Example sentences of "[pers pn] is to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her religious sensibility is much nearer to that of the affective Franciscan devotion just as his is to the Dominican tradition of speculative thought . |
| 2 | She is saying that this good thing , this knowledge , can be used — to tell us , for example , that Amis is not a Tudor writer : but she is rather more moved to say at the same time that it ca n't or can hardly be used , devoted as she is to the thought of a separation between , in this case , Amis 's friendships and politics , his life — and his art . |
| 3 | She is to me and many others , the best tennis player in the world today , even if she is No 2 it wo n't be long before she is back on top where she belongs . |
| 4 | Likewise in the case of Lewis 's Eve : if she is ransomed by Ransom 's struggle with the Un-Man in the underworld , a sort of Harrowing of Hell sequence , how can she be said to have resisted the temptation on her own ; and if she has not really resisted through her own strength — if she is to be rewarded with immortality and felicity for something she has not done herself — where is the justice in the punishment , on another planet , of Eve and her descendants , for something which again was not wholly her responsibility ? |
| 5 | Besides , she is to be got downstairs , and how is that to be managed ? |
| 6 | Broadly speaking , the higher an individual is in the social strata the less likely he or she is to be arrested , prosecuted and ( if prosecuted ) found guilty . |
| 7 | The leader or high priest(ess) is chosen for the quality of psychic power exhibited , and how open he or she is to the life-force . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll bet she is to , ’ he told himself , as he tried to picture her as she was when he last saw her . |
| 9 | Poor Lucy , he 's a dreadful embarrassment to her , nearly as bad as she is to him . ’ |
| 10 | That is , if she is to be believed . |
| 11 | Make up two sentences to show if she is to be told or not — watch them as you say them — hear them in your mind 's ear . |
| 12 | However , he learns to his anger and dismay that she is to be married . |
| 13 | In February , by contrast , she is to be one of Mr Wroe 's Virgins in BBC2 's serialisation of the Jane Rogers novel about a 19th-century religious sect . |
| 14 | SCREEN goddess Liz Taylor is furious that she is to be portrayed by Raquel Welch , the star she dislikes more than any other , in a film . |
| 15 | She is to be sentenced later . |
| 16 | ‘ She appreciates how busy Diana is but this shows just how loyal she is to her friends . |
| 17 | Now , as we report on Page 15 , she is to be parted from the nursery school children whose friendship has helped to restore her health and build her confidence . |
| 18 | This crowded historical panorama of war and the power of beauty describes the birth of Ayesha as the mortal daughter of noble Arabian parents but suggests in recounting her long training in mysticism under an Egyptian priest and her guardianship of the Fire of Immortality in the shrine at Kôr that she is to be regarded in part as a spiritual being . |
| 19 | Carlotta de Leyva belongs to one of the liberal families opposed to the dictator Lopez and as the betrothed of the leader of that opposition , Don Manuel of Encinitas , she is to some extent a figurehead , a political symbol : moreover , to the youth of eighteen , Highworth Ridden , who is introduced to her soon after his arrival in Santa Barbara , she is an ideal because she is in effect the first woman who has ever touched his love , as someone to be served , not someone to aspire to . |
| 20 | " recommend earnestly to them to purchase Timber , that may answer the purpose , from the wreck of the Brig stranded on Duich Bay , if she is to be broken up … " |
| 21 | The more I see of her , the more I realise how much of a stranger she is to me . |
| 22 | There is no further mention of Ambrosia in the records , and possibly she is to be identified with the ‘ Dame Ambroise de Saint-Joire ’ named in 1288 among the first entrants to the Carthusian nunnery of Melan ( Haute-Savoie ) founded in 1282 by Beatrice de Faucigny . |
| 23 | It is significant that the court held that ‘ in a criminal case of this nature , where the wife is the party grieved and on whom the crime is committed , she is to be admitted a witness against her husband ’ and there is no specific mention of a marital rape exemption by any party at any stage of the proceedings . |
| 24 | She is to be chained hand and foot . |
| 25 | She is to be congratulated on the beauty of the pictures , the wealth of information she imparted on so many aspects and the most comprehensive display of books and articles created by Shetlanders . |
| 26 | So the idea is that the more difficult the the situation the mother finds herself is in the more likely she is to spontaneously abort and the more likely any retained er foetus is to be normal an and , and to , and not to have any defects . |
| 27 | She is to be artist of the month at Darlington Art Gallery in September . |
| 28 | MAUDE Alice Rand is 107 today and she is to be wished many happy returns by the Queen , the Queen Mother and the Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 29 | If she is not there you will find a notice on her door telling you where she is to be found . |
| 30 | As she is to be moving house and garden this year , she foresees a ceremonial tree-planting as a follow-up to the presentation . |