Example sentences of "[coord] [subord] [adj] be to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not know who was to be detained or whether any were to be released . |
| 2 | Embarrassment , it seems clear , is a major concern of the British psyche , and the dreams the British dream , if opinion-polls are to be believed , tend to be about social embarrassment , with amorous fantasy playing only a disappointingly minor role ; and if that is to be taken in evidence , then it may be said to represent a more powerful obsession than sex . |
| 3 | If the channel tunnel is ever to be a genuine national undertaking that brings benefit to all parts of the United Kingdom , and if that is to be achieved within our lifetime , it is important that the Bill goes ahead . |
| 4 | Two lives are bound together by a cord , and if this were to be broken prematurely , one would die . |
| 5 | And if this were to be their last meeting , then should they perhaps not waste it all in talk ? |
| 6 | We actively desired an ever closer union of the European peoples , but it was not laid down how and when this was to be achieved . |
| 7 | But if this is to be called a rational method , it is so , from Stevenson 's point of view , mainly because it consists in letting one 's attitudes be moulded by rational factual beliefs . |
| 8 | I accept the argument which er Noble Viscount put so clearly that there may be a case for bringing in some outside people , but if this is to be done , it seems to me that the police authority itself is the authority best able to judge what particular gaps need to be filled and the one of the amendments to which I am speaking erm does contemplate giving power to the authority to co-opt members with experience which might not other ways be available , for example from among the ethnic minorities . |
| 9 | But if this was to be achieved then public spending — as a proportion of national wealth — had to come down . |
| 10 | Even more than in the 1930s , the TUC were imprisoned within constraints imposed on it by a capitalist wage-structure : the TUC argued strongly for adequate pensions ( denying , for example , that an old person needed less to eat ) ; but if this was to be implemented without encouraging further wage-cuts to elderly workers , then it appeared to them inevitable that a retirement condition must be introduced . |
| 11 | The director had a lot of respect for Douglas as an actor but since this was to be Silverstein 's first theatrical film he did n't want to have to find himself dealing with ‘ A consummate ego ’ , as he put it , and then added , ‘ no , huge ego ’ . |