Example sentences of "they [be] to be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Pakistan bowlers have added a new dimension to bowling — one that needs to be carefully noted by other countries if they are to be equally successful swingers of the old ball . ’ |
| 2 | Informal groups should be organized on the basis of free self-expression if they are to be most helpful . |
| 3 | Children are more likely to obtain jobs in the class bracket of their fathers than they are to be socially mobile . |
| 4 | Indeed , if performance criteria are to be national , if they are to have currency throughout the system , and if they are to be as detailed and specific as the proponents of criterion-referenced testing insist , then this reform presages central intervention in the school curriculum of a most emphatic kind . |
| 5 | The word ‘ strategy ’ , or indeed , ‘ management ’ , for example , implies that choices are available ; and choices , if they are to be rationally defensible , must be made by reference to known and accepted principles . |
| 6 | As with the Merseyside Task Force , they were to be primarily concerned with project development and not with issues of strategy . |
| 7 | But if the Conservative Party thought that it was cornering the market in citizenship , they were to be quickly disillusioned . |
| 8 | Part of the difficulty with the image came from the noisy fears of the critics , especially those who insisted that comprehensive schools would , if they were to be as good as grammar schools , have to be huge . |