Example sentences of "they be to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Self-interest plays a part but the clubs have a strong case when they argue that if they are to be the mentors to the young , society must help to foot the bill . |
| 2 | The figures from the United Kingdom , acknowledged as they are to be the most accurate , still underestimate the true incidence of infection . |
| 3 | The more often they mate , the more likely they are to be the one who fertilises the eggs , and the more certain they can be that the offspring they expend so much time and energy in rearing are theirs . |
| 4 | There are three vital programmes in which you must train your lecturers if they are to be the advisers and guides that they are supposed to be . |
| 5 | And they know they 'll have to unite behind the new one if they 're to be a force at the next General Election . |
| 6 | The recreational vehicles — Vauxhall is sensitive about calling them off-roaders — are familiar ; in Japan and in the US they 're the short-wheelbase Isuzu Amigo and the long-wheelbase five-door Rodeo , but in the UK they 're to be the Vauxhall Frontera Sport and Frontera respectively . |
| 7 | They were to be a new form of secondary school — ‘ beacons of excellence ’ — funded mainly by industry , and would concentrate on science and technology . |
| 8 | They were to be the basis of a new natural philosophy , and were advocated both by practising experimenters and by theoreticians . |
| 9 | The islands were well-known for their beauty to the passengers of the steamships passing up and down the Straits , but few of those who leant on their ship 's rail on sultry moonlit evenings , gazing out at the serene islands could ever have conceived that they were to be the site of some of the most catastrophic events that the world has ever seen . |
| 10 | Villagers in Usk , Powys , thought they were to be the next flood victims when the River Usk rose 20 feet in three hours . |
| 11 | They were to be the pall-bearers . |
| 12 | For the better part of the next forty years they were to be the decisive restraints . |
| 13 | They were to be the last to escape from the Teeth of the Storm . |
| 14 | Beneath them were to be the fascist Legions , the militant branch of the League who were divided into active and passive sections of members . |