Example sentences of "be to [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim of the business leader must be to be the best , for only the best command their own destiny and achieve the sort of rewards that are sought for themselves and their people . |
| 2 | I am to be the new Archdeacon here . ’ |
| 3 | These babies are to be the first of a new kind of missile , powered by life . |
| 4 | Women Deacons in the Diocese of Oxford are to be the first in the country to be ordained as priests . |
| 5 | Observation and participation in the installation ceremonies are to be the major tools of research and have been made possible by earlier field-work . |
| 6 | Great is the festival hall where you are to be the only guest . |
| 7 | Planning , social inquiry reports and enforcing court orders are to be the future task of probation , with an emphasis on the new task of the management and organisation of time , resources and workloads . |
| 8 | It is not necessarily romantic — that is , restrictive , unreal , exaggerated — to draw on the upper deck for the individual characters whose attitudes and decisions are to be the driving force of a story . |
| 9 | The Bootle coal mountains are to be the focal point of a demonstration against imports and pit closures tomorrow . |
| 10 | The loans were to be administered by a specially formed company under contract to the government ; but the government has been unable to secure the co-operation of the major banks , who were to be the chief participants in the new company , and the loans scheme is in disarray . |
| 11 | Top talks as if it rested with me to settle who were to be the Unionist candidates for the constituencies . |
| 12 | If £20 were to be the standard fee , which I support , then OAPs and the unemployed could get a £10 discount . |
| 13 | Tribal sculpture and the painting of Cézanne , both of which were used extensively by Picasso as sources for the Demoiselles , were to be the two major influences in the creation of Cubism ; in fact the constant inspiration which Picasso and Braque drew from the art of Cézanne and the stimulation which tribal sculpture provided for Picasso were the only important outside influences in the development of a style which was to be very self-contained . |
| 14 | He points out that petrol is now very cheap : if , in real terms , it were to be the equivalent price of a decade ago it would cost over £4 a gallon . |
| 15 | There was a substantial issue of fact as to whether or not the elderly parents , who were to be the principal debtors , had received the letters written by the creditor advising them to take independent legal advice . |
| 16 | For the better part of the next forty years they were to be the decisive restraints . |
| 17 | ’ The black majority were to be the prime targets ’ |
| 18 | The Symposium was at pains to stress that it was the black majority who were to be the prime targets of any campaign . |
| 19 | In 455 the Goths were to be the prime movers in his elevation to imperial office . |
| 20 | Strikes by Doherty ‘ s National Union of Operative Spinners , and in the coal fields , greatly alarmed Peel , at the Home Office ; and , in what were to be the dying days of the Tory administration , he looked unsuccessfully for a legal answer to what he called ‘ the constitution and acts of a confederacy calculated in its immediate effects to disturb the peace of the manufacturing districts , and capable , if allowed to gain strength and consistency , of being converted at once into an open resistance to the law . ’ |
| 21 | These were to be the major elements of the action project . |
| 22 | Realism had flourished with Defoe , Richardson , Fielding and Smollett , and these were to be the presiding deities of the new British novel . |
| 23 | The proposal for a community charge — or ‘ poll tax ’ — put forward by Nicholas Ridley in 1988 ran into furious local opposition , not least among the Scots who were to be the first to pay this new imposition , After all , freeborn Englishmen , led by Wat Tyler , had revolted against a poll tax as long ago as 1381 , and its bluntness and social inequity helped fuel a considerable popular protest , including in the Conservative shires . |
| 24 | Despite these intentions there is some evidence , however , drawn from proposed schemes submitted by LEAs ( but never implemented ) , which suggests that in practice the allegedly integrated curriculum emphasized ‘ liberal ’ studies for the 14- to 16-year-olds who were to be the first age-group to attend under compulsion . |
| 25 | We were to be the first line . |
| 26 | Didsbury and Berkshire College of Education ( soon to be renamed Bulmershe College of Higher Education ) were to be the first to submit ‘ major ’ complete schemes for full-time BEd courses . |
| 27 | The first two years of education were to be the academic years , and there were proposals for these two years also to be seen as discrete and eligible for a Diploma of Higher Education . |
| 28 | Beneath them were to be the fascist Legions , the militant branch of the League who were divided into active and passive sections of members . |
| 29 | To many within the underground , and in the media 's eyes , in the years ahead Ferrier and Neville were to be the archetypal underground beautiful couple . |
| 30 | Thus , it began to incorporate the principles of determinism and the differentiation of offenders from non-offenders that were to be the later hallmarks of positivist criminology . |