Example sentences of "[adv] is to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All four books reveal a steady concern with imitation and interpretation , and to read them together is to be clearer about what it is that the writer intends us to think that he thinks about things . |
| 2 | He purchased of me — the copies left on my hands — and he alone is to be applied to on the point you wish answered . ’ |
| 3 | manufacturing overhead only is to be included in WIP to lower the valuation |
| 4 | 'P' — if a primary run only is to be done , |
| 5 | 'S ' — if a secondary run only is to be done or |
| 6 | This colonnade carried a classical entablature and above was a plain wall ( where the Medieval triforium normally is to be found ) and above this a row of small clerestory windows . |
| 7 | ‘ What exactly is to be our position ? ’ |
| 8 | Once height at school entry has been measured nothing further is to be gained from such a delay . |
| 9 | THE controversial film Cathy Come Home is to be screened on British television for the first time in 17 years in as attempt to highlight the plight of the homeless . |
| 10 | If you force people to choose between a family and a job I suppose , you know , women lots of women choose the family erm the only way women will achieve more educationally is to be able to combine the two things and not always have to make these crippling decisions and choices between two things which most human beings want , so there is a lot of money being spent on research into sex inequality and so on , and that 's encouraging , but I think it 's being spent in slightly the wrong way and I think there 's a tendency to evade the crucial issues which are , of course , rather deep social issues about the organization of the family and work and they take a lot of changing , so I am ambivalent about that one . |
| 11 | Quality also is to be addressed with efforts made to increase the number of accredited companies and to introduce a Scotland-wide individual-consultant accreditation scheme . |
| 12 | From there she writes that she also is to be involved in classes for the elderly . |
| 13 | It is important to ascertain the source of overseas receipts to ascertain how income derived therefrom is to be taxed . |
| 14 | Greater specialisation can also narrow horizons : ‘ For me , the highest pinnacle of achievement now is to be the director of a broadcast production . |
| 15 | All they need now is to be left alone . |
| 16 | All we can do now is to be prepared . |
| 17 | That 's when Chelsea are due to announce whether or not Glenn Hoddle really is to be their new manager . |
| 18 | Her dream really is to be teaching at City of London School |
| 19 | If the flavour of his text so far is to be believed , Bozzy was as much a soldiering man as Coleridge , which is saying less than very little . |
| 20 | Third , a labour division of the High Court would contribute to the process of constitutional reform in Britain which surely is to be a key political issue in the 1990s . |
| 21 | To be truly modern today is to be anti-modern ! |
| 22 | Very roughly , my wanting the window open a moment ago is to be understood not only in terms of the stuffiness of the room ( the stimulus ) , and my subsequently opening the window ( behaviour ) , but also in terms of various beliefs , attitudes , and the like , including certain ordinary causal beliefs about open windows and perhaps attitudes having to do with propriety and the neighbours . |
| 23 | However quickly he may have acted , the actual taking of the handbag must have taken more time than seems to have been available — since Eddie Stratton and Shirley Brown were seen walking out of The Randolph almost immediately , if the evidence of at least two of you here is to be believed , the evidence of Mr Brown and Mrs Roscoe . |
| 24 | If the Lions trip here is to be worthwhile in terms of Test results and tour morale it is essential that this one is a victory . |
| 25 | Determining what precisely is to be bought is also negotiable . |
| 26 | Or , more critical perhaps , why — if evidence reviewed earlier is to be believed — many creative individuals even seem to have enhanced resistance to the mental illnesses to which , according to the theory outlined , their dispositions should make them more than usually susceptible . |
| 27 | A major part of the explanation undoubtedly is to be found in the areas of management practices , labour relations and business organisation , which are discussed below [ Chapter 5 ; Bacon and Eltis , 1974 ; Pratten , 1976b ] . |
| 28 | Once an action becomes defended there is to be a fixed period within which the parties will be required either to set the case down for trial , on the assumption that it has not been settled or been otherwise disposed of , or to report to the court . |
| 29 | But in the most unlikely of places the announcement that a nuclear power station , a motorway , an institution for criminals , and so on is to be built , is likely to result in protest which requires police assistance , and sometimes law enforcement . |
| 30 | It is considered that the coats will be fitted with better effect agreeable to this pattern on reaching the regiments and for this purpose the fringe etc. is to be sent in materials to each corps ’ . |