Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] [be] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the deal , the implementing contract for which was to be negotiated over the following 12 months , enriched uranium reportedly totalling 500 tonnes would be sold by Russia for hard currency needed to complete urgent repairs to its nuclear power plants . |
| 2 | The Leningrad historian , R.G. Skrynnikov , has suggested , though not without challenge , that it was in 1582 rather than 1581 , that the first foray or ‘ expedition ’ of cossack conquistadors under the leadership of ataman Yermak Timofeevich scored an unspectacular military victory over the tiny Tatar princedom of Sibir , then ruled by Khan Kuchum , thus laying the foundations for what was to be the irresistible Russian Drang nach Osten . |
| 3 | With effect from March 7 , small businesses with up to 20 staff could operate within a largely free-enterprise regime , precise rules for which were to be formulated by a new National Committee for Small Enterprises . |
| 4 | Then they become enmeshed in a desperate struggle about who is to be the baby . |
| 5 | Thus , value-laden choices about what to study are also supported by value-dependent prescriptions about what is to be done . |
| 6 | Yes , I think that the crucial thing that 's emerging , especially from the area of artificial intelligence , is that we 're beginning to understand that what the name of the game is getting people to express their intentions , and for a long time we 've been , as it were , stuck in languages that do n't really help you to do that and we 're really beginning to understand now that erm what people are doing when they program indeed , I mean as it were the ace programmers , are expressing their intention for whatever 's to be done in the task the computer 's to perform clearly . |
| 7 | The atmosphere is good-humoured , with a strong sense of relief that adults can for a few moments get together without thinking of what is to be done next with twenty or thirty demanding , stimulating and occasionally frustrating children . |
| 8 | A comedy of aspects of which are to be taken to extremes . |
| 9 | Thus it was Floridablanca , a stiff bureaucrat , who planned the road system radiating from Madrid , the completion of which was to be the achievement of Isabelline liberalism ; indeed , the fate of the Corps of Road Engineers , set up in the eighteenth century , was bound up with the fate of liberalism itself ; dismantled by Ferdinand VII it was set up by the Liberal Revolution in 1820 ; dissolved in the reaction of 1823 , it was re-established by liberals in 1834 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Candidates for their first post were generally distinguished , where necessary , as " new ; but as the present discussion is concerned almost entirely with these " new the term mulazim by itself is to be understood in that sense unless otherwise noted . |
| 12 | It was announced on Jan. 22 that Italy was providing aid estimated at US$142,000,000 , part of which was to be used to assist in the reintegration of demobilized soldiers into civilian life . |
| 13 | The Paris to Rouen railway was being extended to Le Havre , and the line cut straight through Dr Flaubert 's land ; part of it was to be compulsorily purchased . |
| 14 | She came towards him ; in her eyes he could see the dread of what was to be . |
| 15 | This returns again and again in a variety of contexts , but the theological heart of it is to be found in the development of a theology of the Church as a communion of ‘ churches ’ . |
| 16 | For each SCOTVEC module , there is an associated module descriptor which is essentially a description of what is to be covered and how . |
| 17 | The description will also include all exceptions and reservations in favour of the seller , the benefit of which is to be sold to the buyer . |
| 18 | A blend of methodologies and careful selection of stimulus materials is valuable but above all a clearly enunciated plan of what is to be taught and assessed is the necessary prerequisite . |
| 19 | His work , the main fruits of which are to be found in his book , Law in the Modern State , aimed to construct a science of public law entirely on empirical foundations . |
| 20 | In a meeting with the King on 3 October 1688 , the bishops asked James to dissolve the Commission for Ecclesiastical Causes , and promise never to erect " any such court again " , to " desist from the Exercise of such a Dispensing power as hath of late been used " ( the determination of which was to be left to Parliament ) , to restore the corporations and the universities , and to give office only to those who were legally qualified . |
| 21 | Fishing under licence was to continue within the original 150-mile zone , but no fishing was to be allowed in the new zone , to be regarded as an area of Anglo-Argentine co-operation , the eastern half of which was to be patrolled by the Falklands and the western half by Argentina since it overlapped with part of its 200-mile territorial waters . |
| 22 | Indeed one might well say that , through this augmentation of what is to be considered male , the male now absorbs all in himself . |
| 23 | The academic establishment refused to entertain the possibility that this doctrine was of any wider significance to criminal law beyond the local issue of what is to be done with the drunken offender and , within that narrow compass , that the doctrine was coherent or justifiable . |
| 24 | The dominance of economic terms of reference , to the possible detriment of clients , rather than matters of public service can also be seen over the issue of who was to be accepted as a member of the scheme . |
| 25 | The compromise plan involved a phased US withdrawal over a three-year period , the modalities of which were to be worked out by a special panel which would be chaired by the chief presidential aide , Franklin Drilon . |
| 26 | The second major respect in which the assertion of the social rights of citizens has become more important is that it expresses the claims of very diverse groups in society to equal treatment , and at the same time broadens considerably the range of what are to be regarded as social rights . |
| 27 | The six fabliaux selected for summarizing here are , if in any way at all , only slightly untypical in being generally longer than average , this being an efficient way of conveying something of the range of what is to be found amongst the French fabliaux . |
| 28 | Property speculators in particular are addressing themselves to the question of what is to be done with the vast stretches of land once occupied by watch towers , border guards , dogs and rabbits . |
| 29 | There is also a large and venerable literature on the nature and purposes of higher education , which rings with names such as Newman , Veblen , Ortega y Gasset , and Jaspers [ see Powell 's bibliography ( 1966 , 1971 ) , and there have been many more recent examples but such writing likewise tends to be rather general , and only by extension addresses the question of what is to be taught in curricular terms ; but see Goodlad 1976 ; Barnett 1985 ] . |
| 30 | Doubt can play a very useful role in resisting credulity and naivety , but to argue that only if you doubt can you arrive at the truth ( a position of scepticism ) is to disregard the question of what is to be known . |