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 | The most striking differences are to be found between Aborigines and the Australian population as a whole . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Very few wholly unqualified men were to be found at the summit of the administration . |
| 8 | A rather different reworking is to be found in ‘ The last laugh ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A similar but less marked pattern is to be found in other cases of sexual violence . |
| 11 | It was found that the substance of the matter and not only mere theory was to be regarded . |
| 12 | A somewhat similar effect is to be found near the end of the slow movement of Vaughan Williams 's Symphony in F minor . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 : |
| 15 | Real wages had to rise somewhere if less efficient plant was to be scrapped and the labour shortage contained . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Thus little transformation is to be expected from that direction . |
| 19 | Thus dental surgeons were to be even more out of pocket . |
| 20 | Anyway , on with my story , for soon other pressures were to be brought to bear . |
| 21 | The most likely answer is to be found in the habitats they frequent . |
| 22 | The most obvious possibility is to be able to call up a video window on the screen which can deliver a helpline operator 's face and words and enable you to resolve your problem . |
| 23 | Keeping the ‘ common people ’ of Romania down by always increasing the demands put upon them and diminishing their rewards was good policy as well as economically necessary if his ever-more ambitious plans were to be accomplished . |
| 24 | A total of 1,500 academics teaching subjects no longer in demand were offered generous compensation to retire early , while 1,000 new staff in more popular subjects were to be appointed . |
| 25 | If more adequate services are to be made available for the expected increase in the numbers needing them , those of working age will have to pay more in central or local taxes . |
| 26 | Instead , productivity improvements and more cooperative attitudes were to be attained by other devices such as wage incentive schemes ( Lewchuk , 1983 ) . |
| 27 | More philosophical criticism is to be found along Davidsonian lines . |
| 28 | But perhaps a more likely interpretation is to be found in the aspect of the hobby known as ‘ copping ’ , the keeping of lists of trains seen . |
| 29 | More random checks are to be held over the next few weeks . |
| 30 | And a much more substantial prospect is to be found in continental Europe , where the German worker is assiduously pricing himself out of the market — and far from the Ossies pricing themselves into jobs lost by the Wessies , the former East Germans are insisting on even more uneconomic wages in relation to their skills and capabilities . |