Example sentences of "be [prep] be [det] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ As I say , this is supposed to be Top Secret , but you 'd better know if you 're to be any help .
2 If they are to be more than mere training , then a process of informed reflection has to go on at the same time .
3 You need to learn to handle it for at least three minutes if you are to be any good at negotiations .
4 immediately if there were to be such a disaster as a Labour Government .
5 Sharpe was released a few days later , but there were to be many more visits to the hospital as worries grew about his condition .
6 There were to be many success stories in the world of Light Entertainment , Current Affairs , Documentary , Drama , schools and children 's programming and regional programmes , including of course Central News .
7 Going along the road , er on the A Nineteen , from the north towards er the village er if one assumed that there were to be some development on site D forty , would you be able to see it from the road ?
8 Director Tony Smith had just completed the prize-winning TV series Tutti Frutti , but these were to be some of his first commercials .
9 There were to be some more good periods , like the first part of 1810 , or 1813 – 14 when wages again averaged 16s ( 80p ) a week .
10 Were we not concerned with a historical religion we could settle such matters as to who might be the ministers in the religion ( if indeed there were to be any ) on a priori ethical grounds .
11 She left shortly , having surprised Dinah for the first time in her life ; and there were to be more surprises .
12 He said there were to be several explicit love scenes . "
13 Mr Deputy Speaker I I 'm grateful to the honourable gentleman for posing the central question and I hope in the course of my remarks I will satisfy the house , if not all Labour members , that the settlement proposals are at is all to the good and delivered by councils throughout Wales and that they offer enough money er to avoid sacking essential staff , certainly the offer enough money to avoid sacking any teacher who is needed in the classroom .
14 And the aerial is in is those two strips on the window .
15 Well it 's to be all really that somebody can make a use of these things in n it ?
16 ‘ I would n't have expected any relation of Caro 's to be such an old-fashioned fuddy-duddy .
17 ‘ It 's to be another expedition that will start then .
18 Er and that did underline er we feel at the moment that we 're not being listened to by the , how important it would be , it is , erm if there 's to be any kind of inter village ,
19 If the thing 's to be more than a game there 'll have to be some risks .
20 The first president of International Green Cross ( IGC ) is to be former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev , who suggested the idea three years ago .
21 This identity-computation must succeed if the final perception is to be that of a single object , whether in motion or in change .
22 Thus far we have seen that the perspective from which to view bias is to be that of the reasonable man ; it is not to be the individual affected himself ( because he may be perverse , oversensitive , etc. ) , nor is it to be the ex post detachment of a reviewing court , ( which is the disagreement with the Barnsley formulation ) .
23 It presumes that the meaning to be ascribed to any of the elements which comprise the X factor is to be that determined by the reviewing court in preference to that decided on by the tribunal .
24 Ivan Klima could be called a lyric author , and the notion of what it is to be such an author is examined in My First Loves , whose gentle and deliberate stories read as if they have been grown and stored before being made public .
25 The county has a view about golf courses — that if there is to be such a development it is better for them to be sited not on good farming land , or in naturally beautiful areas , but on the outskirts of towns .
26 A general problem that might be explored in the other place is how , if there is to be such a separation , we can ensure that fruitful , easy relationships continue to exist .
27 ( a ) Duration of tenancy The duration of a new tenancy granted under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 is to be such term as is reasonable in all the circumstances ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s33 ) .
28 If it is to be more than a symbolic marker of the moment when North and South decided in principle to work together for mutual survival , a number of decisions on how to administer it will have to be made .
29 Barbara Conroy , in her book on library staff development discusses evaluation in terms of how far stated objectives have been achieved , and emphasizes that although evaluation requires careful identification of what is being evaluated and why , to decide the ‘ how , when and where ’ , of evaluation if it is to be more than ‘ just a way of channelling impressionistic information into a required report form ’ , that it is not a highly ‘ esoteric ’ activity , necessarily involving ‘ complex research methodology ’ .
30 Any future attempt to end our oppression or to re-draw the boundaries will , if it is to be more than tokenistic , have to touch on the question of how we learn our sexuality — or , as some of us see it , how we experience heterosexist socialization .
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