Example sentences of "[subord] [noun prp] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | After one or two early passages of arms , when Wheeler had first come into the post , in which it became apparent that Wheeler was prepared to be a good deal nastier to Ian than Ian was to him , Ian had settled for a civil service manner in which he made no attempt to contribute to the department 's thinking . |
| 2 | The Declaration envisaged the abolition of all tariffs within the zone , although Ecuador was to be permitted to dismantle its strongly protectionist system in two stages — 50 per cent of its tariffs would be lifted by the end of 1991 , and the remainder by June 30 , 1992 . |
| 3 | Although the two men rode together to Granada , Rodrigo made the mistake of pitching his tents closer than Alfonso 's to the walls of the city . |
| 4 | She said , ‘ Oliver loves his tortoises , Like I love Mo , only they 're more real to him than Mo is to me . |
| 5 | My alternative account , a minimal one , seeks among other things to give fewer hostages than Brentano 's to philosophical fortune , or anyway to philosophical doubt . |
| 6 | ‘ But as Colin is to me , so Maurice was to you . |
| 7 | Although McGregor was to be paid £50 000 , the same as the man he replaced , the British government had to pay Lazard Freres $4.1m. over five years to compensate them for losing McGregor . |
| 8 | AB is a greater proportion of A20 than CD is to C50 , which in turn is of greater proportion than EF is to E70 . |
| 9 | We 've always been forest Romanies , but if Wychwood is to be chopped down Boz and the rest of us will have to take to the road . ’ |
| 10 | That vision could not be put into practice if Highland were to be governed by an authority the size of Belgium . |
| 11 | It was odd , Lucinda thought , that men should be doing a job more suited to women , but this was a real ship , was n't it , on which , if Molly was to be believed , women had yet to establish themselves . |
| 12 | If Bede is to be believed , Oswine proved an attractive ruler who gained the admiration of Aidan , which suggests that Oswiu faced a dangerous rival in this Deiran king whom he eventually out-manoeuvred and slew by treachery the ninth year of the latter 's reign ( HE 111 , 14 ) . |
| 13 | If McKinsey were to be taken literally , this structure would have to be taken apart and new structures created around the business units . |
| 14 | The country 's draft National Forestry Action Plan , drawn up with the help of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation , concluded that if Indonesia was to be self-sufficient in wood for its burgeoning paper industry , new pulpwood plantations would have to be developed . |
| 15 | It may all come down to Clark if Oakland are to be kept at bay . |
| 16 | If Ramsey was to be Archbishop of Canterbury , what was wrong with leaving him in the weighty see of Durham until the day came ? |
| 17 | Plaice , then , and two helpings — better make it three if Faustina was to be included — perhaps ‘ portions ’ was the word — and some chips . |
| 18 | If Fitzormonde is to be believed , we know the reason for the murders : Burghgesh 's death on that unfortunate ship in the Middle Sea so many years ago . |
| 19 | ‘ If Pinder is to be believed , it was missing at twelve-thirty , ’ said Sergeant Bird , taking a seat as quietly as a man of his bulk could manage . |
| 20 | Angela Cartwright , as chairman of the local Party , explained the procedure for calling a Special General Meeting if Grunte was to be de-selected , and the meeting adjourned after Carole Swan said she would take soundings among members of the Party after the conference . |
| 21 | Barnett will however know in his own mind that he has to replace the 2,000 runs scored by the departed Azharuddin if Derbyshire are to be effective challengers . |
| 22 | Anyway — Fjortoft put in a nice little goal for Norway last night — so if Frank is to be in contention ( ? ) he will have to beat Dino or Wallace for a place during this winter — which is not — that — probable . |
| 23 | So if Zurich is to be the centre of your Swiss exploration , be sure to book a hotel well in advance . |
| 24 | From the outside it looked like a bank ( and with good reason , if Wayne was to be believed : ‘ That guy , ’ Wayne said , ‘ he 's raking it in ’ ) . |
| 25 | Seventy years ago , if Eddington is to be believed , only two people understood the general theory of relativity . |
| 26 | By 1819 , if Shelley is to be taken as a reliable guide , Wordsworth 's stock had gone down and down : ‘ He was at first sublime , pathetic , impressive , profound ; then dull ; then prosy and dull ; and now dull — oh so very dull ! it is an ultra-legitimate dulness ’ ( Dedication to Peter Bell the Third ) . |
| 27 | Could n't have been for the sex if Rose is to be believed , so must have wanted you for dinner . ’ |
| 28 | Nothing in his IBM Corp background could have prepared him for the kind of speech he gave — in fact had to give , if Taligent is to be seen as the answer to the world 's ills . |
| 29 | If DCF is to be criticized , it is not the technique which is wrong , but the setting of discount rates which over-discount the future . |
| 30 | Christian priesthood is called to be fully human if God is to be known as fully God . |