Example sentences of "[adj] is to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Not because we adhere to some outdated idea that to be commercial is to be tainted and somehow of no interest , but we felt we were redressing an imbalance . |
| 3 | One way of being dignified is to be above it all , to be silent when provoked . |
| 4 | To be old is to be , of necessity , unhealthy . |
| 5 | To be old is to be unhealthy . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | To be old is to be wrinkled and crabbit and heading for Parkinson 's or Alzheimer 's disease . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The more intensive is to be the distribution , the larger will be the salesforce . |
| 13 | The only authentic way to be good is to be good ‘ for nothing ’ : that was to become the ringing insistence of her finest treatise , The Sovereignty of Good ( 1970 ) . |
| 14 | A local public good is to be provided in each locality and the cost is to be shared equally by residents . |
| 15 | AN international treaty which commits three very different communities to work together for the common good is to be signed in Middlesbrough next week . |
| 16 | Both behaviourism and ‘ humanistic ’ views would have us believe that to be affective is to be effective in setting up conditions for learning . |
| 17 | Many observers have argued that some form of planning is therefore essential if the optimum outcome for all concerned is to be achieved , but carefully administered recreational facilities in the countryside will not be sufficient on their own . |
| 18 | Qudis Networks Ltd is to be the primary distributor for the system in the UK and the list price is £700 for each personal computer . |
| 19 | What is important is to be aware of the normal condition of your fish to as to detect any problem immediately , and to check , and if necessary remedy water quality as soon as any trouble is spotted . |
| 20 | A vast and ordinarily unnoticed area of the history of the arts is the development of systems of social signals that what is now to be made available is to be regarded as art . |
| 21 | As such , they need constant updating — especially if the perceived trend towards reduced pub-going is to be reversed . |
| 22 | Ingredient Y would have to be purchased if Abrasive is to be manufactured ; thus the cost of manufacturing Abrasive is an incremental cost of £7,000 . |
| 23 | The first essential is to be light on your feet , because your unweighting keeps the skis floating . |
| 24 | These include the introduction of a Northern Ireland curriculum for all children of compulsory school age in grant-aided schools , and a pattern of assessment criteria and attainment testing much as in England and Wales ( though the first key stage is to end at the age of 8 , not 7 , and Irish is to be a foundation subject in Irish-speaking schools ) . |
| 25 | York 's dial-a-bus service for the elderly and disabled is to be extended to weekends and evenings for a trial three-month period from the end of March . |
| 26 | Here the difficulty I found in talking about psychoanalytic criticism is compounded , not because I am an unbeliever , but because anything that the middle-aged male commentator says about feminism is liable to be wrong : to be approving may be condemned as patronizing , and to be critical is to be sexist . |
| 27 | THE complex system of taxing the self-employed is to be simplified — but not until 1996/97 at the earliest . |
| 28 | Hardy 's most eloquent defence of Jude the Obscure is to be found in a series of letters to his friend Edmund Gosse , who had reviewed the novel in St. James 's Gazette on 8 May 1895 . |
| 29 | To be slipshod is to be hounded , which is the last thing he wants . |
| 30 | The fair is to be kept ‘ … upon the fourth day of July , being St Martin 's Day , and so to continue for the space of seven days … ’ , but the date changed to the 15th July when the Gregorian Calendar was adopted . |