Example sentences of "is to " in BNC.

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1 Tony is to be admitted but … wait for it … to yet another hospital !
2 ‘ If there is to be an effective Christian response to AIDS we need to support organisations like ACET who are in the front line giving practical care and support . ’
3 Three quarters of the nation 's entire AIDS problem is to be found in London and the pattern of need is changing fast .
4 It is to be regretted that many of the Government 's measures relating to its asylum policy introduced in the past few years , have been to discourage new arrivals .
5 There may , however , be questions in her mind about the choices open to her : how will the information in a catalogue differ from what is to be found in a monograph ?
6 So , it is to the critics themselves we turn next .
7 To the question , therefore , which ought to hold the first rank , Raphael or Michelangelo , it must be answered , that if it is to be given to him who possessed a greater combination of the higher qualities of the art than any other man , there is no doubt but Raphael is the first .
8 This , I confess , is to me the real aim of art history .
9 How valuable biographical information is to literary or art criticism is a question that will never receive a decisive answer ; but a commonplace observation can be made , that circumstances alter cases .
10 If any one element in his style is to be singled out as predominant , it is that haunting expression of far-away desire never absent from the eyes and lips , and conveyed in every gesture , feature and attitude .
11 In seeing African sculpture reproduced , the reader can remember that this art is to an extent being misrepresented by photography .
12 His kin are entrepreneurs , a wandering bourgeoisie : they have known what it is to be strangers in tight corners , as he himself is a stranger in this tight African town .
13 But if his ‘ true nature ’ is to be romantically on the rise , and to have ‘ ideas ’ , it is also his nature to occupy the middle ground .
14 All four books reveal a steady concern with imitation and interpretation , and to read them together is to be clearer about what it is that the writer intends us to think that he thinks about things .
15 Ivan Klima could be called a lyric author , and the notion of what it is to be such an author is examined in My First Loves , whose gentle and deliberate stories read as if they have been grown and stored before being made public .
16 To imagine this is to be aware that the aggressive term which I have applied to Amis 's novelistic method , ‘ ventriloquism ’ , has the drawback of suggesting that when an author throws his voice , the character who receives it will necessarily be found to be inanimate , a dummy .
17 Larkin 's poem complains in concert ; it takes up the question of what it is to be sexually debarred .
18 The letter it sends is to an attractive friend who goes about ‘ bagging birds ’ , and who belongs to a world in which the beautiful say yes to the beautiful and wildly misbehave , a world which is said to be ‘ described on Sundays only ’ , in papers like the News of the World — but which is also described in Take a girl like you .
19 She is saying that this good thing , this knowledge , can be used — to tell us , for example , that Amis is not a Tudor writer : but she is rather more moved to say at the same time that it ca n't or can hardly be used , devoted as she is to the thought of a separation between , in this case , Amis 's friendships and politics , his life — and his art .
20 Levi 's double life as chemist and writer suggests that if art and work need to be separated , according to a certain sense of what it is to be a Jew , art and work are nevertheless very often the same .
21 He is a schoolteacher , 29 years old — the age of Christ at Calvary , whose name is often in his mouth , averse though he is to ‘ deities ’ , and perhaps of Hamlet , whose words enter the novel .
22 The point of preparation is to be well tuned and at the same time flexible to new interpretations and ideas .
23 Get in touch with the true essence of England , what it is to be English .
24 The next important lesson is to never apologise for being there .
25 Perhaps graduates of a number of drama schools might be given a provisional Equity card requiring a minimum number of engagements ( and/or weeks ) to be worked within the two or three years of it 's validity , if the holder is to be accepted into full membership .
26 It is to be noted that , in this , it was the laity who took the initiative .
27 The belief is to some degree affected by being told so by their authoritative pastors .
28 That is all there is to it .
29 And yet , he wrote , if the glass is to be any sort of advance , it will be because of the middle .
30 The Church is to the spirit as the inn is to the flesh , and , if good and well designed , they baulk the devil himself . ’
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