Example sentences of "[ex0] [be] to be " in BNC.

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31 Thirdly , there is a concern to explain to the Community that if there are to be compensations , we can not create a whole new system of compensatory payments which will last for ever at a price which will never be able to be paid .
32 It is a threat because the Government have sat back willingly and said that they do not care if another 30 million tonnes of coal is taken out of the take and if there are to be gas-fired power stations .
33 There are to be different banding systems for Scotland , Wales and England to take account of the fact that they are separate nations .
34 There are to be 4,000 copies of that document , and it is purported to be printed and published by Cath Ball at 110 Union street , Oldham .
35 I say this in the presence of the Leader of the House : if , heaven help us , there are to be sanctions or if military action is to take place , there should at least be some statement to the House of Commons and a three-hour debate before we go further down that perilous road .
36 There are to be none of those ‘ hamburgers ’ either . ’
37 There are to be no speeches and no sermons .
38 I start with the defendant 's first two points , that is to say , if there are to be side letters they have to be incorporated into the main agreement , and these were not incorporated .
39 There are to be no further scenes on the stage , no deviations from the rehearsals .
40 If there are to be dismissals in connection with a sale , and there often are , the key questions that the parties will want answered are : ( 1 ) What are the liabilities in respect of any dismissals ? ( 2 ) Who bears the cost , the vendor or the purchaser ? ( 3 ) How can the liability be avoided ?
41 And there are to be no special exemptions for disabled drivers .
42 There are to be 5,000 more student places next year , biased to science and engineering , and then a freeze on recruitment for two years .
43 There are to be new rules for lorries carrying explosives following yesterday 's explosion at Peterborough .
44 If there were to be a programme of comparable generosity to the new democracies , it would be necessary to reduce some category of expenditure within the industrial countries .
45 There were to be twenty-five surface ships , each armed with eight Polaris missiles .
46 The autonomy of the Kurdish zone was to be strengthened , in an area expanded to include Kirkuk ; there were to be new and free elections to Kurdish councils ; the Kurds , having asked for a fair share of oil revenue , would be allotted 25–30% of the total Iraqi budget .
47 There were to be no aisles , crosses or altars ; the pulpit must be against the end wall facing the congregation .
48 There were to be a lot of evacuations in the coming years , by land , sea and air , each accompanied by promises from departing residents that their absence would only be temporary .
49 After the Poema there were to be no more serious attempts to re-tell the life of El Cid with any fidelity to actual events .
50 There were to be stalls , Guide and Brownie plays , competitions , a Brownie magic pool , fancy-dress parades and various other exciting things .
51 The outcome of the exercise in the White Paper , I think , had three main parts : one was a new think-tank , the Central Policy Review Staff , which presumably reflected some of the stuff you 'd seen in the United States at Rand and so on ; the other was a new system of , I suppose you would call it , zero-based budgeting , where you would look at longstanding government commitments and see if they should stagger on — that was Programme Analysis and Review ; and , to reduce the weight on Cabinet , there were to be big conglomerate departments , which led to the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of the Environment .
52 There were to be no Cup ties .
53 There were to be two aisles , one at each side of a central block of pews and then pews at each side .
54 At the local level there were to be branch juvenile exchanges and wherever possible branch care committees , and the duties of both corresponded to those of their London counterparts .
55 The steady erosion from astronomical to merely high has at least been good for morale : a further cut after the holidays might just jolly people into voting Tory if there were to be an autumn election .
56 There were to be diversionary rebellions in Scotland and the north of England , supported perhaps by spontaneous risings in other areas like the already restive Midlands , but the main effort was to be in the south-west , centred on Bath .
57 There were to be times when education was to be secondary to his role as a mediator .
58 There were to be no negotiations with Willingdon .
59 To start with , there were to be 80 attainment targets per child , and the tests were to take 30 hours .
60 ‘ I heard there were to be fireworks , ’ Sean said .
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