Example sentences of "[pron] is [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a small disturbance early yesterday , it emerges , at the famous entrance which is soon to be closed by Mrs Thatcher 's ornamental security gates . |
| 2 | Over the past 18 months more than 10 cases have come to light , one of which is soon to be pursued in court . |
| 3 | Can you manage to stick to a weight-loss programme when you have defined a time period , i.e. the three weeks until your holiday , or if you have to fit into certain clothes for a special occasion which is soon to be upon you , and do you generally find it difficult to stick to a diet for a longer period |
| 4 | Does my hon. Friend agree that our achievements in that aspect of education could not be better illustrated than by that which pertains in Nottinghamshire , where the university now has the highest ratio of applications to available places and where Nottingham polytechnic , which is soon to be a university , is planning to increase its capacity over the next couple of years to 16,000 student places ? |
| 5 | He is an expert in Package Dyeing ; a method which is soon to be introduced to the dyehouse as part of the new expansion scheme . |
| 6 | The new surgery was built though , inside a former psychiatric hospital , which is soon to be closed altogether . |
| 7 | In place of a fall from grace which is ultimately to be followed by a return to Paradise , we have the notion that mankind originally evolved out of a sub-human stage of bestiality . |
| 8 | There was also the possibility of a more flexible use of facilities in the statutory , voluntary and private sectors , and , finally , the powerful influence of doctors over the lives of the chronically disabled would inevitably wane , a process of ‘ de-medicalization ’ which is largely to be welcomed as medical and nursing skills are only a small part of the required professional skills . |
| 9 | And she 'll get all I have , which is n't to be sneezed at . ’ |
| 10 | Those who have been waiting for the newly published syllabus for Part 2 , which is also to be run at Greenhill starting in the Autumn on Thursdays from 9.30am to 12.30pm , should contact the tutor , Sybil Kenton . |
| 11 | One thesis I am arguing for claims that authoritative reasons are pre-emptive : the fact that an authority requires performance of an action is a reason for its performance which is not to be added to all other relevant reasons when assessing what to do , but should exclude and take the place of some of them . |
| 12 | If we decide , in the case of the baptism study , that we must carry out fieldwork to collect data which is not to be found in already published sources we must consider how best to utilize what resources we have . |
| 13 | Professor Mark Roberts , speaking from the centre of the critical consensus , declared : ‘ It does n't issue from an understanding of reality which is not to be denied , it is not moulded by some controlling vision of things which is at the same time its raison d'être . ’ |
| 14 | Every mental phenomenon is characterized by what the Scholastics of the Middle Ages called the intentional ( or mental ) inexistence of an object , and what we might call , though not wholly unambiguously , reference to a content , direction toward an object ( which is not to be understood here as meaning a thing ) , or immanent objectivity . |
| 15 | They may be liberal , but there is a certain minimum reference to a particular history , above all to a certain person , which is not to be avoided if one is to call oneself Christian . |
| 16 | To permit the ex turpi causa defence to be relied upon as an answer to such a claim would , in my view , narrow to a substantial extent the deliberately wide wording of section 6(1) of the Act of 1978 and would , in effect , make a claim for contribution subject to a condition precedent which is not to be found in the Act . |
| 17 | Under section 89(2) and ( 3 ) the company may allot shares in accordance with that provision which is not to be treated as inconsistent with section 89(1) within the meaning of section 91 . |
| 18 | Each candidate may therefore make 2 attempts but must put a line through the Postage Book form which is not to be marked . |
| 19 | Excluded property which is not to be included in the estate of a person ( which means the aggregate of all the property to which that person is beneficially entitled including settled property in which he has an interest in possession ) immediately before his death embraces for CTT purposes : ( a ) settled property situated outside the United Kingdom unless the settlor was domiciled in the United Kingdom at the time the settlement was made ; and ( b ) securities issued by the Treasury subject to the condition that they shall be exempt from taxation while in the beneficial ownership of persons neither domiciled nor ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom provided in the case of settled property either that such . |
| 20 | Next , the tenant 's adviser should ensure that there is a minimum turnover figure , which is not to be taken into account in assessing the rent , and possibly a maximum figure above which turnover is ignored . |
| 21 | The controversial duo , last seen performing with Extreme Noise Terror at the BPI awards in February , offered the following statement to NME : ‘ Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond left for Mexico City on May 5 to research a non-music project , the nature of which is yet to be disclosed . ’ |
| 22 | A beautiful Cirrhilabrus from Fiji which is yet to be named , but had been dubbed the ‘ Shimmering Parrot Wrasse ’ . |
| 23 | The card , which is yet to be named , will be launched later this year . |
| 24 | It will then switch to a new design , which is yet to be decided . |
| 25 | ARCHAEOLOGISTS in Devon are recording the 5,000-year history of a valley which is about to be flooded to form one of Britain 's largest reservoirs . |
| 26 | It would obviously be daft to organise in an area which is about to be kicked out of the state . |
| 27 | IT IS as well that the five-point try , which is about to be introduced by the International Rugby Board , did not apply when an assortment of stars drawn from eight countries , calling themselves a World XV , displayed their skills in the seaside town of Timaru , South Canterbury , yesterday , against a Hanan Shield XV — winning 74–3 . |
| 28 | A company , which is about to be struck off the Company Register under s 562 CA 1985 , has share capital and distributable reserves balanced by cash . |
| 29 | It has new modules for Sceptre and Senator ; it is collaborating with another unnamed software house on a broking evaluation product , which is about to be tested . |
| 30 | It does n't really matter , as long as you end up with copies other than in the subdirectory which is about to be burned . |