Example sentences of "[vb mod] be to " in BNC.

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31 How wonderful it must be to be a great artist like Mr Beaumont or a musician like Mr Fergus or even a teacher like half the church .
32 It must be to the south , across Teviot , for the Tweed , to the north , was the greater river , with no fords nor bridges available for a considerable distance upstream ; and downstream , at Kelso , the Scots could be trapped too easily .
33 ‘ God and the King ’ , he proclaimed , ‘ are so in a league … as one can not be enemy to the one , but that he must be to the other .
34 I used to wonder just what the kestrel was looking at , what it was thinking , and I 'd imagine how wonderful it must be to be suspended in mid-air , looking down on the Earth as it was .
35 Mysticism , in particular , is as meaningless to me as music must be to the tone deaf .
36 If the mind is so conceived that its relation to the world can only be a causal one , then to perceive something must be to be causally affected by it .
37 Since the aim of adoption must always be to provide a child without parents with an environment which will foster normal development , the commitment must be to the child , not to the parents or to the agency .
38 The aim of the business leader must be to be the best , for only the best command their own destiny and achieve the sort of rewards that are sought for themselves and their people .
39 It is sometimes quite incredible the kind of information people expect the reception desk to supply , but generally it takes the form of questions about train , bus and taxi services , which means up-to-date timetables and the telephone numbers of the local taxi services must be to hand .
40 We have to confess that we are at a stage of understanding where any answer must be to some extent tentative .
41 ‘ Sure God save us , ’ they would say , ‘ is n't it soft in the head the poor man must be to be carrying round an old gun for to fight the Rooskies ? ’
42 Although they are , they must be to the people concerned but I mean , a pet 's usually a dog , cat or bird is n't it ?
43 ‘ I was thinking how very unpleasant it must be to be shot . ’
44 But just for a moment she had felt the weight of emptiness , she had felt how it must be to be shut away down here , bereft of even human companionship , away from the light , losing count of the days .
45 Dustbins ( either metal or plastic ) must be to British Standards — look for the ‘ kitemark ’ .
46 There is no appeal from the decision of a county court registrar to the county court judge ; the appeal must be to a single judge -of the High Court ( Re a Debtor ( No 39 of 1974 ) ( 1977 ) 3 All ER489 ) .
47 ‘ That Lehzen handed over to the nation a potentially great queen must be to her credit ’ ( Longford ) .
48 In the view of the Director of the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education , there is an iron curtain separating public sector higher education in Wales from the University of Wales whose existence must be to the detriment of the young people of Wales .
49 In the case of a company without share capital the return will give no particulars of the members ; to ascertain that , resort must be to the company .
50 This contrasts with the racial hatred offence , where the distribution must be to the public or a section of the public .
51 My responsibility must be to truth , not to society , which is corrupt .
52 The objectives in setting a fee structure must be to :
53 Their conclusion was that most of the road signs in such studies are in fact initially detected and that differences found between signs and the poor overall performance in the Johansson and Rumar study must be to a large extent a memory effect .
54 The speaker who uses it feels himself or herself to be stating , with an explicitness not found in the merely qualifying adjective , even when it is ascriptive , that the property expressed does hold of the entity identified by the whole noun phrase ; an inevitable concomitant is that the postnominal adjective must be to a certain extent salient in the situation where it is used .
55 The ‘ peak ’ organizations of business and labour are granted a special consultative status in return for their co-operation ( Schmitter 1979 ) Some corporatists maintain that within a capitalist economy such negotiations must be to the advantage of monopoly capital , since labour forgoes its local , workplace autonomy in favour of its corporate leadership .
56 I think the committee as a whole wanted to be cautious because as has been said earlier our main prime responsibility must be to those who need rest home or nursing home care and have nobody else to fund them .
57 The application must be to the district judge if made by him ( Ord 29 , r 3(2) ) .
58 Our principle function within the policy development department within N C V O must be to work with , and not simply for our member and the wider sector .
59 The intended effect , within the province , must be to so terrify the nationalist population that more will turn their backs on Sinn Fein and the IRA .
60 He likes the blend of the two jobs , the one selfish because successful sportsmen must be to a greater or lesser degree , the other caring .
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