Example sentences of "to [be] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | Ellsworth Kelly first saw Paris in 1944 at the age of twenty-one after the Normandy landing ; the young marine can not have imagined then how important that city was to be to his artistic career . |
| 32 | Indeed , here one can detect a good example of how rich one has to be to be poor : precisely because a poor family can not afford expensive but once-and-for-all repairs ( assuming such repairs to be feasible ) , household maintenance must either be neglected , or undertaken in a cheap but piecemeal fashion , where any improvement is partial and temporary in its effect . |
| 33 | ‘ These louts who , long ago , should have been smacked on the behind by their parents ’ excited Sir Marcus Lipton , who was something of a Parliamentary dove on these occasions , no less than Mr Gerald Nabarro who considered that ‘ a proper policy ought to be to ‘ whack the thugs ' ’ ’ . |
| 34 | If , at first , his rule had appeared to be to the benefit of France , in the last years it had suffered considerable setbacks . |
| 35 | Because their tour of duty usually lasted no more than three or four years their primary loyalties were thought to be to their careers in the Home Office at large . |
| 36 | After the wedding , they were taken for breakfast to the house of the officiating priest which by curious coincidence happened to be to Kensington Church Walk , where Ezra Pound had lived many years before . |
| 37 | Hard-line street life does n't sit easily with the girls ' culture , and for all their stylish revolt , in the end the only way to belong seems to be to be part of the community of women . |
| 38 | Other claims used to be to a maximum of £5000 . |
| 39 | It is necessary for normal science to be to a large extent uncritical . |
| 40 | It would suggest that when faced with a choice between a case which rests on constitutional theories about limited government derived from a ‘ higher law ’ which controlled what government could legitimately do , and a case which rested on actual practices of government bolstered by actual law , the jury preferred the theory of what the constitution ought to be to the practice of what it is . |
| 41 | It is both ‘ the response of ordinary people to trends in government practices which seem to them to be , in perhaps indefinable ways , wrong ’ and a preference for ‘ the theory of what the constitution ought to be to the practice of what it is ’ . |
| 42 | That William and Mary Prince and Princesse of Orange bee and bee declared , King and Queen of England France and Ireland and the Dominions there unto belonging to hold the Crowne and Roy all Dignity of the said Kingdom 's and Dominions to them the said Prince and Princesss during their lives and the life of the Survivor of them and that the Sole and full exercise of the Regall Power be only in and executed by the said Prince of Orange in the Names of the said Prince and Princesse during their Joynt lives And after their deceases the said Crowne and Roy all Dignity of the said Kingdoms and Dominions to be to the heires of the body of the said Princesse : And for default of such Issue to the Princesse Anne of Denmarke and the heires of her body . |
| 43 | ‘ It 'll have to be to Mr Rosen , Frank . |
| 44 | Knowing Wigg , I warned him that to pursue the matter for any other reason would be discreditable and in the long run would be sure to be to his detriment . |
| 45 | Even when the habit can not be broken , stopping a patient smoking temporarily — for example , preoperatively — will often to be to the patient 's and the hospital 's advantage . |
| 46 | or " click mill " would seem to be to one at Balmavicar ( Ballyvicar ? ) and windmills represented only by Loch a Mhuilinn-Ghaoith-Windmill Loch . |
| 47 | I do n't I mean probably it 's just to be to the safe side . |
| 48 | Probably were n't I do n't know but they seemed to us I may be looking at it from a child 's eyes but er that 's how they seemed to be to me . |
| 49 | And enabled us to be to be known throughout the local streets , the local shopkeepers and such like . |
| 50 | I think the first thing is to improve the appearance , because the area itself appears to me to be to be thriving . |
| 51 | They have to be to each other what Minny and I are . |
| 52 | First , the authority of the lecturer in the teaching relationship has to be to some degree granted by the student . |
| 53 | So above all acknowledgments , I want to thank God for his inexpressible generosity in giving the Holy Spirit to us fallen human beings , to be to us both the means of grace and the hope of glory . |
| 54 | It tends to be to be for local production rather than for export . |
| 55 | To be to be honest i I , I , it 's been , the presentation I 've given tonight has been slightly different , it 's the first time I tried it and it was really successful . |
| 56 | Thus the percentage of the poll gained by UUUC was again over 50% in the third election within fifteen months and the result of the election suggests again that the majority of voters in Northern Ireland will not have an institutionalised Irish dimension and that they are profoundly suspicious of any party which is prepared to share power with those whose explicit or implicit aim seems to be to " destroy the state " . |
| 57 | Secondly , an exemption clause may be partially effective if it is shown to be to some extent reasonable . |
| 58 | Marriage , though it was to be to a priest , and thus well within her world , represented an escape from her family . |
| 59 | The prospect of environmental catastrophe has shown us how fragile life is , how inter-dependent we all are , how difficult it is going to be to find our way out — and how important ideas are going to be to finding it . |
| 60 | He declared the new administration 's " first step " to be to " re-activate our industry " and to " give people a freer hand for greater participation in economic activities " . |