Example sentences of "they to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are they to be sharply accented upwards with a hold on the downwards accent as they are in Ashton 's version of the Act III pas de quatre in Swan Lake ? |
| 2 | Or are they to be softly stretched and so angled that they curve upwards and over before descending silently as in Fokine 's Les Sylphides ? |
| 3 | Were they to be friends ? |
| 4 | To some all this will appear to be petty , intrusive and narrow-minded along the lines of ‘ What right had they to … ’ ; to others it will appear an example of the chapel 's commitment to their beliefs . |
| 5 | School friends who spent their summer holidays at the shieling have assured me that the cows were as alert as they to the seasons and the signs of preparation . |
| 6 | This begins to face education managers with a fundamental dilemma — are they inside the cage with the teaching profession or are they to be on the outside exercising a more explicit control function than ever before ? |
| 7 | After we have chosen the appropriate remedy to give in LM form , the first choice , after the potency , is how much of the granule is the patient to take i.e. the dose , how often it is to be repeated and for how many days are they to be on that particular potency . |
| 8 | Before they to the Pauper 's Suit would yield , |
| 9 | Rye is officially what is called an ‘ Ancient Town ’ attached to the Cinque Ports , those small ports along the coasts of Kent and East Sussex which were fortified against the French ; so necessary were they to the Crown that , in 1278 , they were given legal privileges : exemption from taxes , the right to rule themselves and appoint their own judges . |
| 10 | But can less authoritarian forms of moral discipline be effective and if so , how are they to be achieved ? |
| 11 | So addicted were they to this practice , which relieved their frugal existence by exporting their products to the more populous dales , that they earned a reputation as ‘ the terrible knitters of Dent ’ : terrible not because their handiwork was slipshod but because of their complete dedication to the craft . |
| 12 | Even less than Local Authorities are they to be relied on for continuity of policy , or an ability to look beyond the day after tomorrow . |
| 13 | They belong to the countryside and were they to be evicted the countryside itself would cease to exist . |
| 14 | Indeed , some would say , without much exaggeration , that , were they to be deprived of music , life would lose its meaning ’ ( Storr , 1970 , p.363 ) . |
| 15 | How in this context are they to be drawn back to Jesus ' people ? |
| 16 | What were they to her ? |
| 17 | Ceauşescu was happy to meet this condition : for him , as for any true follower of Lenin , a trade union was ‘ a transmission belt of authority ’ ; if the union officials could not get the workers to meet their targets , failed to anticipate strikes , and then did not resolve them at once , what use were they to the regime ? |
| 18 | What value are they to anyone ? |
| 19 | How strong ‘ ought ’ they to be anyway ? ’ |
| 20 | No longer are they to be considered as Princess Diana 's or the Duchess of York 's children . |
| 21 | Clearly , it could not have enhanced it ; why obey a legal system in which senior officials publicly pose as against one thing but privately collude in its occurrence — not only ought they to be condemned as hypocrites but their laws ought also to be disregarded as mere propaganda concealing the lack of will to control corporate behaviour . |
| 22 | ( A trifling proportion , perhaps — though students of the trivial are usually intrigued to learn that all the dissolved salts in the sea , were they to be dried out , would be enough to cover the entire land surface of the planet to a depth of 150 feet . ) |
| 23 | These are sheets from an accounts book , what are they to me ? ’ |
| 24 | Such skills and abilities are not the prerogative of a particular sort of teacher or of a particular style of teaching — nor are they to be found only in teachers who work with the youngest children in our primary schools . |
| 25 | How are they to be kept ‘ apart ’ ? |
| 26 | Once you 've stuck your shapes and text on the page you can rotate and repeat they to your heart 's content . |
| 27 | Their paths first crossed some twenty years ago when a mutual friend , the poet Craig Raine , introduced they to one another in the Blackfriar pub off Fleet Street . |
| 28 | but what are they to you ! |
| 29 | How were they to be filled ? |
| 30 | The model being offered here suggests that far from merely being tools or means , they to a large extent constitute our stances in and towards the world ; in this sense , they lie across the base of the pyramid in Figure 2.1 . |