Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [be] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Equally with a sensation , saying ‘ by ‘ pain ’ I mean that ’ will only achieve the desired effect if we have some means of separating characteristics which are to be relevant from those which are not .
2 This was the first of many long sieges which were to be characteristic of the war .
3 What redress is there to be for independent bankers who are to be immune from dismissal and are to have , as Pöhl so quaintly put it , ‘ adequate financial arrangements during and after their term in office ’ ?
4 3 Make sure that personnel who are to be present from sections other than the PR department are fully briefed on their role and on what can and can not be said .
5 Draft rules regarding the persons who are to be entitled to use the canteen must be submitted to the licensing board along with the application : subs .
6 Section I of this Act clearly sets out how education is to be administered and identifies the bodies which are to be responsible for the implementation of educational policies .
7 Her formal education , after a brief period in Islington , was in a school in Heidelberg where , as well as developing her musical talents , she acquired a facility in languages which was to be useful in her later career .
8 The Manchurian Academy trained others who were to be prominent after 1945 .
9 Each , it is true , has her own perspective : for France , it is about cocking a snook at the Americans , for Germany about playing the leading role in a superstate , for Italy about compensating for her chronic democratic weaknesses ; for others it is to be able to benefit from German largesse .
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