Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually they take about three weeks to make but a further nine months can elapse before brass-polishing is completed especially if they are to be exhibited before use . |
| 2 | especially if I were to actually get , if I get that I 'd consider going if I could get a place in the halls , the residence |
| 3 | This is the only valid state a DC can be in if it is to submitted for assessment by interested LIFESPAN users . |
| 4 | On the other hand , I am a girl who likes a bit of old-fashioned interest taken in her , and I do get cheesed when I have to take second place , especially when it 's to a dead widow of seventy-odd … ’ |
| 5 | People who have infected sores , such as boils or styes , or who have diarrhoeal conditions , should not prepare food , especially when it is to be distributed to large numbers . |
| 6 | He did this so effectively that it is to this day referred to as the Wallace Line . |
| 7 | Three years after publisher Robert Maxwell sacked twenty one journalists from the Pergamon Press company , it 's been announced tonight that they 're to be paid thousands of pounds in compensation.The deal brings to an end one of the longest runing disputes in British trade union history . |
| 8 | There 's a little tiny bit to tinker with , but it 's not if we were to , we , we 're canvassing at pressed about altering the length of the lunchtime break to break it down from an hour and a half and an hour and a quarter to an hour and a quarter to an hour which is being we would save some money on not paying our |
| 9 | They think the game is over and we are to be whipped off like hounds , back to Uncle . ’ |
| 10 | The two machines , one for Britain and one for France , were handed over and it was to be Bertrand 's responsibility to transport one to Paris and so on to London in the French diplomatic bag . |
| 11 | To survive , a butterfly must get away from it — at least 25cm away if it is to be certain of living until morning . |
| 12 | Even for low attainers projects are done individually if they are to be assessed . |
| 13 | It does not keep so well , so make and ice the cake shortly before it is to be eaten . |
| 14 | Keeping vegetables in the fridge , and preparing them just before they are to be cooked , helps preserve the vitamin content , too . |
| 15 | EC negotiator Ray MacSharry quit , claiming the Frenchman vetoed an accord just before it was to be signed on Tuesday . |
| 16 | The species of angler fish that lives in the Sargasso Sea is blotched and betasselled in a way that matches the floating sargassum weed so closely that the angler is virtually invisible to the eye of a human being , just as it is to that of a small fish , a shrimp or any other marine creature that might drift through the surface waters of that stagnant sea . |
| 17 | But it was clear to Marangos , just as it was to James , that the store openings and continuing publicity were creating a level of business which the financial resources of the company simply could not support . |
| 18 | Her religious sensibility is much nearer to that of the affective Franciscan devotion just as his is to the Dominican tradition of speculative thought . |
| 19 | The dates of these visits will be given to you as soon as they are to hand . |
| 20 | If all went awry and there was to be a last ditch fight for the city , this is where it would take place . ) |
| 21 | Long-nets have to be set properly if they are to be effective . |
| 22 | The Smith residence was a plush , elderly house set amongst trees and shrubs off the road ; the lights were on and there was to be no deliverance . |
| 23 | All presidents must move carefully and skilfully if they are to be effective leaders . |
| 24 | It 's all one to me but time 's getting on and your Auntie 'll want you back early if you 're to be up at crack of dawn in the morning . ’ |
| 25 | While courses such as intravenous therapy updates are readily acceptable and have immediately observable results in terms of clinical care delivery , less tangible skills such as teaching need to be built up gradually if they are to be successful , another factor which may affect motivation . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , David , we 'd better be off if we 're to be back in time for this afternoon 's session . ’ |
| 27 | Within his own country , he is not so much a Leviathan as a Gulliver figure hemmed in and tied down by a complex network of restraints that must be thrown off if he is to be more than a helpless giant in the White House . |
| 28 | It was revealed later that they are to be held outside Liverpool at one of Britain 's four special secure units for child offenders . |
| 29 | All food needs to be stored and prepared carefully if it is to be enjoyed at its best . |
| 30 | An evangelical of great piety and a man of gentle character and inflexible integrity , Johnson was charged with a mission beyond the powers of most because he was to be custodian of the morals of the infant settlement but he had also to conform to the pragmatism of Arthur Phillip [ q.v. ] , the first governor of New South Wales . |