Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [be] to [be] " in BNC.

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1 In her books this is to be found at its most extreme in Sara Crewe ( 1888 ) — expanded , following the stage version , as The Little Princess ( 1905 ) — a Cinderella story where a bullied little drudge at a girls ' school is restored to riches and esteem and the tyrannical headmistress humiliated .
2 Ray Kipling voiced the Institution 's appreciation of the train 's name , saying : ‘ The RNLI is delighted that an InterCity 125 is to be named Storm Force after its junior club .
3 To remedy these grievances it was enacted that the Charter of the Forest was to be kept in all its articles , that the perambulations made in the time of Edward I were to be observed , that those perambulations which still remained to be made should be made as quickly as possible , and that the forest boundaries in each county should be confirmed by royal charters , as laid down in the perambulations .
4 For example , if Figure 14 is to be described by an active sentence in the present tense ( e.g. ‘ The boy is hitting the girl with a flower ’ ) the main verb will require an — ing affix , whereas if the planning frame is that of a passive sentence ( e.g. ‘ The girl is being hit by the boy with a flower ’ ) the auxiliary verb will require an — ing affix ( but the main verb will not ) and the preposition by will be needed .
5 AN EXTRA £28 million is to be provided by the Scottish Office for the transfer of 600 people a year from long-stay hospitals to appropriate care in the community .
6 The final $100 million was to be provided from insurance carriers under directors ' and officers ' liability policies .
7 The complete range of Rumba micro-to-mainframe communications software from Wall Data Inc is to be marketed here by Wokingham , Berkshire based Azlan Ltd , which will also provide training and support .
8 For at least a further two decades that was to be the reality of an intransigent British position .
9 By agreement between the foster mother and the local authority the hearing of the substantive application for judicial review commenced on 11 December 1991 was to be treated as the hearing of the applications under section 10(9) of the Act of 1989 , and the foster mother agreed to the formal dismissal of her application for judicial review if leave were granted .
10 The new Regulations define a transitional period of 2 October 1992 to 31 December 1998 ( coinciding with the introduction of corporation tax Pay and File due in 1993 ) , during which provisional repayments in respect of accounting periods ending before 1 January 1999 are to be reduced by a prescribed percentage .
11 First , different description types ( noun/name ) may suggest that the individuals depicted in the descriptions concerned are to be contrasted .
12 If the help available was to be a free good then , in the USA , there would be a considerable amount of stigma attached to recipients of it .
13 Where judgment is given in a default action ( Ord 9 , r 6(1) ) for payment forthwith , it need not be drawn up or served unless a request to issue enforcement proceedings has not been made , or the plaintiff has abandoned part of his claim without amending his particulars of claim and serving the defendant , or where the judgment is interlocutory ( N 17 ) or where a Certificate for judgment under s 12 of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 is to be sought ( Ord 22 , r 1(3) ) .
14 ( a ) Duration of tenancy The duration of a new tenancy granted under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 is to be such term as is reasonable in all the circumstances ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s33 ) .
15 The idea was that the leading countries on the Evian Committee would join in promoting a public subscription of £20 million , of which £5 million was to be raised in London .
16 John Whitehead , Conservative member for the Thaxted , who backed the decision to close the local hospital said £10 million is to be spent on improving facilities at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow .
17 Held , allowing the appeal , that although ‘ action ’ in section 69 of the Solicitors Act 1974 was to be construed liberally it could extend only to forms of legal process and did not embrace a statutory demand , the service of which was merely part of the statutorily prescribed procedure for obtaining remedies afforded to creditors by a bankruptcy order and did not of itself initiate legal proceedings ; that a solicitor was therefore not debarred by section 69(1) from serving a statutory demand for payment of his costs before the expiration of one month from the date of delivery of his bill of costs ; and that , accordingly , since the statutory demand and petition were valid , they would be remitted to the district judge for hearing ( post , pp. 1029E–F , G — 1030A , 1031E ) .
18 ‘ ( 1 ) Whether section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968 is to be construed as though it contained the words ‘ without the consent of the owner ’ or words to that effect and ( 2 ) Whether the provisions of section 15(1) and of section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968 are mutually exclusive in the sense that if the facts proved would justify a conviction under section 15(1) there can not lawfully be a conviction under section 1(1) on those facts .
19 ‘ He stated tersely in terms , at p. 633 : ‘ The first question posed in the certificate was : ‘ Whether section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968 is to be construed as though it contained the words ‘ without having the consent of the owner ’ or words to that effect . ’
20 The first question certified was ‘ Whether section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968 is to be construed as though it contained the words ‘ without having the consent of the owner ’ or words to that effect . ’
21 ‘ One of the questions of law of general public importance which the House was required to answer was : ‘ Whether section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968 is to be construed as though it contained the words ‘ without having the consent of the owner ’ or words to that effect . ’
22 The Financial Statement for the year ending 31st July 1990 is to be found in the Annual Report 1989–90 .
23 The Bristol 167 was to be Britain 's great new advance on American types such as the Lockheed Constellation and Douglas DC-6 , which did not have the range to fly the Atlantic non-stop .
24 all women between 20 and 64 years old are to be invited for screening ( by March 1993 ) ;
25 all women between 50 and 64 years old are to be invited for screening by breast X-ray ( mammography ) by March 1993 .
26 Eliot had already agreed to share his new home with John Hayward who , having supervised its decoration , joined him a month after Eliot had " settled in " ; for the next eleven years this was to be their mutual address .
27 The years 1182–3 were to be the maker-break crisis of Richard 's rule in Aquitaine , faced as he was by so many enemies .
28 A complete list of art objects lost between Germany and Russia during and after World War II is to be prepared for a new , German , state-funded foundation which will aim to help both countries to regain their lost or displaced art works .
29 The communiqué issued after the talks with Latvia said that the troops concerned were to be regarded as " foreign military forces " leaving " another sovereign state " , and the schedule for departure was to be established with regard for the national security of the states and the welfare of military personnel .
30 your , your duty under article five is to be guided by the European court and indeed yes the competition law takes precedence over consideration of solvency and protection of policy holders , these are matters which can be reconciled under article eighty five three , not eighty five one
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