Example sentences of "be [verb] [coord] [noun] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where there is a task to be completed and deadlines to be met an autocratic approach may be appropriate . |
| 2 | Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be condemned , they therefore do as they like . |
| 3 | The courts can order presses to be stopped for the same reasons as they can order assets to be frozen or property to be returned . |
| 4 | If patients wish to be treated ‘ as human beings ’ and not simply as bodies to be mended or diseases to be cured , then they can not object to the social nature of their humanity being scrutinised and its relevance to therapy assessed . |
| 5 | As it got dark there was a nightmare of organisation and shouting ; there were meals to be cooked for the Sergeants , marquee and tents to be erected in a rainstorm , personal kit to be unpacked and weapons to be put into a makeshift armoury . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , the country still needs further help ; roads need to be built and fields to be irrigated . |
| 7 | The wealth generated by our overseas possessions was channelled back to Britain and allowed fortunes to be made and investments to be made in many new industries , including cotton , fabrics , and diverse engineering products . |
| 8 | If you are really good there is nowhere to go but up to where there is money to be made and awards to be won . |
| 9 | Did you know that your EC-approved pads must be ‘ as light as possible without prejudicing design strength and efficiency ’ ( sub-section 1.3.2 ) , or that your box ‘ must be so designed and manufactured as to facilitate correct positioning on the user and to remain in place for the foreseeable period of use , bearing in mind ambient factors , movements to be made and postures to be adopted . |
| 10 | If there were games to be played or work to be done or stories to be read it was always to Rachel that she would turn ; Rachel who went out and came in when she said she would and said ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ , not from whim or temper , but with authority . |
| 11 | 4 For each of the things to be done and problems to be solved , work out the best approach . |
| 12 | By early November however , as the Dublin lock-out attacks against leaders of the trade unions and the Labour Party who seemed to be obstructing his plans for a general strike , not only in Dublin , but throughout Great Britain , vilifying them as " serpents whom I shall allow to raise their foul heads and spit out their poison no longer " and as having " neither soul to be saved nor body to be kicked " Almost overnight , support for Larkin turned into denunciation of his reckless methods and of his policy of attempting to bleed British unions of funds in support of sympathy strikes which seemed destined either to fail or to lead to unwanted revolution . |
| 13 | Everything is growing apace , especially the weeds ; there are plants to be watered and crops to be gathered . |
| 14 | Cows to be milked twice a day , every day , water to be carried to all the cattle , fodder to drag to the high pastures , hay to be cut if the weather was benevolent , dry stone walls to be repaired after the ravages of winter , cows to be calved and ewes to be lambed ( usually in the middle of the night ) , horses to harness , drains to be dug … the list is endless . |
| 15 | Details of the parties , the proceedings , the evidence to be obtained , or other judicial act to be performed and questions to be put must be included . |
| 16 | Hence , Cnut 's inheritance was international and many-faceted : there were numerous opportunities to be taken , pitfalls to be avoided and problems to be overcome , both at home and abroad , before his dominion and influence extended over much of the northern world , and merited the title by which his fellow Scandinavians know him today : Knut den store — Cnut the Great . |
| 17 | As Lord Wilberforce said , the GLC might direct fares to be raised or services to be adjusted ; or might make a grant to the LTE . |
| 18 | At the end of the day , there are experiences to be shared , new friends to be introduced and tans to be compared over a convivial drink . |
| 19 | ‘ There may be questions to be asked and problems to be solved concerning the implementation of this programme . |
| 20 | Apart from arranging all the necessary meetings , there is plenty of paper work concerning the actors " pay and repeat fees , details of music and musicians to be passed to the Performing Rights Society , a post-production script ( what really happened ) to be compiled or film to be transferred to tape , which is the way all commercials are now transmitted . |
| 21 | There were just too many unanswered questions now , too many battles to be fought and riddles to be solved . |
| 22 | Under the terms of this sub-clause the authorisation does not extend to decisions to be taken or certificates to be issued under Clauses 6 , 25 , 31 ( 1 ) , 31 ( 4 ) , 34 and 35 . |
| 23 | They provide , in particular , for accounts to be taken and inquiries to be made . |
| 24 | The low-paid worker in the ‘ poverty trap ’ may gain nothing , or even lose , from an increase in earnings , when these cause benefits to be lost and tax to be paid . |
| 25 | These two tendencies — looking for natural difference and failing to see cultural difference — reinforce one another , causing men to be studied and women to be stereotyped . |
| 26 | Disputes , both before and after 1381 , were concerned with questions of rents to be paid and services to be performed , or with whether or not individuals were free men or villeins . |