Example sentences of "[be] to [be] [vb pp] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 BELVILLE : [ furious ] And is it thus in my fond conceding moments that I am to be answered and despised ?
2 This latter category may form the raw material or foundation for comparisons , but such studies are to be regarded as preparatory , rather than being fully comparative , since the questions asked of the data are at best implicit and few analytical statements are drawn from them .
3 Dances which emphasize indecent movements are to be regarded as obscene .
4 In Greek mythology , as one might expect , many examples of heroes who resemble Gilgamesh can be found , and it is likely that the Amazons are to be understood as mythological recollections of the traumatic character of the impact of the new , aggressive and masculine child-rearing regimes of the mothers of early agriculture .
5 His general thesis was that the decisions from 1884 to 1945 , which held that the child when born can not recover damages for pre-natal injury , represent the pure doctrine of the common law , while all the decisions from 1946 onwards , which all took the opposite view , are to be rejected as heretical and wrong .
6 Take care to establish whether within the terms of such a contract you are considered part of the rostered qualified workforce , or whether you are to be treated as supernumerary .
7 Statements conveying preferential relationships between terms indicate which terms are to be treated as equivalent to one another , or which concepts are to be grouped together under one index term .
8 It should be noted that the act stipulates that the time limits are to be treated as approximate only .
9 Lord MacMillan in Perry v Astor ( 1935 ) 19 TC 255 at p289 stated : The Section does not declare that the dispositions with which it deals are to be treated as non-existent in a question between the maker of the disposition and the Inland Revenue .
10 If propositions purporting to be about fictional things are to be accepted as meaningful , then it is only on condition that they can be paraphrased into propositions about non-fictional things ; for example , into propositions about persons who are thinking , alleging , claiming , etc. something fictional .
11 Monitoring of project progress and expenditure , to enable prompt corrective measures to be taken when needed , is essential if project plans are to be achieved and planned return on investment in new products realized .
12 Monitoring of project progress and expenditure , to enable prompt corrective measures to be taken when needed , is essential if project plans are to be achieved and planned return on investment in new products realized .
13 The values of stocks held [ in Germany ] are to be adjusted if necessary to values equivalent to those if the stock were held in the UK .
14 The values of stocks held [ in Germany ] are to be adjusted if necessary to values equivalent to those if the stock were held in the UK .
15 As for the meaning of dependent conditionals , it is possible and perhaps necessary to say of them , as it is commonly said of " if " statements of various kinds , that they are to be taken as primitive , in the sense of not being open to analytical definition or reductive analysis .
16 They are to be avoided if possible .
17 These seven canvases from the original ten — three are now lost — are to be offered as separate lots with estimates between £50,000–70,000 and £80,000–120,000 .
18 But as a suggestion it seems rather to name the difficulty than to solve it : which false beliefs are to be counted as relevant ?
19 Slimming pills containing high levels of guar and locust bean gums are to be banned as potential health risks , the Ministry of Agriculture has announced .
20 With the breakdown of faith in the fundamental rationality of man we no longer ask , for example , whether the drives of Freud 's Id and Super-ego are to be classed as egoistic , or see a puzzling self-contradiction in masochism .
21 Thus , for the moment , foreign policy and other issues were to be neglected while economic policy took precedence .
22 As it so happened the decision of Pope Innocent II that Mabel was illegitimate , because of her father 's first contractual marriage , was later superseded by the judgment of Pope Alexander III that the children of annulled marriages , which had been made " in the presence of the church " ( i.e. in good faith and in public ) , were to be regarded as legitimate .
23 According to this rule , all male members of the community were obliged to wait until the age of twenty to marry and sire children ; at the age of thirty , they were to be regarded as mature and initiated into the higher ranks of the sect .
24 The judge further ordered that the doctors were to be regarded as independent and to furnish copies of their reports to both Crown and defence .
25 The fact that more than four times as many Soviet warheads were to be withdrawn as American ones gave rise to particular misgivings .
26 Leaders were to be tolerated as long as they were not permanent , and as long as they were held constantly ‘ accountable ’ .
27 The interpretation for which both the applicant and the Attorney-General contended before the Court of Appeal was that the answer was affirmative ; either because the proceedings for habeas corpus were so firmly imprinted with a civil character that they were to be treated as civil , notwithstanding the essentially criminal nature of the proceedings from which they arose , or because they were of an indeterminate nature , which section 13(2) ( a ) was wide enough to embrace .
28 As a first step pensions and child benefit were to be raised and long-term supplementary benefit extended to the long-term unemployed .
29 State publications were to be instructed and private publications " stimulated " to present the activities of the authorities in a favourable light .
30 If it were to be held that judicial review for error of law lay against the visitor I fear that , as in the present case , finality would be lost not only in cases raising pure questions of law but also in cases where it would be urged in accordance with the Wednesbury principle ( Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd. v. Wednesbury Corporation [ 1948 ] 1 K.B .
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