Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] is to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they become enmeshed in a desperate struggle about who is to be the baby . |
| 2 | Thus , value-laden choices about what to study are also supported by value-dependent prescriptions about what is to be done . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | For each SCOTVEC module , there is an associated module descriptor which is essentially a description of what is to be covered and how . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Indeed one might well say that , through this augmentation of what is to be considered male , the male now absorbs all in himself . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ] . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Another problem , and one that was intimated in the previous paragraph , is the question of who is to be considered accountable to whom . |
| 16 | These images build up into stereotypes ; generalizations about what is to be expected of older people , which are based at best on partial information rather than the full diversity of their real lives . |
| 17 | The fundamental question , as posed by Foucault , is how is it that in our society sex is seen not just as a means of biological reproduction nor a source of harmless pleasure , but , on the contrary , has come to be seen as the central part of our being , the privileged site in which the truth of ourselves is to be found ? |
| 18 | Advertising objectives are more or less specific statements of what is to be achieved by advertising , in terms of ( for example ) increased awareness , or improved scores on certain attitude scales . |
| 19 | Like the differences discussed earlier in this chapter , the split between holists and individualists over what is to be accepted as given runs extremely deep , and can not readily be resolved on its own . |
| 20 | The young Edward Fitzgerald , who became a sceptic , wrote to his friend Thackeray , ‘ I think the evidence for them is to be doubted . |
| 21 | The allocation of labour to particular activities in the contract programme is a skilled task which requires both a knowledge of what is to be done as well as the likely outputs of the people employed . |
| 22 | Then there is that numerous class of people for whom ‘ seeing people off ’ is a bit of an outing , not one minute of which is to be lost . |
| 23 | But here we can not consider what is abnormal , we must confine our study of formal principles to what is to be found in most Western music . |
| 24 | As noted above a plan is essential to the proper description of a property , and this is especially so in the case of leases the title to which is to be registered ( Chapter 12 ) , and indeed of leases of flats in general . |
| 25 | The new city is to be built as a film set and life in it is to be broadcast as a TV spectacle . |
| 26 | Decisions should be made at the outset on what is to be covered in the programme . |
| 27 | What has been done supplies the framework of justification for what is to be done . |
| 28 | And surely , it can be argued , the understanding of what is to be ordered and who is to be disciplined has long been defined and subject to the practical mastery of the controllers . |
| 29 | But such a move does nothing for women , or for the concept of the feminine per se : it expands our understanding of what is to be considered authentically male . |
| 30 | Talk of the Spirit as female may moreover once again tend to fuel a certain understanding of what is to be considered feminine . |