Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] they be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | However as late as 1668 another Roman , Mario Savioni ( c. 1608–1685 ) brought out a book of five-part Madrigali morali e spirituali , explaining that they were to be sung each at the end of one of his previously published Concerti morali and adding that he had ‘ taken care to unite together the aria and the madrigal so as to conform with the character of the concertos ’ . |
| 2 | Antiracist orthodoxy now sees them as the only effective repositories of authentic black culture and as a guaranteed means to transmit all the essential skills that black children will need if they are to ‘ survive ’ in a racist society without psychological damage . |
| 3 | Society itself is , notoriously , changing very rapidly , and the possibility has to be considered that we are entering a period where the notions and the realities of political coercion , of production of wealth , and of cognition and legitimation , may need to be modified if they are to be useable in our actual social environment . |
| 4 | However , his action provoked significant comment from Treasury permanent secretaries , committed as they were to a Gladstonian ideology of ‘ cheap government ’ and to the subordination of the extravagant missionary zeal of medical reformers . |
| 5 | Blake realized that they were to be part of some evil black magic ceremony . |
| 6 | Was there any feeling when these letters were received that they were to be taken seriously or they were in fact a bluff ? |
| 7 | She also points to the importance of performance in first year examinations as a means of identifying potential non-graduates , who may need further support if they are to be successful . |
| 8 | Questions which had no real purpose in the first place are unlikely to be easy to analyse at the answer stage since the researcher is seeking for answers to his hypotheses which will show whether they are to be substantiated or not . |
| 9 | In their Narratives of love and loss ( 1987 , pp.1–2 ) they have set out ‘ to understand and … explain the astonishing emotional depth and moving power of works which might at first sight appear deceptively simple to adult readers , written as they are to be read by children ’ . |
| 10 | It is unclear at this stage if direct comparison can be made with Behrensmeyer 's weathering categories , applied as they are to large mammal weathering in tropical climates , but as a provisional estimate these changes will be attributed to her stage 2 . |
| 11 | The purpose of this study is to determine whether accounting practices need to be adjusted or developed if they are to be of use to firms operating in the highly changeful high technology sectors . |
| 12 | Lord Meston submits that the relevant facts of that case are remarkably comparable to the facts of this case , for the mother 's assertion that there would be a grave risk of an intolerable situation for the child largely depends upon the financial circumstances in which she and the child would be placed if they were to be returned to Canada . |
| 13 | The ‘ Articles concerning the Charters ’ ordained that they were to be observed in full , including those regarding disafforestment , and read out in every county court four times a year . |
| 14 | No , the the well some of them are , those particular ones some of them are joined but they are to all intents and purposes separate in that they can be er , rented out separately they 're not tied to the house erm in that they are they go with it but the housing department have the opportunity to rent them to whoever applies for them . |
| 15 | Etching times in HF vapour depend on the nature of the rock : feldspars , for example , require about 30 minutes etch before they are to be stained . |
| 16 | Thus when using glissades the choreographer must decide whether they are to be darted. and controlled by careful spacing to close in an elegant 5th position , or glided smoothly with a gentle rise and full , or danced in such a way that they give impetus to propel the dancer upwards into the step of elevation . |
| 17 | The tuners are Jackson-stamped Gotohs and have proved in the past to be man enough for the job , relegated as they are to being mere anchor points for the strings , taking into account the Floyd Rose licensed tremolo employed here . |
| 18 | Such , therefore , should be the character in the followers of Jesus , called as they were to be ‘ holy ’ or ‘ separated to God ’ as his special possession ( I Pet . |
| 19 | There were other problems which would remain because they were to a large extent independent of the problems caused by too restrictive a sexual morality . |
| 20 | When it became known that they were to be repatriated , fighting broke out , the gates were forced , and Italian police opened fire after being attacked with stones and planks . |
| 21 | There are people now in the Wag Club whose musical digestive systems would probably collapse if they were to be inadvertently fed a powerchord . |
| 22 | This is closely related to the more general idea of a common association base ( CAB ) : the argument is that some sort of conceptual link has to be formed between individuals which have been introduced if they are to be referred to by a plural pronoun . |
| 23 | They overlap but they 're to some extent slightly different criteria . |
| 24 | It was believed that they were to stage yet another demonstration at the Party conference , this time during tomorrow 's crucially important debate on immigration . |
| 25 | The guidelines say that embryos may only be frozen and stored if they are to be used for in vitro fertilisation later on . |
| 26 | For example , different aspects of a picture , a coin and an Egyptian mummy would need to be emphasised if they are to be distinguished from other objects of the same sort . |
| 27 | The figures from the United Kingdom , acknowledged as they are to be the most accurate , still underestimate the true incidence of infection . |
| 28 | Indeed , except for first-row elements , band shifts are rarely more than one or two cm -1 , and particular precautions must be taken if they are to be observed at all . |
| 29 | The islands were well-known for their beauty to the passengers of the steamships passing up and down the Straits , but few of those who leant on their ship 's rail on sultry moonlit evenings , gazing out at the serene islands could ever have conceived that they were to be the site of some of the most catastrophic events that the world has ever seen . |
| 30 | By June 6 about 300 such detainees were being held under light security in Addis Ababa , and the interim government had stated that they were to be tried in the presence of international observers . |