Example sentences of "[adj] [be] to be " in BNC.
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1 | For the person with these projects the forwarding of them has an importance to which utilitarianism can not do justice , for it must regard them as simply among the many preferences of which as many as possible are to be satisfied . |
2 | Various formulations of in exactly what respect the statements should be clear are to be found in the Speech . |
3 | all women between 20 and 64 years old are to be invited for screening ( by March 1993 ) ; |
4 | all women between 50 and 64 years old are to be invited for screening by breast X-ray ( mammography ) by March 1993 . |
5 | The French were to be excluded from offices in Scotland — and Scottish noblemen must reject French pensions . |
6 | In comprehensive schools , all the British were to be treated the same , despite the obvious differences between us of sex , class , culture , ability , religion , race , and so on . |
7 | And the only way of making sure they do n't unless it 's completely clear is to be in a a safe positive lane on your way through the roundabout . |
8 | Not because we adhere to some outdated idea that to be commercial is to be tainted and somehow of no interest , but we felt we were redressing an imbalance . |
9 | One way of being dignified is to be above it all , to be silent when provoked . |
10 | To be old is to be , of necessity , unhealthy . |
11 | To be old is to be unhealthy . |
12 | Estes and Binney ( 1988 , p. 69 ) describe the image of older people in America as ‘ to be old is to be frail , sick , dependent and vulnerable ’ . |
13 | To be old is to be wrinkled and crabbit and heading for Parkinson 's or Alzheimer 's disease . |
14 | Talcott Parsons has proposed the very influential theory that of all other available institutions it is the classroom that above all converts an incomplete person into a member of the kind of society Parsons takes for granted as natural , that is , a kind of society where to be social is to be interested in achievement . |
15 | Where the phrenologists went wrong was to be too arrogant about their pronouncements ; they were also wrong to suppose that the human skull gives us much information about the brain it was designed to protect . |
16 | To be too direct was to be unfeminine . |
17 | Consequently notations such as the following are to be found : |
18 | If we turn to trusts we find Valens stating that if maintenance has been left by trust to freedmen without a sum being stated , then first of all the amounts usually paid by the deceased are to be taken into account , then his bequests to those of the same class , and failing these his assets and intimacy with the beneficiaries are to be considered . |
19 | The name of ABC and its subsidiary ABC ( Europe ) Limited are to be changed within 3 years of completion to a name which excludes reference to the ABC family . |
20 | But I would place a somewhat different emphasis , and suggest that in the Chewong case fear is a positive emotion and encouraged in children because to be fearful is to be human , while the arousal of other inner states is negatively valued and discouraged — as manifest in the various rules that forbid them ( see Howell 1981 ) . |
21 | When the winding is to be excited both transistors ( are switched on , so the voltage applied to the phase winding is equal to the sun , of the two supply voltages ( VL + VH ) , the diode D2 being reverse-biased by VH.There is no series resistance to limit the current , which therefore starts to rise towards a value which is many times the rated winding current . |
22 | Whether the act was dangerous was to be judged by what the reasonable person would have appreciated . |
23 | Right-wing social democrats drew the conclusion that material advances could be won indefinitely and therefore nothing extra was to be gained by open class struggle . |
24 | This was a peculiar thing to do , because in 1963 in the House of Lords the Lord Chancellor had ruled that a free pardon wiped out a conviction and all its consequences , and the accused was to be regarded as having been acquitted . |
25 | Basic unemployment benefits were reduced , while other supplementary benefits for unemployed people , for single parents and for the sick were to be subjected to means testing . |
26 | Turning from aromatherapy for a moment , one good example of the natural clearly winning over the synthetic is to be found in the case of insulin . |
27 | The more intensive is to be the distribution , the larger will be the salesforce . |
28 | Nothing human was to be seen there — no man to whom I might call . |
29 | The soprano in B flat and the bass in E flat are to be found in very large wind orchestras , but the normal constitution of the saxophone section is two altos , a tenor , and a baritone . |
30 | The young and the elderly are to be catered for in a small land reclamation scheme in New Skelton . |