Example sentences of "he [be] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Gazza should now be encouraged , not discouraged , and then disillusioned to find out that he is to be overlooked until next February . |
| 32 | But after ramming their words back down their throats his enormous smile shows how delighted he is to be a golden oldie ! |
| 33 | Lascube has served his suspension , as did Moscato , but the latter will have to show that his discipline has improved before he is to be considered for selection again . |
| 34 | The standard has been set by Penny 's monumental work , and he is to be heartily congratulated for his achievement . |
| 35 | The member of parliament did not give up his efforts to find a place for the young officer , but the close connection between parliamentary politics and placement was made abundantly clear by Scott 's insistence to his correspondent that the young man 's father , a Dundee councillor , would first have to make clear ‘ whether he is to be friendly ’ to the politician . |
| 36 | In his final commentary , however , he is to be found mourning the loss of faith : |
| 37 | Within his own country , he is not so much a Leviathan as a Gulliver figure hemmed in and tied down by a complex network of restraints that must be thrown off if he is to be more than a helpless giant in the White House . |
| 38 | He is to be congratulated on his excellent choice of guardian angels . |
| 39 | The reader 's expectation is to be satisfied by the unexpected : he is to be taken away from normal concerns by events of an exaggerated , heightened nature , often taking place in exotic , distant surroundings . |
| 40 | The years of training in which Marco has learned from his father to be brave and loyal , to be secret and silent , are now to be proved : he is to be the messenger . |
| 41 | The relationship has not always been pointed out in discussions of Freud 's work , and yet it is an essential one if he is to be properly understood . |
| 42 | It is precisely because Herbert Marcuse , for example , has retained the notion of the death instincts that he is to be seen as having advanced psychoanalytic sociology and social philosophy . |
| 43 | Even if the witness is willing , the law of the place in which he is to be examined may be such as to render the examination inadequate . |
| 44 | God has a stupendous commission for Moses — he is to be God 's messenger to Pharaoh , and lead his people to freedom — but the missionary is most reluctant . |
| 45 | He is to be approached only in the ways he lays down . |
| 46 | 1 Inform patient quietly that he is to be transferred to theatre . |
| 47 | The more the analyst knows about the features of context , the more likely he is to be able to predict what is likely to be said ( see 2.4 ) . |
| 48 | If he is to be totally unbiased when making his observations , then he will be obliged to record not only the readings on various meters , the presence or absence of sparks at various critical locations in the electrical circuits , the dimensions of the circuit etc. but also the colour of the meters , the dimensions of the laboratory , the state of the weather , the size of his shoes and a whole host of ‘ clearly irrelevant ’ details , irrelevant , that is , to the kind of theory in which Hertz was interested and which he was testing . |
| 49 | He is to be ‘ treated as entitled to the deposit without the intervention of any trust . ’ |
| 50 | If the accused , by reason of being the controlling shareholder or otherwise , is ‘ the directing mind and will of the company ’ he is to be treated as having validly consented on behalf of the company to his own appropriation of the company 's property . |
| 51 | Boswell quotes Samuel Johnson as saying , " Depend upon it , Sir , when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully . |
| 52 | the organisational objectives as gauged by an individual need to be compatible with personal objectives of the individual if he is to be a well-integrated member of the organisation . |
| 53 | I see , she thought , he is to be the one who is rejected ; that is how it is to be . |
| 54 | He has also been advised that he is to be presented with an award from the Royal Yachting Association Seamanship Foundations by HRH the Princess Royal on 9 January . |
| 55 | If revaluation of his security is necessary , resulting in a greater shortfall , he is to be treated as the creditors referred to in the previous paragraph . |
| 56 | In the late 1260s and early 1270s he is to be found acting as the business agent of the west midland baron John de Verdun . |
| 57 | Between 1193 and 1201 it is possible that he is to be identified with a master Elias , steward to Gilbert de Glanville , bishop of Rochester [ q.v. ] , a close friend and kinsman of Hubert Walter . |
| 58 | Less likely , but by no means impossible , is the suggestion that he is to be identified with a man named master Elias the engineer , or Elias of Oxford , who prior to 1201 had charge of the king 's houses in Oxford and of various castle-building operations across southern England . |
| 59 | In 1274 he is to be found acting as a baron of the Exchequer . |
| 60 | As regards contracts of employment , it is provided that he is to be liable on any contract of employment adopted by him but nothing he does or omits to do in the first 14 days of his appointment is to be taken as adoption of the contract . |