Example sentences of "[pron] are to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In return for a cessation of violence , amnesties have been granted to the Furs and a number of them are to be co-opted onto the Government . |
| 2 | Some of them are to be found in Checkmate when the Red Pawns pick their way from square to square , whilst their Queen guides her King to his throne with tender steps . |
| 3 | There are vast differences between the two , of course ; but not all of them are to the latter 's credit . |
| 4 | As no vocal chords as we know them are to be found in the larynx , the sounds emitted probably come from the lips of the larynx . |
| 5 | The ‘ Executive ’ formulates policies , procures the passing of the necessary laws , puts the policies into effect and even , on occasion , determines the mode , if any , in which disputes arising out of them are to be determined . |
| 6 | Few of them are to be found in the top echelons of racing . |
| 7 | Surviving Japanese aircraft are few and far between , recent trends to collect and exhibit them are to be encouraged , they represent a fount of experience and knowledge that has only slightly been dipped into . |
| 8 | Molecular evidence has shown that the old concept of great apes ( family Pongidae ) , as distinct from humans ( family Hominidae ) , is no longer valid because the African apes and humans are more closely related to each other than any of them are to the orang-utan . |
| 9 | In such circumstances it is absolutely necessary that the school should have an admissions policy of some kind in order to select from all those who have expressed such preference which of them are to be accepted and which rejected . |
| 10 | Most of them are to be found in a narrow range of occupations and over half are office or secretarial workers [ see Table 2.5 ] . |
| 11 | I think every , all the benefits should definitely be means tested , I know that most of them are to a degree . |
| 12 | But , if equity shares or rights to them are to be issued in other circumstances , they first have to be offered to all equity shareholders in proportion to their holdings whether or not these were acquired as subscribers ' shares , bonus shares or pursuant to an employees ' share scheme . |
| 13 | Most of them are to be found in southern and Mediterranean Europe , an area in terms of its society and institutions closer to France than to Prussia or Russia . |
| 14 | Though most of them are to my boring straight tastes profoundly unerotic , the process is interesting none the less and I have a new hero : the Earl of Rochester . |
| 15 | Disputes under them are to be referred to arbitration , where contracts made on a particular exchange are in issue , and otherwise to the English courts . |
| 16 | Rosita and I are to be punished , stuck there with long faces , alongside our fellow wrong-doers , representations of swarthy people , black as tea taken without milk . |
| 17 | Sir Robert Brackenbury , constable of the Tower , informed me this morning that my brother and I are to be moved . ’ |
| 18 | You know Victor and I are to be married . |
| 19 | ‘ For your information , Lucy and I are to be married — as soon as possible . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Lucy and I are to be married . ’ |
| 21 | We ourselves are to some extent part of this problem , but we do at least live and work in the village full time . |
| 22 | Neither of these works , nor two more which are to be discussed , have attempted to integrate Eastern with Western art . |
| 23 | This is a totalizing view of society , and implies a certain anti-pluralism : freedom of belief and action within certain parameters , which are to be decided either by those who appear righteous in the sight of God or by those who , at least , conform in their lawmaking to the advice given to them by the righteous . |
| 24 | The group was analysing the results , which are to be discussed by a local central committee plenum today . |
| 25 | That would involve monitoring the ‘ indicative ’ budgets which are to be given to GPs to ensure that there is no wasteful or excessive prescribing . |
| 26 | The event 's promoter will pay an agreed fee to the PRS for the works which are to be performed , and a payment is then made by the PRS to the writers and publishers for the works listed as being played . |
| 27 | Opposition groups are preparing to take on the Communist Party in Bulgaria 's first free elections for more than 40 years which are to be fixed by next May , but dissident leaders have called for a postponement . |
| 28 | ACONSERVATION group has lost its High Court fight to save eight listed buildings in the City of London which are to be demolished by the property developer , Mr Peter Palumbo . |
| 29 | However , an exception is to be made for appeler n and jeter ( and their derivatives ) , which are to be allowed to continue to double their last consonant on the ground that these verbs are ‘ more fixed in common usage ’ . |
| 30 | New directors led by chairman Roy Barber , a company doctor , have now been installed at la Grande Arche and have ordered an independent review of its properties , some of which are to be sold . |