I was happily to be proved wrong , but who could have known that at the time ? |