Example sentences of "be to be a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if a supplier has agreed to deliver a computer system and the contract states that the terminals are to be a deep yellow colour but , instead , he delivers a computer with lemon coloured terminals , this will amount to a breach of warranty unless there is some special reason why the deep yellow colour was specified . |
| 2 | Third , a labour division of the High Court would contribute to the process of constitutional reform in Britain which surely is to be a key political issue in the 1990s . |
| 3 | PRINCE 's next LP is to be a 16-track double album , according to sources at his Minneapolis label Paisley Park . |
| 4 | Enfield was to be a low-to medium-volume plant , with a new product start-up capability which would lead the business in technology , design , testing , sourcing , quality and competitive superiority . |
| 5 | There was to be a new national Goods and Services Tax ( GST ) of 9 per cent on most goods and services to take effect Jan. 1 , 1991 , replacing the existing Federal Manufacturers ' Sales Tax . |
| 6 | The most obvious , though inadequate , analogy I could think of for my situation was to be a light-skinned black person who identified with white people all her life , who had ‘ passed ’ as a white person for years and who had suddenly discovered the reality of Black Power . |
| 7 | The DEA 's quid pro quo was to be a huge money-laundering operation run , under Haser 's direction , by the Magharian brothers , Berkev and Jean , in Switzerland for Monzer al-Kassar . |
| 8 | If there was to be a common external policy , economic and strategic , which appeared more and more desirable , as between the parliamentarily self-governing populations around the world that were deemed all to be parts of one empire , the logical but crazy conclusion must be to defy the impracticability that had been so clear in the eighteenth century and to envisage an imperial parliament . |
| 9 | What is certain is that Rolle 's own inner drive was to be a solitary contemplative and to use his experience in the service of others . |
| 10 | It was to be a modest little magazine devoted to telling London what was going on . |
| 11 | However , the need to maximize the anti-power sharing vote convinced both DUP and Vanguard to instruct their followers to vote for the other party as their second or third preference in what was to be a single transferable vote type of proportional representation election . |
| 12 | If the help available was to be a free good then , in the USA , there would be a considerable amount of stigma attached to recipients of it . |
| 13 | Of these , the first , Type 1 , was the most important ; it was to be a large multi-engine landplane capable of flying from London to New York non-stop . |
| 14 | Edward had won over the industrial towns of Flanders in 1340 , and the maintenance of the English position there was to be a basic strategic principle until its decisive failure in 1385 . |