Example sentences of "[conj] it [be] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , the gift must be made upon the condition that it is to be absolute and perfected only on the donor 's death , being revocable until that event occurs and ineffective if it does not . |
| 2 | This may be done by including in the grant of the option a proviso that it is to be void if it is not registered as an estate contract within , say , three months from the date of the lease . |
| 3 | that intrigued me because it did n't seem to me that it was to be eligible |
| 4 | Over a five-year period Kiselev transformed the administration of the lands between the Pruth and the Danube to such an extent that it was to be hard , thereafter , for the sultan or outsiders to prevent the eventual emergence of an independent Romania . |
| 5 | You know , it 's much , it 's much easier to be nasty about something than it is to be nice about something . |
| 6 | ‘ So it 's to be Vortai Kha-Khan , is it ? |
| 7 | How can the Secretary of State conceivably claim that Her Majesty 's inspectorate is to be strengthened when its numbers are to be cut by two thirds and it is to be subject to clear and specific direction from the Secretary of State ? |
| 8 | This relationship , if it is to be helpful , must be informed , on our part , by an appropriate purpose , knowledge , self-awareness and clear , consistent boundaries . |
| 9 | Any attempt to inject market disciplines must take account of this essential feature of social care ( social work ) if it is to be constructive rather than destructive . |
| 10 | The culmination of its activity is at the kill , whereas a retriever needs to wait and relate closely to its owner , if it is to be successful at its task . |
| 11 | If it is to be successful in this objective it needs to articulate much more clearly the rival communitarian philosophy which one senses underpins its practical proposals . |
| 12 | People also need to like advertising if it is to be successful and , again , the results show that people did find the ads funny and enjoyed watching them . |
| 13 | But we are convinced that the housegroup group , if it is to be powerful in building people up for the fight , is the place for this . |
| 14 | To survive , a butterfly must get away from it — at least 25cm away if it is to be certain of living until morning . |
| 15 | Study , if it is to be effective , must be active and critical and not passive . |
| 16 | The exemption is a recognition of the desirability of spontaneity in certain circumstances ; where there are sudden events such as the ‘ release of pollutants , a traffic accident , a shipment of nuclear waste or a visit by a political leader , ’ the response to such events must be immediate if it is to be effective , and the giving of notice is in such circumstances not reasonably practicable . |
| 17 | All I can say to you is that if it is to be good news , it would give me more pleasure than I can say ; and if it is to be bad — I have gone through it , and Anne , and many others , and one does survive and go on , though you think you never will … |
| 18 | Negotiation should be a planned activity if it is to be efficient . |
| 19 | If it is to be profitable on the Hong Kong to Macau route , a craft has to operate in darkness as well as during the day . |
| 20 | If , as I have argued , thought and consciousness irreducibly escape the net of physicalist interpretation , and if , as I have suggested , the external world must possess the mind-like property of generality if it is to be conceivable , then we can see that Socrates ' assertion in the Phaedo , that the world must be explained by reference to mind , was essentially correct . |
| 21 | This is partly because its product , type , must be familiar if it is to be legible . |
| 22 | There must also be at least one director if the company is private , or two if it is to be public . |
| 23 | If a tax is to be fair , if it is to have the support of the people and if it is to be collectable , it must be based on the fundamental principle of ability to pay . |
| 24 | However , the evidence also suggests that information spillovers are more important in research than in development , and that a firm has to do quite a lot of its own R&D , if it is to be able to absorb information spillovers effectively . |
| 25 | A Lockean ‘ idea ’ is not just what a word stands for if it is to be meaningful . |
| 26 | All I can say to you is that if it is to be good news , it would give me more pleasure than I can say ; and if it is to be bad — I have gone through it , and Anne , and many others , and one does survive and go on , though you think you never will … |
| 27 | If it 's to be helpful if if Mr is saying on behalf of the Parish Council that by showing it in this way on the key diagram , he feels is prejudicing or the Parish Council 's position is prejudiced at some future date , then it 's to be helpful to that that the County Council is saying it is prepared to show it simply as a an arrow and similarly for consistency it would seem to make sense to show the western in the same fashion . |
| 28 | ‘ If it 's to be unlawful restraint , I need you . |
| 29 | They 'd need to keep up this standard if it 's to be permanent |
| 30 | that I have downstairs , because it 's , if it was to be computerized , it would be a massive great bloody great volume |