Example sentences of "[be] to [be] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our response to recession must simply be to be more determined , focused and innovative . |
| 2 | The dilemma which arose from the modern sculptor , was summed up by Marion Spielmann in British Sculptors and Sculptors of Today ( 1901 ) ‘ The present aim is to give life without actual realism — a suggestion of reality shrouded in poetry and grace … our artists understand that if the figures are to be more like the human form the statues must be unconscious of their absence of drapery as though they were symbols — which indeed they are ’ . |
| 3 | If we are to be more specific , we must compare one particular type of indirect tax system with one particular type of direct tax system . |
| 4 | Equally , if farmers are to be more subject to market forces , the planning system must be flexible and sensitive enough to enable farmers to diversify . |
| 5 | From that time the influences were to be more European than English or colonial . |
| 6 | Or rather , they laid down specific principles that were to be more or less taken for granted by subsequent positivists . |
| 7 | The structure plans then provided a framework for local plans , which were to be more detailed strategies prepared at district level . |
| 8 | These were to be more densely populated and smaller areas than the national parks , but areas still requiring special protection . |
| 9 | I only comment that , at a time when Community law is becoming increasingly important , it would be strange if the right of the citizen to recover overpaid charges were to be more restricted under domestic law than it is under European law . |
| 10 | But Kokoschka and Kraus were to be more comfortable in Berlin , and Loos 's principles were only to be realized on a major scale by the Bauhaus architects . |
| 11 | It is a paradox too , that because Christianity has been able to drop any mention of the physical cycles of women 's lives , secular culture has ended up with an idea that true liberation means we can forget ‘ those difficult days ’ , and ‘ carry on as normal ’ ; assuming , perhaps , that to be normal is to be more like a man . |
| 12 | ‘ To grow older for a woman is to be more and more wrapped in fog . ’ |
| 13 | One way is to be more specific about the expected effects of internal markets . |
| 14 | The task for the NHS developer is to be more careful in evaluating learning and to make the findings more visible to policy-makers . |
| 15 | But the infancy of these chicks is to be more complicated than most . |
| 16 | In contrast to the reactions from doctors and nutritionists on the publication of previous healthy eating reports , this time the plan is to be more positive towards it . |
| 17 | But , in fact , the delegation was to be more successful than Manners ' remarks revealed at the time . |
| 18 | They were to tutor the child who refused to attend school , but there was to be more to it than that . |
| 19 | Its method of integration was to be more gradual , retaining for long the right of national veto . |
| 20 | Its significance was to be more for the racial nationalist tradition and the development of non-Mosley fascism after the Second World War . |
| 21 | In much of this material there was little attempt to relate such antipathy and prejudice to a consistent and coherent theory of behaviour , but the assumption and arguments on which it was based can be seen as the origins of a racial nationalist ideology which was to be more rigorously formulated at a later date . |
| 22 | It was to be more than two years before I saw Paris again . |
| 23 | Throughout the 1870s inspectors advised Guardians on means of cutting expenditure : in particular there was to be more stringent investigation of applicants for and recipients of out-door relief . |
| 24 | Here Britain 's involvement was to be more significant , but still very modest indeed for a nation which in 1960 was far ahead of the rest of western Europe in space . |
| 25 | It was to be more than five years before they were able to lead a normal married life . |
| 26 | Not only do they represent the first substantial draft of much of the material that was to be more fully worked out there . |
| 27 | The question of the birth rate was to be more crucial in the years after the Education Act , in the debates around the Royal Commission on Population , which reported in 1948–49 , but the existence of the commission itself from 1943 demonstrates public and official concern with such ideas in the first few years of the war . |
| 28 | The new establishment was to be more durable than the experiment envisaged by Athaulf and attempted by Constantius and Aëtius , where a traditional Roman government was supported by barbarian arms . |