Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [noun] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is indicated in Layton 's references to the views of science on the one hand in terms of ‘ the disinterested pursuit of truth ’ , and on the other , particularly by those involved in the Great Exhibition , as ‘ the producer for the industrial market place ( so that science was to be studied for the economic benefits it would yield ) ’ . |
| 2 | That can mean only that UKIAS was to be made the exclusive provider of legal advice . |
| 3 | Anyway — Fjortoft put in a nice little goal for Norway last night — so if Frank is to be in contention ( ? ) he will have to beat Dino or Wallace for a place during this winter — which is not — that — probable . |
| 4 | So if things are to be done quickly , an approach able to look without let or hindrance at problems , even the most deep-seated , is needed : to define them in the clearest terms : to suggest alternative ways to solutions : finally , to seek resources for those solutions . |
| 5 | So if Zurich is to be the centre of your Swiss exploration , be sure to book a hotel well in advance . |
| 6 | In 1911 the inaugural conference of the National Council of Public Morals ( NCPM ) announced that prevention rather than punishment was to be the keynote in the regeneration of the nation 's moral life . |
| 7 | Thus if leadership is to be practised throughout the organisation then it has to be consistent with political objectives and compatible with the role of the politician . |
| 8 | Thus if A is to be pos. def. , the theorem requires that |
| 9 | Thus if goods are to be paid for within two months of delivery and are delivered on 5 October , they must be paid for by close of business — or midnight ? — on 5 December , the day of delivery being excluded from the two-month period ( Webb v Fairmainer ( 1838 ) 3 M & W 473 ) . |
| 10 | Thus if mining was to be stopped throughout Mayo , it had to be stopped here first . |
| 11 | Thus if trustees are to be changed during a tax year in order to export the trusts overseas , only gains made after the end of the tax year ( 5 April ) in which the export took place would be gains made by a foreign trustee ; gains made on or before 5 April would be taxable upon the trustees in the normal way as gains made by UK trustees . |
| 12 | New employees will need to start work as soon as the move has taken place and training plans must be initiated straight away if staff are to be effective quickly . |
| 13 | In Arenson v Casson Beckman Rutley & Co [ 1975 ] 3 WLR 815 an agreement provided that shares in a private company had to be sold back to the plaintiff 's uncle on the plaintiff leaving the business ; the price of the shares was to be the fair value as determined by the company 's auditors , whose valuation acting as experts and not as arbitrators was to be final and binding on all parties . |
| 14 | Thus ‘ gay is to straight not as copy is to original , but , rather , as copy is to copy ’ ( p. 31 ) . |
| 15 | Just as Paris was to be linked to the sea via the Seine estuary after Philip 's conquest of Normandy , so the emergent capital of Capetian France was brought into a closer relationship to the wealth of the Low Countries through the absorption of Artois . |
| 16 | Just as Greek was to him a ‘ sacred language ’ , so ‘ every Baptist place should be Grecian , never Gothic ’ . |
| 17 | This triangle is established by finding the intersection B of circles centred on O and A with radii in the same proportion to and respectively as OA is to . |
| 18 | These attitudes are fundamental to a Christian view of life , and the opportunity to develop such cognitive skills is to be viewed positively if pupils are to be helped to make their own informed and reasoned act of adult faith . |
| 19 | Empirical statements concerning spatial and/or temporal order e.g. that x is to the left of y , or above y , or that it precedes yin a time series , etc. — do not involve attribution of certain purely intrinsic properties to x or toy , i.e. properties that might be described as part of their essential description ( qua self-subsistent ontological entities ) . |
| 20 | They add : " In any case , there is always a degree of uncertainty about outcomes at the beginnings of a new initiative , when alternatives are imprecisely mapped out and staff are to be engaged in a process of critical reflection . |
| 21 | As modern weathering masks many of these textures , petrographic studies are best carried out on subsurface samples wherever possible , particularly if samples are to be chemically analysed later . |
| 22 | Although the two men rode together to Granada , Rodrigo made the mistake of pitching his tents closer than Alfonso 's to the walls of the city . |
| 23 | Yet if children are to be taught a love of literature and language , they surely need to be inspired by those whose love of literature and language is apparent and infectious . |
| 24 | In the event that it is apparent that the case will , in fact , be contested , either because liability is to be denied or because the parties are too far apart in their assessment of the issues in dispute , now is the appropriate time to consider what further evidence is required for the Proof and whether the evidence that is available is adequate and sufficient for its purpose . |
| 25 | He was worshipped then for his talent and untimely death — perhaps a little as Eliot was to be worshipped , in the 1940s and '50s , for his saintly abstention from the world . |