Example sentences of "[adv] they [be] to be " in BNC.

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1 In Buckinghamshire four of the five wealthiest lived in Aylesbury , Amersham and Buckingham , and elsewhere they were to be found at places like Bromsgrove and Kidderminster , Worcs. , and Blakeney , Little Walsingham and Great Yarmouth , Norfolk .
2 Now they are to be scrapped and sold off as scrap metal .
3 The league recently relaxed the overseas-player rules for the Crusaders — before they were allowed only five imports , three more than other teams , now they 're to be allowed 10 .
4 It had taken her three full days and now they were to be carried downstairs and arranged in the hall , after which her sister would take them to the post office .
5 It had seemed perfectly all right for a working married couple , but now they were to be invaded .
6 The sheet , pillow-case and towel calculations are fairly simple once you have decided how many to allocate to each conference guest and how often they are to be replaced .
7 By experiment and observation , Hahnemann worked out the drug pictures of many remedies and laid down the principles whereby they were to be used — remedies and principles which are still as valid today as they were when Hahnemann first discovered them .
8 Sometimes they are to be found in close proximity ; and there are certainly empirical connections between them .
9 Sometimes they were to be found in a corner , solemnly talking to a rather battered doll whose arms and legs were always popping off , waiting to be clipped on by a passing ‘ brother ’ who was inevitably obliging .
10 If they have both come to terms with their differences and can now work together successfully , then they are to be congratulated .
11 ‘ If your friends ’ mothers despise me for working in a supermarket , then they are to be pitied .
12 Then they were to be put in a tin or other suitable container .
13 The choreographer 's problem is to select which of the movements are appropriate , when and how they are to be incorporated and what style and quality they require .
14 When children do arrive , it is their parents , not their grandparents , who should decide how they are to be brought up .
15 All local plans are intended to develop in detail the broad structure plan policies and indicate how they are to be applied on the ground .
16 Now you put your shoulder to the wheel , your nose to the grindstone , your best foot forward and your back to the wall to see how many clichés you know and how they are to be interpreted or ignored .
17 Again , the counsellor should have prepared the ground thoroughly before the meeting starts , outlining the main areas of concern , and how they are to be introduced .
18 In either case , there will eventually be a need for the consideration of the kinds of human operators required and how they are to be selected and trained .
19 If actions are uncaused then it is not clear how they are to be explained , while , if they are caused , they are not autonomous .
20 For Althusser 's claims are by no means easy to understand , and one reason for this is the fact that they are all exceedingly general , so that it is often unclear how they are to be used for the vital task of explaining particular states of affairs .
21 Most of the vital questions as to how these skills are acquired , how they are to be selected and adjusted according to context , how easily or not different kinds of school environment can accommodate them and so on , are begged .
22 Community nurses have been waiting for news about how they are to be organised for some time , and uncertainty about the future is always bad for morale .
23 In written language , for example , since there is no one-to-one correspondence between the marks ( alphabetic representations ) on the page , and how they are to be pronounced in speech , there is typically a range of alternatives as to how a written letter should be said .
24 It is one thing to speak of involving the student , " teaching concepts rather than facts " , " practising skills " and all the other catch phrases of educational discourse ; it is quite another thing to put them into practice , to find out how to involve the student , to elucidate which concepts are of most importance and which facts are necessary to their understanding , and particularly to distinguish which are the key skills and how they are to be most usefully practised with these students in this situation .
25 The words ‘ in connection with ’ have the widest connotation and I can not see how they are to be restricted in the absence of some context permitting such restriction .
26 They should state how they are to be published or intimated to persons interested .
27 Declarative : The associations between strings and the informational domain are declared in terms of what associations are permitted , not how they are to be calculated .
28 Would it not be a good idea , given the suggestion that all these shady capitalist things happen on only one side of the House , to discuss pension funds and how they are to be controlled ?
29 What I said to you yesterday , I hinted that there were difficulties we do n't know how they are to be resolved .
30 The problem is one of determining what those rights are , how they are to be protected , and how the independence of the judiciary is to be maintained .
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