Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] is to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Broadly speaking , the higher an individual is in the social strata the less likely he or she is to be arrested , prosecuted and ( if prosecuted ) found guilty . |
| 2 | The leader or high priest(ess) is chosen for the quality of psychic power exhibited , and how open he or she is to the life-force . |
| 3 | The contents of the Church of Scotland ceremony and where it is to be held is entirely at the discretion of the minister . |
| 4 | And , of course , who it is for and where it is to be sent back to — facts which often seem to be forgotten . |
| 5 | It must be stated clearly for whom the grammar is written , and where it is to be used . |
| 6 | However , he learns to his anger and dismay that she is to be married . |
| 7 | SCREEN goddess Liz Taylor is furious that she is to be portrayed by Raquel Welch , the star she dislikes more than any other , in a film . |
| 8 | This crowded historical panorama of war and the power of beauty describes the birth of Ayesha as the mortal daughter of noble Arabian parents but suggests in recounting her long training in mysticism under an Egyptian priest and her guardianship of the Fire of Immortality in the shrine at Kôr that she is to be regarded in part as a spiritual being . |
| 9 | Although it is to Christianity that we owe our modern temporal orientation , it is to the Romans that we are mainly indebted for the form of our calendar and conventions of time recording . |
| 10 | Although it is to be used , filled out , and completed by one carrier only , its layout resembles that of air waybills whose text is flexible enough to include references to combined transport shipments . |
| 11 | History teaching has undergone many developments in the last three decades and no doubt change will continue although it is to be hoped that the pace of that change may diminish . |
| 12 | And , although it is to be officially unveiled next month , there is already a waiting list of local people eager to be treated with it . |
| 13 | Faragher ( 1985 ) found that police in Great Britain downgraded the seriousness of violence against women in the home , for although formal regulations state that it is to be treated as an arrestable offence , policemen often redefined the incident as lying outside law enforcement ( emphasized by Policy Studies Institute 1983b : 64 ) . |
| 14 | Tabasco is so well known that it is to pepper sauces what Hoover is to vacuum cleaners . |
| 15 | Yet there is no sign that it is to be applied . |
| 16 | A complainant would have to show that fewer women than men could comply with such a requirement and that it is to her detriment that she can not comply . |
| 17 | He did this so effectively that it is to this day referred to as the Wallace Line . |
| 18 | Mercury One-to-One has also confirmed that it is to beta test the service before the launch , which is planned for this summer . |
| 19 | Beccaria starts by looking at the justification of the right to punish ; he concludes that it is to be found in the social contract whose central tenet he declares to be ‘ the greatest happiness of the greatest number ’ ( it is possible that he is responsible for originating this particular cliché ) . |
| 20 | And we must not forget that it is to a Public Relations expert that we owe the invention of traditional Irish coffee laced with Irish whiskey , which nobody will deny is a very great improvement on Irish coffee tout court . |
| 21 | It was a kind of verse at which he himself excelled — there are those who say that it is to be found just under the surface of some of his apparently " serious " poetry — and Old Possum 's Book of Practical Cats has the spirit , if not the content , of the Bolovian stanzas which he had been writing since his early twenties . |
| 22 | The caveat , to state it simply , is that it is to be taken as a view of only our conception of what can be called standard effects : all those where the effects are not decisions , choices , like mental acts of persons , or ensuing actions . |
| 23 | ( 1.3 ) The possible argument consists in the premiss ( 1 ) that decisions and the like are taken to be effects but also to be no more than events which follow on conditions which are required for them , the further premiss ( 2 ) that it is to be presumed that we have a single conception of effects rather than several , and the conclusion ( 3 ) that all effects , including what have been called standard effects , are merely events preceded by conditions required for them . |
| 24 | A central feature of Goffmann 's approach to non-verbal behaviour is his assumption that it is to be visualised against the background of institutional norms which create the salient facts of social life . |
| 25 | For instance , in some intuitive , non-technical sense of ‘ probable ’ , we may be prepared to assert that it is to some degree probable that a very heavy smoker will die of lung cancer . |
| 26 | ‘ it was an unusual opportunity , to put it at its lowest , and that it is to be inferred from the evidence that it was one which was of particular interest to the Perot family . |
| 27 | The defence has been considered in a number of recent cases in which it has been held that it is to be applied in a flexible and pragmatic way . |
| 28 | Those who during the week at Lake Nona took the opportunity to ask questions about the running of America 's LPGA circuit , are convinced that it is to the players ' advantage that they leave the running of the association to its staff while they themselves concentrate on their golf . |
| 29 | He claimed that it was more accurate than any that had been made before , and there is a strong possibility that it is to be identified with the map which appears in the 1535 English Bible of Miles Coverdale [ q.v . ] . |
| 30 | It seems entirely possible that it is to this period — roughly from 873/1468 ( or perhaps earlier ) to 878/1473–4 — that the Muftilik of Abdulkerim belongs , that he succeeded Fahreddin Acemi on the latter 's death and must then later have resigned or been removed from the Muftilik , perhaps to make way for Molla Husrev when he returned from Bursa . |