Example sentences of "[adj] that [pron] is to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1193 and 1201 it is possible that he is to be identified with a master Elias , steward to Gilbert de Glanville , bishop of Rochester [ q.v. ] , a close friend and kinsman of Hubert Walter . |
| 2 | However , it is unlikely that he is to be identified with Lothar , colleague of the great Romanist Pillius , whom the convent of Canterbury sought to enlist in June or July 1187 in the course of their great struggle with the archbishop . |
| 3 | SCREEN goddess Liz Taylor is furious that she is to be portrayed by Raquel Welch , the star she dislikes more than any other , in a film . |
| 4 | Likewise Caroline Bynum , in Holy Feast , Holy Fast , her book about medieval women religious , pours a rigorous historian 's scorn on the idea that the extreme penitential fastings of some of these women can really be diagnosed as anorexic , or as any other sort of neurosis ( as proposed for example by Rudolph Bell in Holy Anorexia ) : not merely are the case histories inadequate , but these women 's understanding of their bodies , of their relationship to Christ , of their right to participate in his sufferings , of their sense of identity , their very selves , was formed in a social environment so different from our own that nothing is to be gained by reading off their lives in this way rather than exploring in proper detail what it was they did feel and think . |
| 5 | Valuation work will be relied on by those instructing the firm for purposes agreed in the terms of engagement and , on occasions , the firm may be aware that it is to be relied on by third parties too . |