Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Offshore winds are dangerous and are to be avoided at all costs . |
| 2 | The three cars on the Crystal Palace route were sold to Cohen 's at Thornton Heath depôt on 12 October 1935 and were to be broken up at Hampstead depôt , but they had to be held back until Crystal Palace route closed belatedly on 8 February 1936 , when presumably they were broken up in Penge depôt with the South Metropolitan cars . |
| 3 | Deeper down in the chest , where Tod does n't often burrow , the women get appreciably younger and are to be seen in things like shorts and swimwear . |
| 4 | It is argued that cultural discontinuities between homes and schools do exist , are inevitable and are to be celebrated . |
| 5 | It was demolished in 1971 but is to be re-erected opposite the Royal Victoria Hotel thus symbolically reuniting Albert the Good with is dear wife . |
| 6 | The only thing he could think of was he was a good swimmer — and a fat lot of good that was to him . |
| 7 | Built in 1540 , these lovely red-brick stables have been loaned to the Horse Rangers by grace and favour since 1964 , and could not have a better tenant than this exclusive voluntary organisation — exclusive that is to children who do not have their own horses and ponies . |
| 8 | Equally , strong unison singing to an accompaniment is always effective and is to be encouraged . |
| 9 | And , of course , if the bitter-lemon drinker is insisting on one labelled ‘ low calorie ’ , he or she is consuming hardly any calories at all and is to be congratulated . |
| 10 | The measures will take effect from January 1992 and are to be incorporated into the Convention on Marine Pollution ( MARPOL ) . |
| 11 | We all of us have needs that are practical as well as those that are to a greater or lesser degree intellectual or theoretical . |
| 12 | If the movement of the workers had been clearly revolutionary , or at least sharply segregated from the middle-class world ( as it had been before 1848 and was to be again in the era of the second International ) , the distinction would have been clear enough . |
| 13 | He was retained by the king as one of his serjeants between 1287 and 1293 and is to be found acting for him in the 1287 Gloucestershire eyre and in the northern circuit eyres of 1292–3 as well as in the Common Bench and in the Exchequer . |
| 14 | Co-operation with the LEAs was equally important and was to be sought on a basis of complementary provision rather than through competitive relationships . |
| 15 | Lakatos offers a universal criterion of rationality , then , which is conjectural and is to be tested against the history of science . |
| 16 | Three thousand tonnes of equipment from the steel works , which closed two years ago with the loss of 1,200 jobs , has been bought by the Chinese and is to be shipped out of Birkenhead docks to Shanghai . |
| 17 | Three thousand tonnes of equipment from the steel works , which closed two years ago with the loss of 1,200 jobs , have been bought by the Chinese and is to be shipped out of Birkenhead docks to Shanghai . |
| 18 | Three thousand tonnes of equipment from the steelworks , which closed with the loss of 1,200 jobs , has been bought by the Chinese and is to be shipped out of Birkenhead docks to Shanghai . |
| 19 | Only two cities in Poland have more Poles , and but two cities in Ireland have more Irish than are to be found in Chicago . |
| 20 | Zipped up the inside , and with a squared off toe , it was the last word in futuristic chic that was to be adapted and toned down for the mass market . |
| 21 | The amounts are variable and are to be debited annually . |
| 22 | However , this does not mean that the kinds of plant foods we have mentioned are bad or are to be avoided . |
| 23 | First , the growth of services in total output is a relative growth , relative that is to manufacturing . |
| 24 | These are to be inserted in the Schedule of Departmental Cost Allowances published in August 1988 and are to be adjusted by the increase in the cost allowances announced in SHHD/DGM ( 1989 ) 8 which amounts to 10.08% ; further they exclude on-costs , professional fees , equipment costs and land costs ) . |
| 25 | Thereafter the dispute grew fiercer and was to be further exacerbated by Crowe 's royalist and the company 's parliamentarian sympathies . |
| 26 | A new investment code was approved by the CCM in late March 1990 and was to be put before Parliament in April . |