Example sentences of "that [pos pn] [noun] be [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 I speak from the heart here , as it so happens that my sister is to be married this month and my mother is trying her hardest to organise the wedding that we ( never mind my sister and fiancé , these things are family affairs ) , want .
2 The school authorities decided that my diet was to be strictly supervised , and that I should be weighed every week .
3 In the spring of 1932 , when I was ten years old , we heard rumours that my father was to be transferred to Italy .
4 Then I thought it might be an in-body experience — that my soul was to be confined to my body for some sinister theological reason. ,
5 At the Dixie Dude Ranch near the town of Bandera in the Texas hill country it was clear that my arrival was to be the excuse for a night out .
6 Though Hobson argued that the new imperialism was irrational from the standpoint of the peaceful commercial nation , he did not believe that its source was to be found merely in an irrational aggressiveness on the part of peoples or Governments .
7 The Mandal report was shelved by successive Congress ( I ) governments during the 1980s and V. P. Singh 's announcement in early August that its recommendations were to be implemented startled all sections of Indian society .
8 A second objection is that where both parties carry on business in Contracting States they can reasonably be subjected to the Convention automatically since it forms part of their national law , whereas parties carrying on business in different non-Contracting States who agree that their contract is to be governed by the law of a third State which is a Contracting State may well have in mind only the domestic law of that State and arguably ought not to be bound by the Convention unless they contract into it .
9 Ultimately , if a journal editor is to be a gatekeeper of scientific knowledge , procedures must be in place to assure both readers and authors that their work is to be taken seriously .
10 This disparity between the evidence available to major capitalists and the beliefs they hold suggests , according to Miller , that their beliefs are to be explained in the following way :
11 Now , however , the unfortunate residents of Mer have learned that their village is to be the site of a huge new quarry which would clearly make it unsuitable for exploitation as a centre of tourism .
12 Their permeable skins , however , still dictate that their surroundings are to be moist if the animals are to avoid death by desiccation .
13 This irony was only accentuated by the refugees ' initial belief that their exile was to be brief , a few days perhaps , at most a month , after which — in the manner of other civilians who had abandoned their homes in the midst of battle — they would return to their houses and fields to resume the life which had been interrupted by war .
14 In that lovely euphemism , frequently employed at such times , the theatre has announced that his contract is to be terminated ‘ … by mutual consent ’ .
15 In February the commander of the Border Guard announced that his forces were to be cut from 22,000 to 9,000 over the following five years .
16 The limit to which the RCM was prepared to go in this matter was revealed in March 1939 , when Grunpeter was told that his salary was to be held to £2 a week , a sum ‘ which will make it impossible to continue my work at the camp as resident minister ’ .
17 How would he act if he knew that his career was to be made into fiction , to serve as an object lesson , and a name of opprobrium , to the generations that followed him ?
18 FILM cameraman Mike Benson , 42 , who is ‘ feeling pretty good ’ after two days trapped in a Hawaiian volcano , was told yesterday that his rescue is to be made into a film .
19 Amid the accolades , Joseph learnt that his people were to be sent as prisoners of war , by train , to Fort Leavenworth , eastern Kansas .
20 Mr Usta said he had come to London under the impression that his kidney was to be donated to one of the ‘ broker ’ brothers , Ata Nur Kuntar .
21 Since we shall have to be content with inexact knowledge we will not insist that our electron is to be found at a definite point but simply require that it is localised within an interval of space of length Ax .
22 As we began to climb there could be no doubt that our destination was to be some place in the hills .
23 I believe therefore that our music is to be recognized by its melodies , and that it is highly important that they be distinctive , with clear-cut , decisive shapes .
24 As you are aware we will not be receiving all of the Grant that we have applied for this year and have been told by the Sports Council that our Grant is to be reduced over the next 3 years and then cease .
25 But I would of thought that your solicitor was to be here to represent you .
26 And I would have thought that your solicitor was to be here to represent you .
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