Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun sg] [be] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This sort of interdependence of interests is a feature of the relations between industrialised countries ; having built a strong overseas market position , a country will be forced to take more account of external pressures if that strong position is to be maintained . |
| 2 | However , if that racing game were to be as poor as the film ( it is ) with graphics that look positively antiquated ( they do ) , you 'd expect the rating to be about 34% , would n't you ? |
| 3 | The second result of broad interest is that cultural diversity is to be expected even if the underlying cognitive development is rigidly programmed . |
| 4 | This hedonistic pragmatism is to be seen moulded for ever in the rolls of fat around the necks of the bronze and terracottaheads from Ife . |
| 5 | According to a decree of July 12 signed by Adil Carcani , Chairman of the Council of Ministers , some free enterprise was to be permitted in the services and handicrafts sector . |
| 6 | But the lure of this historical explanation is to be resisted . |
| 7 | This definitive version was to be used in all churches throughout the realm . |
| 8 | This comprehensive settlement was to be buttressed by reforms in those parts of European Turkey not otherwise dealt with . |
| 9 | This favourable trend was to be attributed on the one hand to efforts at ‘ re-industrialization ’ , for instance of steel closure areas in the Northern Region and Wales , and on the other to a partial reversion to the pattern of 1971–78 , when labour shortage in Greater London created some of the worst trends in manufacturing employment . |
| 10 | But perhaps the most remarkable adaptation of this versatile word was to be found in Robert Buchanan 's fierce attack on Rudyard Kipling 's poetry , which he denounced in 1899 as ‘ The Voice of the Hooligan ’ . |
| 11 | They were described as mere preparations for an Iranian final offensive , though this much-heralded event was to be a long time coming . |
| 12 | President Gorbachev wanted to double Soviet nuclear-generated electricity within 5 years — 50 per cent of this rapid growth was to be achieved by the construction of the Chernobyl-type graphite-moderated reactors RBMK-1000 and RBMK-1500 . |
| 13 | Convenient summaries of this previous work are to be found in Lo ( 1986 ) and Griffiths ( 1988 ) . |
| 14 | This unifying character is to be found in the method of the common law . |
| 15 | This great expansion is to be explained by newly available resources — available in Lorraine because of the Thomas process , in Scandinavia because of railway-building — a fall in costs thanks to a better transport network , the development of integrated plants and improvements in fuel technology . |
| 16 | This four-year project is to be jointly co-ordinated by the School of Oriental and African Studies , University of London , and the University of Bordeaux ( co-directors , Dr D B Cruise O'Brien and Dr C Coulon ) with a multi-disciplinary team of nine scholars : four British and five French . |
| 17 | To this end some consultative procedure is to be recommended . |
| 18 | This all-enfolding system was to be thoroughly metaphysical and consistently rational . |
| 19 | Miss Blagden duly took the wretched gun and it was she who was kind enough to write on delivering it : — I found your husband very well , Wilson , and as expected by you much agitated over the rumours that another concerted effort is to be made to free and unite his country which subject I may say engages the minds and hearts of his employers hardly less . |
| 20 | All that Ormrod J. is in fact saying is that there has to be a woman in a marriage , because someone has to perform the essential role of a woman in the marriage , and this essential role is to be a woman , biologically so determined . |
| 21 | The most interesting development pointing in this general direction is to be found in the field of statutory as opposed to common law review . |
| 22 | Does this mean that only this small area is to be subject to the prohibition ? |
| 23 | However , they are now hitting physical limits to increasing computer performance and if this impressive progress is to be continued new approaches to speeding up computer performance will need to be developed . |
| 24 | Clearly , the spirit of the laws of this Irish state was to be a religious one and therefore one which would not take account of the then one thousand , and now ten thousand or more of the population in the Southern state who professed no religion . |
| 25 | Amory , a likeable and popular man , had been one of the few Conservative MP 's to be active in the campaign to end capital punishment in the late 1940s . |
| 26 | In addition , too much lead spoils the finish of mercury- or fire-gilding ( see page 90 ) , so leaded alloys were avoided if this particular decoration was to be applied . |
| 27 | For the time being , this single track was to be used as a terminus for the service . |
| 28 | But if this new development were to be simply an aid to better assignments and projects then it would not be remarkable , because library instruction which is project-related and project-inspired , is not unusual , though it is less common than the separate library lesson . |
| 29 | The slope in this new garden is to be terraced around a circular lawn with steps leading up to the higher level . |
| 30 | The existence of this silent period is to be expected in virtually all natural acquisition settings , but in a formal classroom setting the individual may not be allowed to have a silent period . |