Example sentences of "[is] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I have a pipe dream now , it 's to be involved in a Championship-winning side . |
| 2 | We would expect Mrs Reynolds 's to be present . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're doing great — what 's to be nervous about , sitting in an underground room with nobody listening to you , eh ? ’ |
| 4 | If it 's to be helpful if if Mr is saying on behalf of the Parish Council that by showing it in this way on the key diagram , he feels is prejudicing or the Parish Council 's position is prejudiced at some future date , then it 's to be helpful to that that the County Council is saying it is prepared to show it simply as a an arrow and similarly for consistency it would seem to make sense to show the western in the same fashion . |
| 5 | If it 's to be helpful if if Mr is saying on behalf of the Parish Council that by showing it in this way on the key diagram , he feels is prejudicing or the Parish Council 's position is prejudiced at some future date , then it 's to be helpful to that that the County Council is saying it is prepared to show it simply as a an arrow and similarly for consistency it would seem to make sense to show the western in the same fashion . |
| 6 | ‘ If it 's to be unlawful restraint , I need you . |
| 7 | So it 's to be clear in what you 're saying to be able to explain yourself clearly so it 's about clarity |
| 8 | Amory , a likeable and popular man , had been one of the few Conservative MP 's to be active in the campaign to end capital punishment in the late 1940s . |
| 9 | They 'd need to keep up this standard if it 's to be permanent |
| 10 | ‘ It 's to be fair shares for all , ’ he had said to Cathbad , and Cathbad had at once said , ‘ Oh dear me , yes of course . |
| 11 | ‘ So it 's to be Vortai Kha-Khan , is it ? |
| 12 | Eric Cantona 's to be precise . |
| 13 | That 's to be expected is n't it ? |
| 14 | Let us assume that we already know the size of sample , the type of respondent ( child , housewife , air traveller , etc. ) , whether or not questions are to be asked on more than one occasion , whether there are likely to be seasonal fluctuations , whether the study is to be factual or attitudinal or both , and so on . |
| 15 | But a degree of independence and impartiality will have to be achieved if re-investigation is to be beneficial . |
| 16 | In Pelkmans and Winters ( 1988 ) , and Padoa-Schioppa ( 1987 ) , there is discussion of the importance of appropriate institutional and legal frameworks in the areas of competition , regional , social , and technology policies if the European market is to be beneficial to all parties . |
| 17 | Estes and Binney ( 1988 , p. 69 ) describe the image of older people in America as ‘ to be old is to be frail , sick , dependent and vulnerable ’ . |
| 18 | Gordian goes on to provide that the same is now to apply in pecuniary cases : an action for trust is to be available in all circumstances . |
| 19 | As any of the information in the Figure 1 may have a bearing on a section in question , it can readily be seen that advanced hyper-text features are needed if all the relevant subject matter is to be available and easily reached in the electronic medium . |
| 20 | The client-server version is to be available in the second half of 1993 ; the terminal-based version early 1994 . |
| 21 | Louis Shores foresees the student shaping his own course and his own curriculum , with the library providing the main means of achievement of his objectives as he sees them ; the teacher is to be available " when needed " . |
| 22 | Each different form requires the mastery of its specific skills if , as is surely the object of the enterprise , the product is to be available and to communicate to all who may be interested . |
| 23 | As a rough-and-ready guide , one can think of these gestural usages as requiring at least a video-tape of the speech event if the proper interpretation is to be available from a recording . |
| 24 | If a non-competition covenant appears likely to infringe Article 85(1) exemption is possible under Article 85(3) although such an exemption is unlikely to be granted in respect of restrictive covenants because of the difficulty of showing that such provisions fulfil the four requirements set out in Article 85(3) that must be satisfied if an exemption is to be available . |
| 25 | ( 6 ) Where any part of the portfolio or account is to be available for investment in contingent liability transactions ( such as futures ) , the maximum amount or percentage so available . |
| 26 | While certain proteins cause these effects to a less extent than others , it is generally considered that uncontrolled adsorption of protein on surfaces in large amounts is undesirable if the surface is to be biocompatible . |
| 27 | If the reductivist is to be consistent , he will have to say not only that explicit existence claims are not a necessary constituent feature of a complete description of the world , but that explicit truth claims are n't either . |
| 28 | If the hon. Gentleman is to be consistent with his opening sentence in which he quoted AMMA 's report , he must proceed to argue — rightly — that the Bill is confused and inadequate for its purposes and he must tell us what revisions he will seek . |
| 29 | Any of these methods is satisfactory ; the important thing is to be consistent . |
| 30 | Again , the important point is to be consistent . |