Example sentences of "these [noun pl] be [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The survey people stressed the importance of neutrality and objectivity in research , and the participant observation enthusiasts argued that the essential thing about social life is what it means to those involved , and that the only valid way of getting at these meanings is to participate in the lives of those who shared them . |
| 2 | These rules were to apply to property bequeathed unconditionally or else under a term ( dies ) . |
| 3 | They 've a long way to go if one of these youngsters are to compete at Sydney in the year 2 000 … but already they 've claimed a notable scalp . |
| 4 | Throughout the 1970s all of these elements were to feature in the Council 's attempts to find the appropriate balances under its Charter , and to handle the increasingly complex range of subjects and institutions . |
| 5 | What is essential in considering all these matters is to see beyond the weeping , struggling figure to the austere searcher who had devoted his life to reaching precise definitions of Truth , Rectitude and Justice , and to living accordingly . |
| 6 | If these matters were to pass into European competence in the way that the Liberal Democrats want , there would be an inevitable weakening of our controls and our frontier controls , which I am not prepared to accept . |
| 7 | Eventually these advantages were to tell against England in the war , but in its early phases such disparity was of less account , and the ability of the two kings to mobilize the financial resources of their realms and to command the support of the nobility was to be of greater consequence . |
| 8 | To imagine that the Labour leaders could have thwarted and de-mobilised such a force for all these years is to attribute to them superhuman powers . |
| 9 | Most of these problems are to do with the nature of conversational English , which still suffers badly from our attempts to describe it using models which originate in earlier studies of the written language , and which have been influenced by what I can only call our innate desire for things to be neat and regular . |
| 10 | These committees were to work in concert with the police and with the KGB ( which , under a Nov. 23 USSR Supreme Soviet resolution , had already been given the responsibility of ensuring that food aid from abroad did not fall into the hands of speculators ) . |
| 11 | His purpose in these pamphlets was to describe in detail his proposals for the layout of buildings in which , with a minimum of formal rules and supervisory staff , large numbers of people could be kept under constant surveillance ( Hume , 1973 p 706 ) . |
| 12 | Whatever the outcome of the Higginson Committee 's inquiry may be , if we are to see a radical improvement in secondary education , we must learn to think not merely of a new form of examination ( and therefore presumably a novel kind of syllabus that will lead to it ) but of a wholly new approach to those studies that we wish to retain in the sixth forms at school , and how these studies are to relate to the pupils ' next step , when they leave school . |
| 13 | An empirical rule based on these observations is to branch on the basic structural variable x r with largest penalty ( either up or down ) . |
| 14 | Much of the interaction in these situations is to do with persuasion . |
| 15 | However , neither of these achievements were to prove to Mosley 's advantage in the 1930s . |
| 16 | The purpose of these tests is to look for overstatement or understatement and to examine the quality of management decisions which fall outside the scope of the systems in place for a contract . |
| 17 | The first of these points is to do with venue and Arts Centre development . |
| 18 | Although the context of illegitimacy may be changing , in that relatively permanent cohabitation is essentially equivalent to formal marriage , if similar proportions of these women were to look towards the local authority sector in future , it would indicate a substantially increased need for public housing . |
| 19 | The purpose of these measurements was to ascertain through conscientious planning and medical surveillance that inadvertent exposure during spraying does not create any hazard to a rural population . |