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Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pron] be to " in BNC.

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1	It is a disappointment that there are to be 600 redundancies , but there is a continuing significant level of employment in defence at Barrow which is dependent on it and which has been sustained by the Government 's commitment to a strong defence .
2	Unfortunately , problems still remain with regard to delivery and it seems that in the case of an individual delivery will still be necessary as the old law still applies , with the result that a document will be treated as delivered when it is clear that it was intended by one of the parties that he was to be bound by the terms of the document .
3	Secondly , the gift must be made upon the condition that it is to be absolute and perfected only on the donor 's death , being revocable until that event occurs and ineffective if it does not .
4	these are recommendations from a joint working party D of E of the erm local authority association and they are to almost unbelievable for us to consider and I can only assume that the that we must remember that this is really a response to what I call Heseltine 's last squeeze which was the idea of executive mayors and so in a sense lip service which has to be paid somewhere along those lines but it does recommend that we think seriously about cabinet govern government about single party committees and I ca n't imagine how anybody in their right minds would argue now that the cabinet government when they see what cabinet government leads to in Westminster and what de facto cabinet government leads to in majority ruled councils up and down the country erm , there is of course a I think a misleading er er brownie point the idea of relaxing restrictions on members allowances but members must realise why that is in there .
5	I need that from Bobby and the rest of the side if we are to be successful , ’ says newly-appointed Larder .
6	Whatever measures are derived from a structured task , we are still likely to be left wondering how they relate to the language the child uses in everyday settings and it is to a consideration of procedures for sampling naturalistic language production that we now turn .
7	Balance is difficult to define in simple terms and requires great sensitivity by journalists if it is to be achieved .
8	‘ You 'll need a good wig if you 're to be Hedda 's long-haired poet . ’
9	After one such day , on the journey back , he and his brother Ifor ended up in a nasty fight with several English supporters and it was to this that he traced the beginning of his lifelong , terribly painful and ultimately crushing spinal problems .
10	‘ For your information , Lucy and I are to be married — as soon as possible . ’
11	‘ Lucy and I are to be married . ’
12	When secondhand goods are sold on the " as is " basis of Precedent 4 , the question arises as to the extent to which the seller can disclaim responsibility for their condition if they are to be used at work either by the buyer , or by someone to whom the buyer sells them .
13	Members heard Beamish tell the audience that Germany was a great country today because Hitler had named the enemy and it was to be hoped that he would soon call an international conference on the question .
14	Whatever aspect they present — whether written for scientific or commercial purposes , or perhaps for some voluntary organisation — they will follow the lines of this chapter if they are to be of use .
15	The ADC felt that this was ironic , given that a property has to be close to amenities if it is to be excluded from the Right to Buy ;
16	It is important for lawyers to know not only the statutory provisions and procedural rules of child care law but also the principles of good social work practice if they are to be effective in care proceedings .
17	Such apparent double standards need rigorous scientific data if they are to be justified .
18	Climate modelling and assessing environmental change will need more than three years ' data if it is to be enhanced .
19	Many would look to a professional perspective to balance these developments in the interests of the clients and it is to an examination of this perspective that the chapter now turns .
20	These need to be as specific as possible , including a timetable for action if they are to be of any use .
21	‘ Yes , he had a very good record in England but I feel hi is sacrificing skill at the expense of power — or brute force if one is to be honest about it . ’
22	This is an important result because it is to these industries that regional policy has been primarily applied .
23	Sinatra stormed off of the set of Carousel on the first day of shooting because it was to be shot in both the new CinemaScope 55 format and the standard ‘ flat ’ ratio , meaning everything had to be shot twice .
24	Since the node-link-node triples are not as meaningful to readers as they are to those who made the semantic net , the author may place any phrase in the margin .
25	All that we said in Part 2 about exploiting the control video gives us over the material is as relevant to the teacher trainer as it is to the teacher .
26	The fathers were as close to the New Testament as we are to the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century .
27	In June , regular services began from South Shore to Bispham , which became a major terminal of the Promenade cars as it is to this day .
28	When it comes to desserts , it is not as difficult to say no the those of Spain and Mexico as it is to those of some other countries .
29	Central heating can be as serious a scourge to fine old books as it is to fine old furniture .
30	This crowded historical panorama of war and the power of beauty describes the birth of Ayesha as the mortal daughter of noble Arabian parents but suggests in recounting her long training in mysticism under an Egyptian priest and her guardianship of the Fire of Immortality in the shrine at Kôr that she is to be regarded in part as a spiritual being .