Example sentences of "['s] [noun] be to " in BNC.

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1 According to Freedberg , the aim of Kosuth 's installation was to ‘ engender self-reflexiveness in each viewer 's judgment about the relations between art , morality and censorship ’ .
2 In the mid-1970s , it was seen by the Labour administration as part of a comprehensive strategy towards regional economic and physical development in that the SDA 's activities were to be mirrored in Wales by the Welsh Development Agency ( WDA ) and in England by the National Enterprise Board ( NEB ) .
3 Indeed , the House of Lords expressly approved the earlier judgment in Al Saudi Banque and Others v Clark Pixley ( 1989 ) 3 All ER 361 in which it was held that auditors did not owe a duty of care to a number of banks because it could not be established that the auditors knew either that the company 's accounts were to be shown to the banks or that the banks would rely on them in reaching decisions as lenders .
4 The instructor 's award is to be subdivided into those able to instruct on cliffs of less than 40 metres and 40 metres plus , and groups of less than 50 abseilers ( one coachload ? ) , and more than 50 people ( multiple coach loads ) .
5 But Tony Franjieh 's rise was to be short-lived .
6 Bobby Simpson 's judgement was to be proved right …
7 If God 's tent is to be a place of beauty and splendour , his priest must also be fittingly robed .
8 Of these identifications of a new underclass as the victim of affluence in the two-thirds ( affluent and Tory ) versus one-third ( not ) society , Bauman 's formulation is to be preferred to Saunder 's because it sets up issues which are subject to empirical review and it continues to use a conception of reproduction :
9 Mr. Ashworth and Mr. McGregor none the less submit either that , so far as the English common law is concerned , Walker 's case is to be preferred to any inconsistent later decision in any other jurisdiction , or that , as an action by a child for damages for pre-natal injuries had not been recognised as valid in the English courts before 1976 — the enactment of the Act of 1976 — such an action could not now be allowed to develop and the English common law should be taken as being what the latest United Kingdom cases available might have indicated before 1976 .
10 Now the village 's secrets were to be revealed at last .
11 Appeal from the Tribunal 's finding is to the Court of Appeal .
12 In the clearest challenge yet to the British Mountaineering Council 's agreed policy on bolts , the granite cliffs of Land 's End are to be equipped with bolts by a private company , assisted by controversial Cornish climber Rowland Edwards
13 Mason J. went on to explain the reasons why , in that case , the minister 's function was to be exercised by him personally .
14 She stressed that middle-class ladies needed to unite with their poorer sisters if men 's immorality was to be effectively challenged .
15 Rhetoric and promises are all right , but if Labour 's pledges are to be honoured , there is no question but that the ordinary taxpayer will be affected — or that some of those pledges will have to be reneged upon .
16 [ Ainslie 's maps are to be found in the Scottish Record Office , National Library of Scotland , and the British Museum . ]
17 London Lighthouse 's grant is to be cut from £300,000 to £150,000 .
18 His mother , now Mrs Bonnie , knew young Vernon 's vocation was to be a religious leader .
19 Soviets of people 's deputies were to be given the right to distribute land to individuals , to collective and state farms , to institutions and to enterprises .
20 One wonders how close the cost of Edward 's internment was to the £15 3s. 4½d. paid to Hugh Brice in 1471 for the cerecloth and spices used to embalm his predecessor , Henry VI .
21 Binyon 's volume does however bear out quite touchingly one point that Mrs Lowndes makes : that Hewlett 's ambition was to be known as a poet rather than novelist , though it was his historical romances in Wardour Street prose that brought him fame and money .
22 It was on the northern borders of France and the Empire , moreover , that the last act in the drama of John 's defeat was to be played out — at Bouvines on 27 July 1214 , when the coalition between the Plantagenets , Flanders and the German Empire was routed by philip Augustus 's army .
23 Orton 's intention was to outrage .
24 One of today 's letterbombs was to a farmer with convictions for cruelty to animals , the other to a cat breeder .
25 In F v West Berkshire Health Authority [ 1989 ] 2 All ER 545 , Lord Goff stated : where the state of affairs is permanent or semi-permanent , as … in the case of a mentally disordered person … there is no point in waiting to obtain the patient 's consent … the doctor must act in the best interests of his patient , just as if he had received his patient 's consent so to do … the lawfulness of the doctor 's action is to be found in the principle of necessity … the doctor must act in accordance with a responsible and competent body of relevant professional opinion … it may be good practice to consult relatives and others who are concerned with the care of the patient .
26 The further problem then arises as to whether the Commission 's confirmation is to be obtained before or after the entry into force of the national measures .
27 That at least was the rationale behind the nepotism , though in practice Nicolae Ceauşescu 's brothers were as little use to him in the final analysis as Napoleon 's brothers were to the beleaguered emperor .
28 This is a choice between two types of reading , in that one can choose between them on the basis of whether the novel 's contradictions are to be articulated and sustained in the act of reading ( " rhetorically aware " ) or suppressed by the reading ( " aesthetically responsive " ) .
29 But the damage had been done , and Wilson 's elevation of Eliot at Pound 's expense was to be Echoed time and again for at least thirty years , and indeed is still to be heard even today .
30 Thanks were extended to Surrey for providing refreshments and October 's tea is to be organised by N. London , Hounslow , Hants. , and Sussex with Adrienne Ring as co-ordinator .
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