Example sentences of "[pers pn] is to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Likewise in the case of Lewis 's Eve : if she is ransomed by Ransom 's struggle with the Un-Man in the underworld , a sort of Harrowing of Hell sequence , how can she be said to have resisted the temptation on her own ; and if she has not really resisted through her own strength — if she is to be rewarded with immortality and felicity for something she has not done herself — where is the justice in the punishment , on another planet , of Eve and her descendants , for something which again was not wholly her responsibility ? |
| 2 | Besides , she is to be got downstairs , and how is that to be managed ? |
| 3 | Broadly speaking , the higher an individual is in the social strata the less likely he or she is to be arrested , prosecuted and ( if prosecuted ) found guilty . |
| 4 | That is , if she is to be believed . |
| 5 | Make up two sentences to show if she is to be told or not — watch them as you say them — hear them in your mind 's ear . |
| 6 | However , he learns to his anger and dismay that she is to be married . |
| 7 | In February , by contrast , she is to be one of Mr Wroe 's Virgins in BBC2 's serialisation of the Jane Rogers novel about a 19th-century religious sect . |
| 8 | SCREEN goddess Liz Taylor is furious that she is to be portrayed by Raquel Welch , the star she dislikes more than any other , in a film . |
| 9 | She is to be sentenced later . |
| 10 | Now , as we report on Page 15 , she is to be parted from the nursery school children whose friendship has helped to restore her health and build her confidence . |
| 11 | This crowded historical panorama of war and the power of beauty describes the birth of Ayesha as the mortal daughter of noble Arabian parents but suggests in recounting her long training in mysticism under an Egyptian priest and her guardianship of the Fire of Immortality in the shrine at Kôr that she is to be regarded in part as a spiritual being . |
| 12 | " recommend earnestly to them to purchase Timber , that may answer the purpose , from the wreck of the Brig stranded on Duich Bay , if she is to be broken up … " |
| 13 | There is no further mention of Ambrosia in the records , and possibly she is to be identified with the ‘ Dame Ambroise de Saint-Joire ’ named in 1288 among the first entrants to the Carthusian nunnery of Melan ( Haute-Savoie ) founded in 1282 by Beatrice de Faucigny . |
| 14 | It is significant that the court held that ‘ in a criminal case of this nature , where the wife is the party grieved and on whom the crime is committed , she is to be admitted a witness against her husband ’ and there is no specific mention of a marital rape exemption by any party at any stage of the proceedings . |
| 15 | She is to be chained hand and foot . |
| 16 | She is to be congratulated on the beauty of the pictures , the wealth of information she imparted on so many aspects and the most comprehensive display of books and articles created by Shetlanders . |
| 17 | She is to be artist of the month at Darlington Art Gallery in September . |
| 18 | MAUDE Alice Rand is 107 today and she is to be wished many happy returns by the Queen , the Queen Mother and the Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 19 | If she is not there you will find a notice on her door telling you where she is to be found . |
| 20 | As she is to be moving house and garden this year , she foresees a ceremonial tree-planting as a follow-up to the presentation . |
| 21 | The only way to make sure your bra is exactly right for you is to be professionally fitted in a department store or specialist underwear shop . |
| 22 | The substance of his approach to the application before him is to be found in the following passages from his judgment : |
| 23 | The law requires that an adult patient who is mentally and physically capable of exercising a choice must consent if medical treatment of him is to be lawful , although the consent need not be in writing and may sometimes be inferred from the patient 's conduct in the context of the surrounding circumstances . |
| 24 | This agrees extremely well with the fact that ( 20 ) is closely equivalent to ( 22 ) : ( 22 ) that is precisely the one It also provides us with a very satisfying explanation of the subtle difference between ( 23 ) and ( 24 ) ; ( 23 ) , with its non-restrictive relative seems at least somewhat odd , whereas ( 24 ) with its restrictive relative is quite acceptable , and so is ( 25 ) which has a non-restrictive relative but lacks the word very : ( 23 ) the very axe , which killed him , is to be sold ( 24 ) the very axe which killed him is to be sold ( 25 ) the axe , which killed him , is to be sold The reason is that the definite article indicates that some means of recognition is available to the audience . |
| 25 | It is to be regretted that many of the Government 's measures relating to its asylum policy introduced in the past few years , have been to discourage new arrivals . |
| 26 | To the question , therefore , which ought to hold the first rank , Raphael or Michelangelo , it must be answered , that if it is to be given to him who possessed a greater combination of the higher qualities of the art than any other man , there is no doubt but Raphael is the first . |
| 27 | His kin are entrepreneurs , a wandering bourgeoisie : they have known what it is to be strangers in tight corners , as he himself is a stranger in this tight African town . |
| 28 | Ivan Klima could be called a lyric author , and the notion of what it is to be such an author is examined in My First Loves , whose gentle and deliberate stories read as if they have been grown and stored before being made public . |
| 29 | Larkin 's poem complains in concert ; it takes up the question of what it is to be sexually debarred . |
| 30 | Levi 's double life as chemist and writer suggests that if art and work need to be separated , according to a certain sense of what it is to be a Jew , art and work are nevertheless very often the same . |