Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun] [pers pn] [be] to [be] " in BNC.

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1 I believe that the spirit chooses which lessons it is to be faced with during the course of a particular lifetime .
2 The girl was to be guarded until she delivered , at which time she was to be stoned to death .
3 For Locke , then , personal identity consists in an identity of consciousness , and not in the identity of some substance whose essence it is to be conscious .
4 Then there were officers with particular functions , one whose job it was to be at the scene of the crime before the body was touched or moved .
5 Those whose calling it is to be God 's agents of reconciliation are vulnerable to the ordinary wear and tear of any who seek to serve among the wayward and weak , the blocked and blighted among beautiful people unable to realise their potential .
6 They delivered their derogatory cards in turn to NatWest , Midlands , Lloyds and Barclays , and then let their feelings known with specially adapted carols such as : ‘ Jingle tills , jingle tills , jingle all the way/Oh what fun it is to be a High Street bank these days , /Pulling money out , putting receivers in/ Winding business up , with an evil grin . ’
7 In whatever sense it is to be recognized as an objective fact that I am now responding in awareness of more factors than before , my reaction will likewise be objectively better than before .
8 The first question is in what order they are to be made .
9 These might include terms defining your headquarters , indicating where travel involved in your job begins and ends , where and in what currency you are to be paid and whether or not you are obliged to pay UK National Insurance contributions .
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