Example sentences of "[pron] be 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has shown that the old concept of great apes ( family Pongidae ) , as distinct from humans ( family Hominidae ) , is no longer valid because the African apes and humans are more closely related to each other than any of them are to the orang-utan .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 | I been to hospital once to visit someone . |
| 17 | I been to the country once with Annie . |
| 18 | Even in places I been to hundreds of times . |
| 19 | Where had I been to ? |
| 20 | I been to New York only a short while back . ’ |
| 21 | Admittedly there 's nothing else as inane as the tale of Froggie and Miss Mousey among the 13 tracks on Good As I Been To You ( Columbia ) — but neither is there anything actually written by Dylan . |
| 22 | But it 's the difference between the wheezing , cracked , crumbling voice on ‘ Good As I Been To You ’ and the supine , delicate wonderment of Young 's voice on ‘ Harvest Moon ’ which marks the astonishing chasm between the two albums . |
| 23 | What have I been to him ? ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Sir Robert Brackenbury , constable of the Tower , informed me this morning that my brother and I are to be moved . ’ |
| 26 | You know Victor and I are to be married . |
| 27 | ‘ For your information , Lucy and I are to be married — as soon as possible . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Lucy and I are to be married . ’ |
| 29 | I am to be Bishop of Durham . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I am to some extent on home ground there , ’ she said , reluctantly and not looking at him . |