Example sentences of "[noun sg] be to be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The imaging technique and its particular applications in the oil industry are to be further developed through a research project sponsored by an oil company and carried out by BGS in collaboration with Leicester University . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The consequences of the emancipation were to be even more remarkable than the political process from which the statutes emerged . |
| 4 | The type of detailed empirical research reviewed above suggests that scepticism is to be strongly recommended . |
| 5 | The last thing I want after the programme is to be still caught up in the atmosphere of the studio . |
| 6 | Sociological research , like all scientific enquiry is fundamentally prompted by simple human curiosity , an indispensable quality if research is to be both successful and enjoyable . |
| 7 | The research is to be jointly funded by the club members , who have so far allocated £2m , and which has been matched by government funds . |
| 8 | If a scenario for action is to be socially and politically acceptable in an area it has to be linked into people 's beliefs about their present positions and purposes . |
| 9 | The product adopted for this task was a laminated bitumen and polyethylene sheet material which demands very careful attention to the formation of joints between sheets if groundwater penetration is to be entirely excluded . |
| 10 | It seemed that the only way I could be sure of making teams in future was to be so far ahead of the opposition that they could n't possibly leave me out . |
| 11 | Funding for the urban programme was to be significantly increased . |
| 12 | When Charman first joined the band he told them that him ambition was to be as big as Marc Riley and The Creepers one day . |
| 13 | Alix , who had no idea of what the gossip was to be about , but who could sense its ominous crackling in the distance , wanted to go home , but tiresomely Brian , the party-hater , had managed to find his old friend Otto Werner and was deep in conversation about English social class , European intellectuals , the German education system , public schools , and the appointing of JPs and magistrates , a rich vein which they might have been able to explore for another hour at least , had Alix not been at their elbow , murmuring of departure . |
| 14 | Accumulated errors were to be erased from the holy books , services were to be conducted in a more intelligible manner , sermons were to be encouraged , and scholarship was to be actively fostered in a number of monasteries ; at the same time , new saints were canonized , clergy and laity alike urged to observe the prescribed fasts , and for a brief time the government even went to the lengths of closing the taverns . |
| 15 | The courts upheld the method adopted and rejected both the alternatives suggested , the first because the shareholders were not ‘ part owners of the undertaking ’ and the second because the regulation implied that each holding was to be separately valued . |
| 16 | But , in fact , the delegation was to be more successful than Manners ' remarks revealed at the time . |
| 17 | A further 25 seats to the 75-member Council were to be directly appointed by the Amir , Shaikh Jabir al Ahmad al Jabir as Sabah . |
| 18 | A clause which says no more than that the expert is to be 'suitably qualified " can provide material for a wasteful argument if a dispute arises subsequently . |
| 19 | In contrast to the reactions from doctors and nutritionists on the publication of previous healthy eating reports , this time the plan is to be more positive towards it . |
| 20 | Indeed , to the extent that the Faculty raises standards of knowledge amongst chartered accountants who practise taxation , its advent is to be positively welcomed . |
| 21 | But wherever it comes from , the theory needs to be made explicit and public if its relevance to pedagogy is to be effectively assessed . |
| 22 | Our fate is to be even more horrible than to be frogmarched out of Downing street . |
| 23 | The task for the NHS developer is to be more careful in evaluating learning and to make the findings more visible to policy-makers . |
| 24 | This station was not to survive , but its influence was to be extensively felt . |
| 25 | This new kind of educational institute was to be not merely a school but also a shelter from a harsh world . |
| 26 | She lived to regret what she regarded as her weakness , for the child 's fate was to be so terrible that his existence had to be denied in her own mind . |
| 27 | Immigration from the mainland was to be strictly controlled while Macao 's entertainment industry , centred around gambling casinos , was to be preserved as a major support to the territory 's economy . |
| 28 | Assistance was to be generally " selective " and " exceptional " , contributing to investment rather than running costs . |
| 29 | The algorithm originally adopted was that a pixel was to be ON if more than five of the surrounding eight pixels were ON , OFF if fewer than three were ON , and not changed from its existing value if from three to five were ON . |
| 30 | A knowledge of geometry was to be highly prized because it could help one to visualize the geometrical forms alluded to in Scripture . |