Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] [be] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most professional approach was to be polite but say nothing . |
| 2 | The most telling accounts were to be seen in the local press whose journalists had gone along on routine reporting assignments and tried to come to terms with the decidedly un-pop star look of the performers on stage . |
| 3 | As in a good many other towns , the £3 — £9 category was smaller than in the local villages , but the most telling contrast is to be seen at the foot of the scale . |
| 4 | It is in the American continent , however , that the most complete evidence is to be found . |
| 5 | It is suggested that if the timetable is important ( as for example , a development timetable in a building lease ) the draftsman should provide expressly that time is to be of the essence . |
| 6 | The most striking differences are to be found between Aborigines and the Australian population as a whole . |
| 7 | Perhaps the most striking provision is to be found in the Countryside ( Scotland ) Act 1967 and the Countryside Act 1968 which requires every minister government department and public body to have regard to the desirability of conserving the natural beauty and amenity of the countryside in all their functions relating to land . |
| 8 | Very few wholly unqualified men were to be found at the summit of the administration . |
| 9 | A rather different reworking is to be found in ‘ The last laugh ’ . |
| 10 | Henceforward British subjects were to be the sum total of the citizens of those territories — some independent and some not independent as yet — which had formerly been within the allegiance as dominions of the Crown . |
| 11 | How widely this reservation is to be applied in practice has sooner or later to be defined by the Court of Justice . |
| 12 | Now a larger field is required in the instruction to specify , not only that indexing is to be performed , but also which index register is to be used . |
| 13 | With this sort of evidence in mind , we were invited to answer the question , ‘ Why is it when women have had the vote for 50 years , so few women are to be found in politically powerful positions ? ’ |
| 14 | A similar but less marked pattern is to be found in other cases of sexual violence . |
| 15 | Col. Dabson wanted to know why so much money was to be spent on open spaces such as Radford Park and the recreation ground . |
| 16 | It was found that the substance of the matter and not only mere theory was to be regarded . |
| 17 | A somewhat similar effect is to be found near the end of the slow movement of Vaughan Williams 's Symphony in F minor . |
| 18 | Even more obvious is the influence of law and order ideology on the 1991 Criminal Justice Act 's strategy of ‘ punishment in the community ’ , which we have termed ‘ punitive bifurcation ’ since it insists that the non-custodial measures whose use is to be encouraged for less serious offenders are to be punitive rather than rehabilitative in intent and nature . |
| 19 | To exemplify these let us consider just three herds of cattle , A , B and C , and assume for simplicity that only one herd is to be sampled . |
| 20 | In the preliminaries only one team was to be eliminated . |
| 21 | One of the classic formulations of the feelings of settled but militarily powerful people on the quiet side of a frontier about their neighbours on the less settled side is to be found in a nursery rhyme : |
| 22 | Real wages had to rise somewhere if less efficient plant was to be scrapped and the labour shortage contained . |
| 23 | This apparently insignificant detail was to be of fateful importance for all subsequent human cultural and psychological evolution because it provided the first , albeit rather minimal , check on the egoism and mutual antagonism of males . |
| 24 | Particular outstanding work is dealing with changes to the Community Charge Register which have to be reflected in the Council Tax liabilities , approximately 30,000 changes were to be processed in this area . |
| 25 | In 1850 his eldest son David became a partner and soon six brothers were to be involved in the firm in various capacities . |
| 26 | Thus pornographic representations are to be condemned because they reinforce the desires to treat people , and it is usually women , i n the way I have been arguing they are treated . |
| 27 | Thus little transformation is to be expected from that direction . |
| 28 | Thus dental surgeons were to be even more out of pocket . |
| 29 | Anyway , on with my story , for soon other pressures were to be brought to bear . |
| 30 | The most likely answer is to be found in the habitats they frequent . |