Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [be] to be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The creative way of handling tensions is to be prepared to forgive right from the beginning .
2 If accounting reports are to be useful , therefore , we must define the users of those reports and the uses to which they put them .
3 There is no such thing as bad publicity , and sometimes the only way to force change is to be anti-social and become a problem which eventually the authorities have to deal with .
4 The physical and organizational settings in which children 's learning took place were to be all-important , and the combination of PNP resourcing , advisory effort and enhanced school staffing were all to be directed to their improvement , or to establishing what advisory staff termed ‘ the quality learning environment ’ .
5 The point of introducing averages is to be able to show that the ideal type is relevant to the actual world .
6 If the machinery of planning control is to be effective , some means of enforcement is essential .
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