Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] is to " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , he learns to his anger and dismay that she is to be married . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Faragher ( 1985 ) found that police in Great Britain downgraded the seriousness of violence against women in the home , for although formal regulations state that it is to be treated as an arrestable offence , policemen often redefined the incident as lying outside law enforcement ( emphasized by Policy Studies Institute 1983b : 64 ) . |
| 5 | Tabasco is so well known that it is to pepper sauces what Hoover is to vacuum cleaners . |
| 6 | Yet there is no sign that it is to be applied . |
| 7 | A complainant would have to show that fewer women than men could comply with such a requirement and that it is to her detriment that she can not comply . |
| 8 | He did this so effectively that it is to this day referred to as the Wallace Line . |
| 9 | Mercury One-to-One has also confirmed that it is to beta test the service before the launch , which is planned for this summer . |
| 10 | Beccaria starts by looking at the justification of the right to punish ; he concludes that it is to be found in the social contract whose central tenet he declares to be ‘ the greatest happiness of the greatest number ’ ( it is possible that he is responsible for originating this particular cliché ) . |
| 11 | And we must not forget that it is to a Public Relations expert that we owe the invention of traditional Irish coffee laced with Irish whiskey , which nobody will deny is a very great improvement on Irish coffee tout court . |
| 12 | It was a kind of verse at which he himself excelled — there are those who say that it is to be found just under the surface of some of his apparently " serious " poetry — and Old Possum 's Book of Practical Cats has the spirit , if not the content , of the Bolovian stanzas which he had been writing since his early twenties . |
| 13 | The caveat , to state it simply , is that it is to be taken as a view of only our conception of what can be called standard effects : all those where the effects are not decisions , choices , like mental acts of persons , or ensuing actions . |
| 14 | ( 1.3 ) The possible argument consists in the premiss ( 1 ) that decisions and the like are taken to be effects but also to be no more than events which follow on conditions which are required for them , the further premiss ( 2 ) that it is to be presumed that we have a single conception of effects rather than several , and the conclusion ( 3 ) that all effects , including what have been called standard effects , are merely events preceded by conditions required for them . |
| 15 | A central feature of Goffmann 's approach to non-verbal behaviour is his assumption that it is to be visualised against the background of institutional norms which create the salient facts of social life . |
| 16 | For instance , in some intuitive , non-technical sense of ‘ probable ’ , we may be prepared to assert that it is to some degree probable that a very heavy smoker will die of lung cancer . |
| 17 | ‘ it was an unusual opportunity , to put it at its lowest , and that it is to be inferred from the evidence that it was one which was of particular interest to the Perot family . |
| 18 | The defence has been considered in a number of recent cases in which it has been held that it is to be applied in a flexible and pragmatic way . |
| 19 | Those who during the week at Lake Nona took the opportunity to ask questions about the running of America 's LPGA circuit , are convinced that it is to the players ' advantage that they leave the running of the association to its staff while they themselves concentrate on their golf . |
| 20 | He claimed that it was more accurate than any that had been made before , and there is a strong possibility that it is to be identified with the map which appears in the 1535 English Bible of Miles Coverdale [ q.v . ] . |
| 21 | It seems entirely possible that it is to this period — roughly from 873/1468 ( or perhaps earlier ) to 878/1473–4 — that the Muftilik of Abdulkerim belongs , that he succeeded Fahreddin Acemi on the latter 's death and must then later have resigned or been removed from the Muftilik , perhaps to make way for Molla Husrev when he returned from Bursa . |
| 22 | The only words from which it can be contended that it is to be implied are the words , ‘ I am glad to hear of your intended marriage with Ellen Nicholl . |
| 23 | Coffee will be served in the long drawing-room and , if you are to battle with me , may I remind you that it is to be in private . |
| 24 | To translate the corpus information a file was created containing two columns — the first field on each line contains the original LOB tag , the second field contains the tag that it is to be translated to . |
| 25 | Does The Faerie Queene insist that it is to be read in such a manner that its role as a history ( which as both epic and romance it can claim to be symbolically ) must be seen as intrinsically different from the account of the English in Ireland which Spenser outlines in A View ? |
| 26 | The point that I was seeking to make a moment ago — I reiterate it now — is that I think that it is to the advantage of everyone in Northern Ireland for the politicians of Northern Ireland , of all shades of opinion , to come together , to talk and to express their mutual wish for peace in Northern Ireland . |
| 27 | I understand that it is to be merged with 105 Royal Artillery Scotland . |
| 28 | Valuation work will be relied on by those instructing the firm for purposes agreed in the terms of engagement and , on occasions , the firm may be aware that it is to be relied on by third parties too . |
| 29 | He confirms that he has no objection to the location of the seat providing that it is to the North of the large holly tree on his land . |
| 30 | While its powers will be limited by both the president and the lower house , the fact that it is to be freely elected will give it hard-to ignore moral authority . |