Example sentences of "[conj] he [be] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Give a child a piece of paper to hold and say that he is to be sure not to let anyone interfere with it . |
| 2 | He has in writing that he is to be used — only — as an offensive midfielder both in games and — in training — . |
| 3 | As regards contracts of employment , it is provided that he is to be liable on any contract of employment adopted by him but nothing he does or omits to do in the first 14 days of his appointment is to be taken as adoption of the contract . |
| 4 | The deep-seated feeling that man 's nature is essentially structured to survive nomadically and that he needs to be on the move in some way if he is to be satisfied , is complemented by the mystics ' witness that true human fulfilment is the concomitant of what is experienced as a spiritual journey to a goal beyond time that is occasionally anticipated and known in time , the element within which our curiously mixed physical and spiritual natures cohere and mature . |
| 5 | He realised that if he was to be successful he would have to take them at speed . |
| 6 | He knew that if he was to be sure of winning he had to hole it . |
| 7 | The member of parliament did not give up his efforts to find a place for the young officer , but the close connection between parliamentary politics and placement was made abundantly clear by Scott 's insistence to his correspondent that the young man 's father , a Dundee councillor , would first have to make clear ‘ whether he is to be friendly ’ to the politician . |