Example sentences of "unless [pron] be to be " in BNC.

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1 Unless there is to be a capital reduction of Target , the buy-in of shares must for company law purposes be effected out of Target 's distributable profits or from the proceeds of the issue of new shares .
2 To ban research on a fertilised egg unless it is to be reimplanted , and in the same Bill wish to permit abortion up to 18 weeks demonstrates the movement 's illogicality .
3 The match referee , a technician at his side if necessary , could be the magic eye , unless it is to be someone from the ranks of the umpires themselves .
4 ‘ It does seem to me there must necessarily be some provision of this kind unless it is to be supposed that ministers are never to be allowed to leave the country at all . ’
5 These provisions all concern interim or supervision orders and do not impinge upon the jurisdiction of the court to make prohibited steps or specific issue orders under section 8 of the Act of 1989 in the context of which the minor has no right of veto , unless it is to be found in section 8 of the Act of 1969 .
6 Fertile , moist soil and sun are necessary , and spacing should be 23cm ( 9in ) each way , unless it is to be used for lawns , when spacing should be 15cm ( 6in ) .
7 Unless it is to be assumed that all these territories represent kingdoms established by the Mercians , what the evidence indicates is that the Mercian leaders were extending their influence into originally independent kingdoms on their borders .
8 According to the Suda , Simonides of Magnesia sang of a victory by Antiochus III over the Gauls , about which we know nothing — unless it is to be identified with the episode to which II Maccabees refers as a success by eight thousand Babylonian Jews and four thousand Macedonians against Galatian raiders ( 8.20 ) .
9 Bacon , as an advocate of really long-term investment , said the concentration on tobacco was ‘ to the untimely prejudice of the main business ’ , though it is not easy to see what he thought the main business of a plantation ought to be — his essay was full of sensible advice , much of it showing signs of the influence of the Virginia experience , but he never explained why people should want to support this sort of enterprise , unless it was to be part of a programme for sending people abroad to reduce overpopulation .
10 Although there is some doubt as to whether or not he appreciated this , he could not commit himself without in practice committing his party — unless he was to be replaced .
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