Example sentences of "[adv] this [be] to " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps this is to be expected , as Edis was already skilled as a studio photographer . |
2 | Yeah , I just er , like to , just to welcome the ongoing commitment to the Treasurers Department , to keep down the er , charges to the public service units through C E C. Obviously this is to the benefit , and gives them the , a greater chance of succeeding out there , in what is a difficult market place . |
3 | At that time the navigator and bombardier starting going on missions because evidently they were short so by the time the Gdynia mission came around the bombardier and the , and the er navigator had missions under their belt so this was to be my first mission . |
4 | Soon this was to be entered and then only Tibet and Ethiopia would remain for a time unresponsive to European politics , ideas and technology . |
5 | Now this was to be the country in which I should eat and sleep , read books and write letters for the rest of the war . |
6 | the circumstances I wonder how well this is to the current debate as opposed to amendments which I suspect will be moved later on . |
7 | But as we shall see , even this is to be questioned . |
8 | Surely this was to be the winning throw , but , oh disaster , gloom and stress , surely it was n't . |
9 | Attention focused chiefly on strengthening the " European pillar " of the military alliance , although members failed to agree on how precisely this was to be achieved . |
10 | Sometimes this was to be done with the aid of a department or institution studentship or scholarship . |
11 | If ‘ science ’ ( the relativist might well be inclined to use quotation marks ) is highly regarded in our society , then this is to be understood by analysing our society , and not simply by analysing the nature of science . |
12 | If the palace was ‘ His ’ pet project , then this was to be the home of ‘ Her ’ hobby . |
13 | How this is to be done , and what ye all have to do , I will leave in the hands of the Bishop Don Hieronymo , and Alvar Fañez , and Pero Bermudez . |
14 | The literature of the last few years is thronged with papers proposing that these must be taken into account — but with few realistic proposals on how this is to be achieved . |
15 | But Althusser 's own account does not make it clear how this is to be done . |
16 | If the claim that they all legitimate the existing order is to be more than a dogma it must be refined , and Althusser 's work offers no suggestion as to how this is to be done . |
17 | For in his analyses of the classes of capitalism he resorts to purposive terminology , without giving any hint of how this is to be understood except in an everyday , voluntarist manner . |
18 | He uses an example to explain how this is to be done . |
19 | I ask you , gentlemen , to consider how this is to be accomplished . ’ |
20 | But it is a relatively complex judgement , and , like entailment , will probably prove to be derivable from more elementary intuitions ( e.g. from patterns of normality and abnormality ) , although it is not at present clear how this is to be done . |
21 | The assistant must thus be provided with detailed instructions on how this is to be achieved . |
22 | Details indicating how this is to be made must now be entered into the engineering file . |
23 | The treaty does not define how this is to be interpreted geographically . |
24 | It is investment like any other business investment , and it should be clear what it is intended to achieve , and how this is to be measured . |
25 | He failed always to understand that there was a large area of common ground in British public opinion on India which consisted in the belief that , with a few adjustments , British rule could be made , and remain , acceptable to Indians for ever , and that differences of opinion were to a considerable extent about how this was to be done . |
26 | The political pressures reinforcing this attitude were powerful , and Shinwell , with his eye on the working class cost of living , told the Central Authority at its first meeting that they should not charge prices higher than costs ( without , however , specifying how this was to be interpreted ) . |
27 | There was little elaboration as to how this was to be achieved , save occasional guidance notes ; otherwise there was reliance on the all-embracing , but rather vague idea of protecting ‘ amenity ’ ( Punter , 1987 ) . |
28 | He makes it clear in the dedication of the latter that voices and instruments were to be used now together , now separately ( ‘ per vocum et instrumentorum melodiam , tam conjuncte quam divisim ’ ) but not at all clear how this was to be done . |
29 | There was a particular dish , in those days something of a delicacy , which needed cutting into sections before serving , and the question was how this was to be done . |
30 | Although he did not specify how this was to be achieved , he promised not to increase the unpopular goods and services consumption tax ( GST ) . |