Example sentences of "[conj] [be] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of importance at this stage is whether the technique merits wider and detailed comparative trials or is to good that such trials are not justified on ethical considerations or is so good that patient pressure is such that carefully controlled trials can not be mounted ( phase III ) . |
| 2 | The taxpayers were assessed to Schedule E income tax for the years from 1983–84 to 1985–86 on the basis that under the concessionary scheme they had received benefits that were to treated as ‘ emoluments ’ of their employment under section 61 of the Act of 1976 , the cash equivalent of such benefit being chargeable to income tax in accordance with the provisions of section 63 of the Act . |
| 3 | He was , in so far as he underestimated the implications of one major disanalogy : he had no law that was to natural selection as the Newtonian inverse square law ( with proportionality to mass products ) was to gravitational attraction . |
| 4 | ( Hewitt 1989 : 138 ) But he goes on to say : while such Creole influences may have been more evident and highly focused ( Le Page 1975 ) in the speech of black youngsters , they were by no means restricted to black speakers but were to varying degrees evident also in the speech of white and ethnic minority youth other than Afro-Caribbean from the same localities . |
| 5 | Some of the barbarian federates are known to have understood their loyalty as being to Valentinian ; his death , therefore , absolved them from any treaty with the Empire . |