Example sentences of "[verb] is [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( f ) when a purchaser is being sought for a holding , or aggregate holdings , of shares carrying 30 per cent or more of the voting rights of a company or when the board of a company is seeking potential offerors , and : ( i ) the company is the subject of rumour and speculation , or ( ii ) there is an untoward movement in its share price , or ( iii ) the number of potential purchasers or offerors approached is about to be increased to include more than a very restricted number of people . |
| 2 | The acceptance of the first of the three premises , that the god to be worshipped is not to be identified with the power which is assumed to have created the universe , will bring about a change from long established practice and is of great importance . |
| 3 | To drink is not to be a drunkard ! ’ |
| 4 | The old TEM has been removed , but some cabling and ducting is still to be removed . |
| 5 | Exactly how the money will be invested is still to be decided , but pensioners are being assured they wo n't lose out . |
| 6 | Therefore , what we are suggesting is not to be considered as the only way of " doing it right " . |
| 7 | At the very time this highly specialised library of books on the cotton industry was being dispersed , without even being checked against the holdings of the British Library — the book here listed is not to be found in their catalogue — the New Mills Heritage Centre was trying to put together a collection of books which would be of use to students visiting what had been , among other achievements , the home of the British calico printing industry . |
| 8 | A national curriculum centrally determined is about to be imposed on the schools , and this is bound to encapsulate a philosophy of education , its nature and purpose , that arises directly out of the discontents of the last twenty years . |
| 9 | But indifference to the truth of what he publishes is not to be equated with carelessness , impulsiveness or irrationality in arriving at a positive belief that it is true . |
| 10 | Everything I own is now to be delivered up to Her Majesty 's Inland Revenue . |