Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] is to " in BNC.

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1 Cleaving and becoming one is to be in every area of our being — spiritual , psychological/emotional and physical .
2 That a subject is capable of noticing whatever is to be perceived can be broken down into two individually necessary and jointly sufficiently conditions :
3 Deciding what is to be done , and who is to carry out the tasks involved .
4 Reforms of this kind point to the importance of attending to the purposes and social context of teaching , if teaching itself is to be changed .
5 However , one way of doing it is to first fold your arms as in the diagram .
6 ‘ Perhaps where I 'm taking you is to the nearest police station … ’
7 Some companies take this responsibility out of the salesperson 's hands and produce daily worksheets showing who is to be called on and in what order .
8 Record s of achievement record positive achievements and the student has a large say in selecting what is to be recorded .
9 History knows a cynical law : that in all lands politicians dislike ecclesiastics who interfere and therefore , when influencing who is to be a new bishop , prefer not to have bishops too practical and too effective ; and a respectable way of having ineffective bishops , the only respectable way , is to have otherworldly bishops , who live to God and spend much time in prayer and are not well informed on matters of this world .
10 It is a formulation of the objectives of an assessment scheme , classifying what is to be assessed and possibly how the assessment is to be carried out — or at least the constraints within which choices of assessment method is permitted .
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