Example sentences of "[be] to be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you 're to try and fill her shoes , which I very much doubt you 'll ever do , but if you 're to be even half the woman that she was , may God have mercy on her , then you 'll need all the reminding I can give you . ’ |
| 2 | The entire carboxy terminal half of the proteins , from aa 400 to the end , is predicted to be to be very hydrophilic ( 22 , 30 ) . |
| 3 | Our response to recession must simply be to be more determined , focused and innovative . |
| 4 | Informal groups should be organized on the basis of free self-expression if they are to be most helpful . |
| 5 | To date the government , and the industry , has refused to be drawn on the isotopic concentration of the plutonium exported to America — critical information if objectors are to be wholly satisfied that no weapons-grade material got across to the other side of the Atlantic . |
| 6 | ‘ The Pakistan bowlers have added a new dimension to bowling — one that needs to be carefully noted by other countries if they are to be equally successful swingers of the old ball . ’ |
| 7 | This helps stress the need to get the whole approach right if the landings are to be reasonably accurate . |
| 8 | This question needs to be tackled if we are to be reasonably certain that observed variation reflects a speaker 's norm rather than random fluctuation in the data . |
| 9 | The rules for operating in symbolic algebra are to be just those of arithmetic algebra . |
| 10 | Facilities are to be environmentally efficient and visually attractive . |
| 11 | Second , Titles V and VI make it explicitly clear that just as with other aspects of Community life , the institutions of the EEC , in particular the Commission , are to be fully involved in ‘ Union ’ foreign and home policy . |
| 12 | Indeed , if performance criteria are to be national , if they are to have currency throughout the system , and if they are to be as detailed and specific as the proponents of criterion-referenced testing insist , then this reform presages central intervention in the school curriculum of a most emphatic kind . |
| 13 | Children are more likely to obtain jobs in the class bracket of their fathers than they are to be socially mobile . |
| 14 | Equally , if farmers are to be more subject to market forces , the planning system must be flexible and sensitive enough to enable farmers to diversify . |
| 15 | If we are to be more specific , we must compare one particular type of indirect tax system with one particular type of direct tax system . |
| 16 | There are already signs that the rights are to be so qualified as to become ineffective . |
| 17 | If there are major disagreements as to concepts ( eg as to whether the warranties are to be very detailed or are merely trying to catch material items ) it may be necessary to have a meeting of the principals to resolve the concepts against which the agreement is to be negotiated . |
| 18 | Conference believes that if we are to be truly representative , with full democratic involvement within the movement , then the T U C should allow this conference the right to send two motions and delegates to the T U C Congress each year . |
| 19 | These are to be basically literate , to be basically numerate , to understand how to live and work together , and have respect for others and respect for the individual . |
| 20 | The word ‘ strategy ’ , or indeed , ‘ management ’ , for example , implies that choices are available ; and choices , if they are to be rationally defensible , must be made by reference to known and accepted principles . |
| 21 | In addition , because there are only a very few , small sites available for redevelopment , new investors would be pushing out present occupiers if the development were to be economically viable . |
| 22 | In November 1989 the Estonian Supreme Soviet declared the republic to be " sovereign " , and USSR Supreme Soviet laws were to be effectively subject to approval by the Estonian Supreme Soviet [ see p. 36486 ] . |
| 23 | Increases in the 1990 crime rate were to be even worse . |
| 24 | In fact both treatments would work even if one were to be marginally better . |
| 25 | She needed a plan of action , she decided as she began the task of stripping several layers of wallpaper from the walls — a concerted campaign to protect the club , and if she were to be painfully honest , herself , from the marauding hands of the so-called Midnight Raider . |
| 26 | As with the Merseyside Task Force , they were to be primarily concerned with project development and not with issues of strategy . |
| 27 | Among all the books which have survived — and nearly seventy have now been identified — there is not a single volume of the basic works of Patristic theology or of recent scholastic learning , which ( as we have seen ) were conspicuous in the library at Bec , and were to be equally conspicuous at Canterbury after Lanfranc had restored the library . |
| 28 | London Transport decided to standardize on a 70 seater six-wheeler , but the first batches for the Croydon area and Bexley area , were to be slightly smaller and 60 seaters . |
| 29 | This would not arise if the universal conception were to be theoretically dominant in a social psychology which resembled a universal anthropology more than it did a historical social science . |
| 30 | If we were to be totally cynical , we would say it lets Darlington MP Michael Fallon off a nasty hook . |