Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is nowhere stated that the ground which had been occupied was to be abandoned , but that was the result . |
| 2 | Here lay Mount Edgcombe House , which the Spanish Admiral , the Duke of Medina-Sidonia , had been promised was to be his . |
| 3 | The fundamental relationship upon which the economic , social , and political structure of the Empire had been based was to be dismantled . |
| 4 | One way in which probabilistic models are employed is to progressively classify the input based on predecessors and move along , using this information as the predecessor for the next element in the input . |
| 5 | One question which will be examined is to what extent increased computerisation and automation of various aspects of the business might be part of such a strategy . |
| 6 | ‘ If the right to be heard is to be a real right which is worth anything , it must carry with it a right in the accused man to know the case which is made against him . ’ |
| 7 | This includes Schenk , despite her stated belief in the essentially ironic character of wisdom literature ; a belief which seems to imply that the best lesson one can ever be taught is to be cynical ( which might , sadly , be true ) . |
| 8 | Similarly , the description of the conventions regarding the form of language to be used are to be interpreted more as a parody and critique of the rival Academy than as evidence of what members of the Royal Society really did . |
| 9 | So convinced are such people that to be impaired is to ‘ die ’ that no amount of protestation to the contrary seems to make any difference . |
| 10 | Garland ( 1985a ) notes three themes in their programme : reform , prevention — and extinction ; those who could not be reformed were to be eliminated . |
| 11 | And to be feared is to be somebody . |
| 12 | The area to be distributed was to be set by individual republics . |
| 13 | Already the various structural elements in Nizan 's psychology are becoming apparent : a brooding sense of death nurtured in his formative months and years as an infant and as a child ; a childhood admiration for the values and life-style of his father , a man exuding certainty , conviction and power , a man involved in the practical problems of everyday existence ; a corresponding indifference for the seemingly hollow existence of his mother preoccupied with family duties , social functions and religious rites ; an implicit recognition that the path to be followed was to be located somewhere in the dynamic working-class origins of his father rather than in the passive middle-class origins of his mother ; a sense of loneliness as a child compensated by a deeply experienced relationship with his father , an idol , the source of knowledge and truth . |
| 14 | To be governed is to be subjected to the regular pressure of an authority operating according to fixed rules . |
| 15 | To be unmasked is to be unspirited as well as undone . |
| 16 | To be Wymanised is to be overcome by a feeling of nausea when an excess of Wyman is forced upon you . |
| 17 | The activities in which citizens are to be engaged are to be far removed from any levers of real political power . |
| 18 | But this is likely to be the first and last time Witney sees the Hungarian State Circus … in February , the town council , banned circus with animals from using its land … and Witney Town Council where the big top 's been pitched is to be redevloped … leaving no large town centre site . |
| 19 | Inspector Brian Jaggs , of Braintree police , said yesterday that according to the alarm company the only way the £8,000 car could have been taken was to be physically removed by trailer , and it was likely it was stolen to order . |
| 20 | ( c ) The sequence of instructions being executed is to be changed , so that the next instruction to be executed is not the one stored immediately after the instruction currently being executed . |
| 21 | THE FIGHT to prevent the rescue helicopters of RAF Leuchars in Fife being grounded is to be stepped up . |
| 22 | For socialists to champion the aspiration when there was no objective possibility of its being realized was to be both reactionary and utopian . |
| 23 | But immediately Hilton makes it clear that such a life-style involves an active life of its own if the peace that is sought is to be found , for it may not be had : This has been defined earlier as : Such an active component of spiritual endeavour is a concomitant of man 's temporal nature . |
| 24 | Changes in the way it 's run are to be discussed at a meeting tonight , but details are n't being revealed until then . |
| 25 | Attached documents and the actual rulings ordering that a letter rogatory be issued are to be supplied , but need not be translated . |
| 26 | Since under national legal systems it is usually stipulated that the place in which the association is established is to be the place of performance of obligations arising out of the act of becoming a member , the application of article 5(1) of the Convention also has practical advantages : the court for the place in which the association has its seat is in fact usually the best fitted to understand the documents of constitution , rules and decisions of the association , and also the circumstances out of which the dispute arose . |
| 27 | Some political activists concluded from this that what was needed was to ‘ empower the poor ’ , encourage their civic and political participation as a way to redress the balance , give them the strength to organize in such a way as to make effective claims on society , to receive those citizen 's rights to which they were said to be entitled . |
| 28 | He 'd had his go , if all that was rumoured was to be believed . |
| 29 | Because the UK clearly benefited from the capping of VAT and the introduction of the new fourth resource , the basic amount to which the UK was entitled was to be adjusted to a " reference compensation amount " . |