Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [am/are] to be [vb pp] " 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 | Do I take it that I 'm to be redeemed from that particular fate ? |
| 3 | ‘ I will take you back to the cage … and in the morning I will give the order that you are to be called by any name you want . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't pretend that you are to be cured , my lady , ’ smiled the doctor , from under the Physical bob-wig that marked his profession . |
| 5 | Three years after publisher Robert Maxwell sacked twenty one journalists from the Pergamon Press company , it 's been announced tonight that they 're to be paid thousands of pounds in compensation.The deal brings to an end one of the longest runing disputes in British trade union history . |
| 6 | Their meaning is such that they are to be distinguished from various other " if " statements , that they have certain logical properties , and that they are entailed by independent nomic conditionals together with further premisses in a way derived from the antecedents of the latter conditionals . |
| 7 | Round up all the children , and tell them that they are to be treated to sweets to celebrate the day . |
| 8 | If so , estimate how long this will take , call the candidates for interview that much earlier than you would otherwise have done , and let them know in the letter that they are to be given a tour first . |
| 9 | While the expert clause itself may lay down that the parties are to be responsible for the fees and expenses of the expert in equal shares , which is quite common , or that they are to be met by some other party ( see 8.12 ) , the clause itself may not be sufficient to establish the expert 's entitlement unless its terms are clearly incorporated into the expert 's contract to conduct the reference . |
| 10 | When the arrears are payable , the presumption is that they are to be paid provided there are surplus assets available , whether or not these represent accumulated profits which might have been distributed by way of dividend , but that they are payable only to the date of the commencement of the winding up . |
| 11 | Processions commonly or customarily held , and funeral processions are exempt from the notice requirement , presumably because the police will already be fully aware that they are to be held , and do not therefore fall within the ‘ triggering ’ rationale of the requirement . |
| 12 | It was revealed later that they are to be held outside Liverpool at one of Britain 's four special secure units for child offenders . |
| 13 | 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 . |