Example sentences of "[det] this [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this is to be found even in the lower classes . |
| 2 | The value in all this is to better the lives of ordinary people . |
| 3 | SERAFIN : You 've no idea how deeply helpful all this is to me in a private capacity . |
| 4 | At the same time , the curriculum through which all this was to be achieved remained remarkably unexplored and neglected ; and in many respects this in itself was a comment on the nature of the reformers ' aims and aspirations . |
| 5 | A theoretical stress upon biblical study , an active laity , the reunion of Christians , and a positive commitment to the service of the world in its cultural , social and economic needs , coupled with an absence of guidance as to how all this was to be done and how far one could go in these various directions , led both to a state of real popular enthusiasm but also , almost inevitably , to tension and conflict . |
| 6 | Perhaps , she thought , that was what all this was to him . |
| 7 | All this was to be achieved by heading straight for Kuwait City and pinning down the Iraqis there ; and then by moving from the west in substantial force , enveloping and destroying Iraq 's elite reserve , the Republican Guard , with its T-72 tanks , described by French sources as ‘ the priority target . |