Example sentences of "[conj] [be] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of importance at this stage is whether the technique merits wider and detailed comparative trials or is to good that such trials are not justified on ethical considerations or is so good that patient pressure is such that carefully controlled trials can not be mounted ( phase III ) . |
| 2 | Throughout the world there exist diseases caused by treponemes that are to all intents and purposes identical to Treponema pallidum yet which are not transmitted sexually and , in some cases , may coexist with syphilis in the community . |
| 3 | Then : Hence , the four fifths of the file loaded later contains 40.458 per cent of synonyms , and 59.542 per cent of home records ; the 20 per cent of all accesses to the file that are to these records will therefore be split in this proportion . |
| 4 | The taxpayers were assessed to Schedule E income tax for the years from 1983–84 to 1985–86 on the basis that under the concessionary scheme they had received benefits that were to treated as ‘ emoluments ’ of their employment under section 61 of the Act of 1976 , the cash equivalent of such benefit being chargeable to income tax in accordance with the provisions of section 63 of the Act . |
| 5 | Both include wilderness , an altogether more delicate asset that is to some degree marred by almost any human incursion . |
| 6 | He was , in so far as he underestimated the implications of one major disanalogy : he had no law that was to natural selection as the Newtonian inverse square law ( with proportionality to mass products ) was to gravitational attraction . |
| 7 | This is because the additional semantic traits normally carried by mare are already inferable from the rest of the sentence , and are to that degree superfluous . |
| 8 | Ley hunters today tend to think of leys purely as alignments and are to some extent dubious about Watkins 's idea of old straight tracks-though the South American paths do present a question mark here . |
| 9 | Other publications emanating from official enquiries , such as the French National Assembly 's postwar investigation of the events of the 1930s , may without being corrupt , nevertheless reflect special interests and be to that extent unrepresentative . |
| 10 | Her adherence to some of the beliefs has been inspired by and is to that extent under some pressure not amounting to undue pressure from her mother . |
| 11 | The contrast between professional norms and bureaucratic norms is a familiar theme in the literature on professions , and is to some extent exemplified in the ambiguous relationship between academics and administrators in higher education itself . |
| 12 | First , spending on residential care in private sector homes for elderly people through the social security budget was rising at an exponential rate and was to all intents and purposes out of control , being demand led . |
| 13 | ( Hewitt 1989 : 138 ) But he goes on to say : while such Creole influences may have been more evident and highly focused ( Le Page 1975 ) in the speech of black youngsters , they were by no means restricted to black speakers but were to varying degrees evident also in the speech of white and ethnic minority youth other than Afro-Caribbean from the same localities . |
| 14 | Some of the barbarian federates are known to have understood their loyalty as being to Valentinian ; his death , therefore , absolved them from any treaty with the Empire . |
| 15 | Law and the legal system thus have to be seen in a differentiated way , no longer consistently structured by one uniform language and one common principle ( such as a hierarchy of values or a grundnorm ) , but as being to some extent split into a plurality of legal arenas ( Lowi , 1972 ) . |