Example sentences of "[det] [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Widnes bitterly complained about the unfairness of the situation saying — quite rightly — that if incidents like that are to be pulled out you would need 26 cameras — for every player . |
| 2 | Does he agree that it is the height of irresponsibility to try to pretend that there can be a massive increase in spending from day one of a Government if the tax increases to pay for that are to be phased in ? |
| 3 | UNIVERSITY administrators who wasted £11.3 million of taxpayers ' money by re-employing more than 200 redundant academics given ‘ golden goodbyes ’ averaging £80,000 each are to be summoned by the Commons public accounts committee to explain their mistakes . |
| 4 | A note in a dated 1 Sha'ban 963/10 June 1556 concerning the number of to be appointed in the of that year mentions that four new each are to be accepted from the kadis of Istanbul , Edirne , Bursa and Egypt and two each from the kadis of Damascus , Aleppo and Baghdad . |
| 5 | When sites such as this are to be destroyed , it is important that the building above the ground is recorded before it is destroyed . |
| 6 | Although sheep numbers in Sussex have now risen to nearly pre-war numbers , comparatively few are to be found on permanent downland pasture . |
| 7 | I am waiting for it eagerly , as so few are to one 's mind in these days . |
| 8 | The disadvantage of the latter system is that there is a tendency to stuff all the envelopes in a section with the material simply because it is easier than going through m all , and because the gaps will have to be made up envelopes wasted if only a few are to left out of one section . |
| 9 | Some are to this day . |
| 10 | Mental handicap can be caused by a wide range of medical , social and environmental factors , of which some are to an extent preventable . |
| 11 | Some are to be found in the bad effects of traditional ‘ god-worship ’ on the ethical behaviour of the individual . |
| 12 | The Junior Section has between 30 to 40 members but some are to be promoted to the Senior Section which has fewer members . |
| 13 | The Junior Section has between 30 to 40 members but some are to be promoted to the Senior Section which has fewer members . |
| 14 | Variations in numbers of additions from one cylinder to another are to be expected . |
| 15 | If this were to be applied unmodified , since the displacement of the stylus varies inversely with frequency , the amplitude of the waveform cut in the disc at low frequencies would be very large . |
| 16 | Two lives are bound together by a cord , and if this were to be broken prematurely , one would die . |
| 17 | However , evidence suggests that non-business travel is also important and can cover 67 per cent of all movement ( Clark and Unwin 1981 ) ; if this were to be substantially reduced by remote linkages by telephone or other means , the consequences for continued viability of still more rural public transport routes could be serious , especially where comparatively minor variations in demand can be critical . |
| 18 | If this were to be so , it would make a mockery of the caution and the concept of the right to silence after a charge has been preferred . |
| 19 | The new organizations catering for this were to be economically more efficient and culturally more bland than the popular movements of the first half of the century . |
| 20 | And if this were to be their last meeting , then should they perhaps not waste it all in talk ? |
| 21 | No decisions would ever be made if this were to be demanded . |
| 22 | If this were to be the case then no deficiency " at all would be noticed in the behaviour of the funnel . |
| 23 | If this were to be the position when goods perish after the risk has passed to the buyer , it would be a contradiction in terms . |
| 24 | With uncertain optimism , the report concludes that ‘ if this were to be achieved , we consider that prosperity , once created , could spread in the same way as blight has done in the past ’ . |
| 25 | " Even if this were to be a case of maternal transmission , it would have no significance for public health " . |
| 26 | Some were to be tenanted by cooks , washerwomen , labourers and grooms . |
| 27 | To imagine this is to be aware that the aggressive term which I have applied to Amis 's novelistic method , ‘ ventriloquism ’ , has the drawback of suggesting that when an author throws his voice , the character who receives it will necessarily be found to be inanimate , a dummy . |
| 28 | The physical mark of this is to be seen in the indentation between the upper lip and the nose . |
| 29 | This is to the benefit of both parties . |
| 30 | When he has tovarisch say , ‘ Nothing I build ’ , this is to be understood not allegorically but literally : working of stone , either architecturally or sculpturally , was for Pound the register of culture — a conviction which he shared in his lifetime with few except the British art-critic whom he knew and esteemed , Adrian Stokes . |