Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] they 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Even for low attainers projects are done individually if they are to be assessed . |
| 4 | Keeping vegetables in the fridge , and preparing them just before they are to be cooked , helps preserve the vitamin content , too . |
| 5 | The dates of these visits will be given to you as soon as they are to hand . |
| 6 | Long-nets have to be set properly if they are to be effective . |
| 7 | All presidents must move carefully and skilfully if they are to be effective leaders . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was revealed later that they are to be held outside Liverpool at one of Britain 's four special secure units for child offenders . |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't you ever touch me again ! ’ she yelled , rather inauspiciously if they were to be cast as lovers . |
| 11 | Windows have to be cleaned often if they are to be kept clean , and literary clarity , too , is always likely to be an effect of long labour . |
| 12 | The return system , we , we say to the girls they must come back but they 're to be incorporated within the round . |
| 13 | But , in so far as they are to be seen as sons of the lost primal mother , they clearly represent the manic alternative to the depressive self-punishment of the followers of Cybele or the castrated and killed sons of the Great Mother represented by Attis and Tammuz , by the dead and dismembered Osiris , or the crucified Christ . |
| 14 | Even if they were to be separated , one would know that Susan was somewhere . |
| 15 | But even if they were to be drawn up from scratch with the express aim of reducing the level of severity in sentencing , there would still be a danger that discretion might simply be displaced to an earlier point in the system , such as the prosecutorial decision . |
| 16 | The assumption seems to be that research involving animals , particularly if they are to be harmed in any way , must at least be justified in advance by its probable benefits for human beings , or possibly other animals . |
| 17 | Scrub potatoes in cold water with a vegetable brush or domestic scouring sponge , particularly if they are to be cooked in their skins . |
| 18 | For we have long since ceased to regard the raising of houses in such an offhand fashion , even when they are to the glory only of the home-owning democracy . |
| 19 | They must be available accurately and consistently if they are to be relied upon . |
| 20 | Secondly , we must recall that the mental conflicts which I am identifying as the origins of human society and civilized behaviour — essentially those portrayed in the story of Oedipus — were as intensely painful and unpleasurable to those who experienced them then as they are to those who experience them in our own times . |
| 21 | And was Simone de Beauvoir ( 1972 ) justified in believing that , because women ‘ live dispersed among the males , attached through residence , housework , economic condition , and social standing to certain men — fathers or husbands — more firmly than they are to other women ’ , they can have no common identity or history ? |
| 22 | New Times has pondered whether there would be such vehement opposition about sending ‘ our boys ’ abroad again if they were to be sent to fight for Iraq . |
| 23 | It may be prudent to have them specified , particularly with regard to theft and accidental damage , and certainly if they are to be covered for use in other places . |