Example sentences of "[n mass] [am/are] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation is moving from Quebec and the new headquarters are to be in Rome . |
| 2 | The data are to be collected at the Patent Office in London . |
| 3 | Time series data are to be used and the hypotheses will be tested for other countries as well as the UK . |
| 4 | The database itself is structured according to the uses to which the data are to be put ( Section 2.4 ) . |
| 5 | If image data are to be correlated with map data then these properties of the image data must be removed and the pixel values forming the image must be re-expressed in terms of a map-compatible coordinate system at the required scale . |
| 6 | Senescent Eskimos , for example , might be thought to have had a raw deal if the stories of the banishment from the familial hearth of those unfit to hunt and fish are to be believed . |
| 7 | A. The stocking density of any pond or aquarium depends on the size of the body of water that the fish are to be kept in and the efficiency of the filtration system . |
| 8 | Some part of the pond should be at least two feet deep to allow oxygenating plants , essential if fish are to be kept in the pond , to flourish . |
| 9 | The absorption of the heretic Bosnian ( Bogomil ) Church into the Islamic world did not come about as a result of a dramatic act of mass conversion , but , if Ottoman statistics are to be believed , it was a relatively rapid process . |
| 10 | It is socialisation that transforms ageing into something that is to be feared , and leads us to believe that older people are to be pitied . |
| 11 | This research shows that there is an urgent need for social policies to overcome widespread age discrimination if older people are to be allowed to play their full role in society and realise their full potential . |
| 12 | When you book you will be asked how many games you wish to play and how many people are to be playing . |
| 13 | For video shoots in which individuals or groups of people are to be lit by direct floodlighting , the exact placing of the lamps becomes more important . |
| 14 | Wealthy people are to be shielded — by the party 's cast-iron promises that their taxes will be LOWERED . |
| 15 | But the government believes that , not least in the light of what is being achieved in other countries , the standards now generally attained by our pupils are neither as good as they can be , nor as good as they need to be if young people are to be equipped for the world of the twenty-first century . |
| 16 | Expectations have to be met if people are to be satisfied with their experience of a meeting . |
| 17 | If people are to be punished because they deserve it , it is natural to say that they should also be punished as severely as they deserve — that they should get their just deserts . |
| 18 | God 's people are to be practical in their love , because we realise that we were once restrained and confined , unable to live as God intended us to live . |
| 19 | We must have a relief plan that the United Nations can implement throughout Somalia if there is to be peace and if the people are to be relieved . |
| 20 | ‘ Over the next two years , these same people are to be faced with a rise of 25pc for domestic fuel — VAT at 17.5pc plus 3pc or 4pc price rises each year — then obviously there must be a significant increase in pensions and benefits in order for them to be able to pay . ’ |
| 21 | THREE Middlesbrough councillors who between them have notched up a century of service to local people are to be made freemen of the borough today . |
| 22 | Such people are to be pitied . |
| 23 | If the police authority was invited to co-opt people to add to their numbers , making sure that the majority still stayed with the councillors , then I do n't think one should have too much objection to it , but if it 's to be done in this er this way of central er of central allocation er in the form of the answer to the question to my noble friend Lord Lyle from my noble friend the Minister on the 17th of January which the Noble Lord , Lord Carrigan made reference in which these people are to be er i i it staggers me my Lord , I have to stop for the moment , it staggers me the er the insolence , the insolence of the Home Office in writing down job descriptions and personal profiles for people that are going to function locally . |
| 24 | It is necessary , at this third stage , to define the way in which staff are to be involved and the time-scale for collection . |
| 25 | New employees will need to start work as soon as the move has taken place and training plans must be initiated straight away if staff are to be effective quickly . |
| 26 | Costs include : buying or leasing the new property ; building and refurbishment ; staff costs ( including redundancy/severance payments , retention payments if staff are to be encouraged to stay until the move goes ahead , recruitment and training costs for new staff and relocation and removal allowances for those moving ) ; communication costs ( including the installation of telephone and telex facilities and changes to stationery ) ; occupancy costs ( including rent , rates , lighting , heating and security ) and other costs ( such as new machinery and the cost of removal of goods from the old to the new site ) . |
| 27 | The second project is not yet operational but staff are to be interviewed shortly . |
| 28 | There have been no fancy gimmicks in producing referrals , and the staff are to be commended for their considerable efforts . ’ |
| 29 | Staff are to be congratulated for the way they accepted the move , and on their commitment to making the new arrangements work . |
| 30 | A great deal of the success is in the way in which the contract has been handled , and all staff are to be congratulated on a thoroughly professional job in trying and often fraught conditions . |