Example sentences of "[be] to [be] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said , ‘ So the most I can hope for would be to be at home on a respirator full-time ? ’ |
| 2 | This order stays all further proceedings except for the purpose of carrying terms agreed — as contained in a Schedule annexed into effect ; the order ends with the words " … for that purpose , the parties are to be at liberty to apply " . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You are to be by daughter-in-law as well as my niece . " |
| 6 | The children are to be in role as time travellers . |
| 7 | If the two emitted waves are to be in phase and reinforce each other , their path lengths must differ by a number of wavelengths . |
| 8 | If this proposition were to be of interest I would arrange for you to be put in contact with my client , who will reveal his identity at the appropriate stage . |
| 9 | Watt realised that the engine would be much more efficient if the cylinder were to be at boiler temperature when the steam entered , but of course it was cool from the previous condensation . |
| 10 | Indeed those dependent upon casual labour had to live close to docks and factories if they were to be on hand for work as it became available . |
| 11 | When she moved in Virginia Woolf was thirty-seven and had published her first novel The Voyage Out and had her second , Night and Day , accepted ; all her other books were to be in part written at Monk 's House . |
| 12 | Women were to be in charge of domestic morality , and their moral influence was to be ensured by the rule of indissoluble monogamous marriage . |
| 13 | Meanwhile it was planned to raise some F15,000 million ( £1,600 million ) of additional funds , of which three-quarters were to be in bank loans with the remainder being raised in a share issue . |
| 14 | The new system depended upon annual surveys being published each year , together with five-year plans , rolled forward one year at the next annual planning round.2 In this pattern of five-year plans , the first two were to be in detail , and the next three in outline . |
| 15 | The new institutions were to be in place within nine months . |
| 16 | New non-specialist periodicals were to be in Arabic unless permission for the use of a foreign language was obtained from the government-appointed Higher National Council for Information and Communication [ see p. 37218 for adoption in July 1989 of information code creating this Council ] . |
| 17 | Is it really so difficult for a technologically innovative and ingenious society such as ours to support seventeen in every thousand , even if all seventeen were to be in need of continuous personal care ( as clearly they will not be ) ? |
| 18 | Its decisions were to be by majority vote , and its verdicts would be final . |
| 19 | If it 's to be for life . |
| 20 | He should be told that the specimen of breath which he has given containing the lower proportion of alcohol exceeds the statutory limit but does not exceed 50 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath ; that in these circumstances he is entitled to claim to have this specimen replaced by a specimen of blood or urine if he wishes ; but that , if he does so , it will be for the constable to decide whether the replacement specimen is to be of blood or urine and that if the constable requires a specimen of blood it will be taken by a doctor unless the doctor considers that there are medical reasons for not taking blood , when urine may be given instead . |
| 21 | In a case where the driver 's option is to be explained to him under section 8(2) , the driver should be told that if he exercises the right to have a replacement specimen taken under section 7(4) , it will be for the constable to decide whether that specimen is to be of blood or urine and , if the constable intends to require a specimen of blood to be taken by a medical practitioner , the driver should be told that his only right to object to giving blood and to give urine instead will be for medical reasons to be determined by the medical practitioner . |
| 22 | When many of these are taken by one person it is still useful for him or her to ensure that the separate responsibilities are kept in balance — and essential if the work is to be of use to other teachers . |
| 23 | If the pool is to be of concrete a similar construction in that material can be made . |
| 24 | But his finest hour in the Leone films is to be on television next week . |
| 25 | It is to be on television , ’ said Alison in her careful precise voice . |
| 26 | Is to be at home nowhere . |
| 27 | The choice of reference , whether it is to be to expert or arbitrator , is in any event usually made at the time of the original contract which precedes the time when the parties know whether they have an " issue to settle " or a " formulated dispute " , and they will be obliged to use whatever procedure was stipulated , unless they make some fresh agreement . |
| 28 | ‘ Our witness ’ he said , ‘ is to be for goodness ’ , which he defined not only as being ‘ honest , temperate , chaste ’ and leading an ‘ upright , decent , useful life ’ , but as the spirit or motivation behind all this . |
| 29 | 305U with side letter on reverse Side letter to be signed to ensure that there is no doubt that charge is to be in support of the guarantee liability . |
| 30 | Anyway — Fjortoft put in a nice little goal for Norway last night — so if Frank is to be in contention ( ? ) he will have to beat Dino or Wallace for a place during this winter — which is not — that — probable . |