Example sentences of "[verb] how [pers pn] [be] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scribe knows that they have a lot more to say and wonders how it is to be fitted into 3000 words . |
| 2 | What I said to you yesterday , I hinted that there were difficulties we do n't know how they are to be resolved . |
| 3 | It is perhaps more likely that Freeman has been deceived by the fact that the linguistic patterning of King Lear so under-determines how it is to be interpreted that it is compatible with his and a large number of other theories of metaphor which all equally predict it , and hence appear to explain it . |
| 4 | The words ‘ in connection with ’ have the widest connotation and I can not see how they are to be restricted in the absence of some context permitting such restriction . |
| 5 | The fact that he did not see how it was to be preserved was another matter . |
| 6 | When children do arrive , it is their parents , not their grandparents , who should decide how they are to be brought up . |
| 7 | All local plans are intended to develop in detail the broad structure plan policies and indicate how they are to be applied on the ground . |
| 8 | If , for example , I am engaged in reading a text on a subject in which I am well versed ( where the ideational or content schema is familiar ) , which has been written in a manner conventionally associated with writing on this subject ( where the interpersonal or formal schema is familiar ) , then I shall only need to pay attention to the linguistic signs to the extent that they key in this schematic knowledge and indicate how it is to be extended . |
| 9 | Time should be spent early in the negotiations concentrating on the conditions precedent and determining how they are to be satisfied . |
| 10 | Or the clause may not say how they are to be paid , in which case this should be covered at the time of fixing the procedure . |
| 11 | They should state how they are to be published or intimated to persons interested . |