Example sentences of "are [pron] to [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are you to be respected ? |
| 2 | Are we to be killed by the Cubans or the Russians ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Are we to be destroyed from inside , too , a country which successfully repelled and destroyed Philip of Spain , Napoleon , the Kaiser , Hitler ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ How ’ , the teachers asked , ‘ are we to be trained and to find the time to do the job , without any extra resources ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ For how long are we to be deprived of the company of the lovely new bride ? ’ a voice spoke silkily behind them . |
| 6 | Is the Department of Trade and Industry prepared to do anything to help the efforts of my hon. Friend the Member for Motherwell , South ( Dr. Bray ) to try to secure thin slab steel production in Scotland — or are we to be left entirely to the mercy of that virtual private monopoly , the British Steel Corporation ? |
| 7 | As the rest of Europe and the world progresses , are we to be left in a quagmire of despair at the end of another parliamentary Session , another era and another century ? |
| 8 | Are they to be defined as refugees ? |
| 9 | Who are they to be denied any chance of having future pension rights secured under new clause 4 and amendment No. 17 ? |
| 10 | How are they to be kept ‘ apart ’ ? |
| 11 | But can less authoritarian forms of moral discipline be effective and if so , how are they to be achieved ? |
| 12 | For those tenants who become so dependent as to require more intensive care than can be reasonably provided in sheltered housing the survey asks : " Are they to be " bolstered up " by extra warden support ( and other sources of help ) or are they to be transferred to more appropriate settings ? " |
| 13 | Even less than Local Authorities are they to be relied on for continuity of policy , or an ability to look beyond the day after tomorrow . |
| 14 | No longer are they to be considered as Princess Diana 's or the Duchess of York 's children . |
| 15 | Such skills and abilities are not the prerogative of a particular sort of teacher or of a particular style of teaching — nor are they to be found only in teachers who work with the youngest children in our primary schools . |
| 16 | Where are they to be found ? |
| 17 | Is that to be defined by reference to the express terms of the contract or are they to be excluded in defining what was reasonably to be expected ? |
| 18 | How in this context are they to be drawn back to Jesus ' people ? |
| 19 | Are sportsmen and sportswomen to be at liberty to negotiate in the interests of their sport or are they to be browbeaten by the lobby of latter-day puritans ? ’ |
| 20 | Are sportsment and sportswomen to be at liberty to negotiate in the interests of their sport or are they to be browbeaten by the lobby of latter-day puritans ? ’ |