Example sentences of "is [prep] be [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only relief is from being constantly carried and even then the relief may not last or they will want to be carried first by one parent and then the other . |
| 2 | While its powers will be limited by both the president and the lower house , the fact that it is to be freely elected will give it hard-to ignore moral authority . |
| 3 | The type of detailed empirical research reviewed above suggests that scepticism is to be strongly recommended . |
| 4 | Those who heard the lecture will want to read it , and for those who did not , it is to be strongly recommended . |
| 5 | If central heating is to be newly installed , it should be borne in mind that people who have two different forms of heating are at an advantage during a power failure or power cut if there is a strike , also that gas- or oil-fired central heating depend upon an electric pump . |
| 6 | where an item is to be commercially reproduced this will come within design right protection or registered design right protection , and this should be checked . |
| 7 | But , in feline terms , to be stared at is to be mildly threatened . |
| 8 | But if a particular is to be successfully identified non-demonstratively — it is argued — there must be an individuating fact that relates it uniquely to the " present situation of reference " . |
| 9 | If such a procedure is to be successfully executed , it is likely to require careful planning and substantial time commitment . |
| 10 | To walk into a pub function room as I have often done during the ten years I was collecting fieldnotes and see two or three hundred detectives in their ‘ uniform ’ of modern suit and tie , neat haircut , and the fashionable moustache of the times , is to be visibly reminded that there is a narrow symbolic range of bodily correctness within which all policemen can properly operate . |
| 11 | But wherever it comes from , the theory needs to be made explicit and public if its relevance to pedagogy is to be effectively assessed . |
| 12 | However , if the dividend is to be effectively delivered , it can not leave us vulnerable to the many other surprises hiding around the corner . |
| 13 | This establishes the soundness of the contention that , if human behaviour is to be effectively controlled , there must be a moral code , based on a viable religion , as well as statute-laws . |
| 14 | If , in view of the scale and complexity of governmental functions , the task is to be effectively discharged , the whole must , in some way , be rationalised and coordinated . |
| 15 | If an objective is to be effectively measured it needs to be very clearly defined . |
| 16 | Each station is to be individually questioned , and an original deadline to provide information by August has been extended to October . |
| 17 | Indeed , to the extent that the Faculty raises standards of knowledge amongst chartered accountants who practise taxation , its advent is to be positively welcomed . |
| 18 | This article is to be strictly construed : W. J. G. Bauhuis v. The Netherlands State ( Case 46/76 ) [ 1977 ] E.C.R. 5 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This four-year project is to be jointly co-ordinated by the School of Oriental and African Studies , University of London , and the University of Bordeaux ( co-directors , Dr D B Cruise O'Brien and Dr C Coulon ) with a multi-disciplinary team of nine scholars : four British and five French . |
| 21 | Usually the physical data on soil loss has to be combined with a fairly detailed knowledge of land-use and its history , if the man-made contribution to erosion is to be reliably estimated over large areas ( outside carefully laid-out experimental plots in research stations ) . |
| 22 | The demarcation between black and rust is to be clearly defined . |
| 23 | Dance movement in every form and style must be correctly parsed and expressed if it is to be clearly understood whether its message is simple , subtle , bold , comic or tragic . |
| 24 | FAST has also argued that the Community 's Common Agricultural Policy will need radical changes if biotechnology is to be optimally developed . |
| 25 | And , although it is to be officially unveiled next month , there is already a waiting list of local people eager to be treated with it . |
| 26 | THE breakdown of the London ambulance computer is to be officially investigated , Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley told MPs yesterday . |
| 27 | A HISTORIC Wirral landmark , rescued from dereliction by a local company , is to be officially opened by Baroness Chalker . |
| 28 | The only way to make sure your bra is exactly right for you is to be professionally fitted in a department store or specialist underwear shop . |
| 29 | The hotel , restaurant and take-home market , is to be particularly targetted . |
| 30 | If tourism is to be properly recognised as Scotland 's largest employer , and recognised for the very considerable revenue that it brings into the country , it must first be given higher priority within the Scottish Office itself . |