Example sentences of "[pron] [be] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know Victor and I are to be married . |
| 2 | ‘ For your information , Lucy and I are to be married — as soon as possible . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Lucy and I are to be married . ’ |
| 4 | If I am to be autonomous , God must go . |
| 5 | On Mr Gajdusek 's behalf , I feel he must mean I am to be impersonal in any help I give you with your problems . |
| 6 | I am to be married . |
| 7 | ‘ If I am to be disappointed , I should like to get it over . ’ |
| 8 | He said : ‘ I am doing it my way and if I am to be able to beat Alain Prost I want to do it on the track by out-driving him , not by any other means . |
| 9 | Some boys if I 'm to be honest , but we have n't yet worked out the right way of gong about it . |
| 10 | Many people have found its traditional keystrokes to be somewhat less than mnemonic , an opinion I tend to subscribe to , if I 'm to be honest . |
| 11 | If I were to be critical it would be to say that the scratchplates could be finished off more tidily , and occasionally the necks and bodies do n't look entirely new — although that 's hardly surprising , really . |
| 12 | But I was to be disappointed . |
| 13 | My father travelled to Nairobi by way of Mega , Moyale , Marsabit , Laisamis and Nyeri , all places with which I was to be familiar some fifty-five years later . |
| 14 | But I like to think they knew I was to be married . |
| 15 | How glad I was to be homeless . |
| 16 | Someone had gone to Germany , someone had returned from London , someone was in hospital , someone was to be married . |
| 17 | Equally with a sensation , saying ‘ by ‘ pain ’ I mean that ’ will only achieve the desired effect if we have some means of separating characteristics which are to be relevant from those which are not . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , expectations are rising that Sun will soon announce its awaited 45MHz Model 52 and 54 , which are to be dual and quad processor machines , along with perhaps an unanticipated 45MHz uniprocessor ( the Model 51 ? ) and a 50MHz single , dual or quad configuration ( the Model 61 ? ) . |
| 19 | Section I of this Act clearly sets out how education is to be administered and identifies the bodies which are to be responsible for the implementation of educational policies . |
| 20 | Beyond the V-bombers , which were to be high-altitude , subsonic aircraft with a range of 1,500 nautical miles , the Air Staff envisaged a supersonic successor with greater range and navigational accuracy . |
| 21 | This was the first of many long sieges which were to be characteristic of the war . |
| 22 | I regard it as important in considering the benefit which is to be subject to taxation that the benefit should be identified . |
| 23 | Some of the smaller ones which concentrate very largely on teacher education , which is to be subject to substantial reductions , look particularly vulnerable . |
| 24 | The literary work is to define the mould which is to be instrumental in shaping the life 's work . |
| 25 | Another is the American way , which is to be fast , polite and cheerful . |
| 26 | If we seek a constitutive relation which is to be characteristic of a material but not dependent on its dimensions then the use of stress and displacement follows , for otherwise the behaviour of two differently sized samples of the same material would be seen to be different . |
| 27 | ‘ It fails to meet the central question in Scottish politics which is that any change which is to be meaningful must involve the transfer of political and legislative authority from Westminster to a parliament elected in Scotland by Scots . |
| 28 | ‘ Nobody is to be late , ’ she ordered . |
| 29 | The treaty of Kutchuk-Kainardji was drawn up in 1774 in both Russian and Turkish versions but with a master copy , which was to be authoritative in case of dispute , in Italian . |
| 30 | Her formal education , after a brief period in Islington , was in a school in Heidelberg where , as well as developing her musical talents , she acquired a facility in languages which was to be useful in her later career . |