Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [noun sg] be to " in BNC.

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1 The experience of Cherry Willingham School suggests that several key strategies need to be included if LMS is to be successful with support staff .
2 In May Justice Minister Kinkel announced that priority was to be given to the rehabilitation and compensation of victims of the SED regime , ahead of pursuing those accused of committing crimes or of assessing compensation claims of those who had been dispossessed of property by the regime .
3 This makes a mockery of one of the aims demonstrated by Seona Reid , director of the Scottish Arts Council for the development of the arts in Scotland , when she says that quality was to be rewarded wherever found .
4 Gain and loss are to be construed as extending only to gain or loss in money or other property , but as extending to any such gain or loss whether temporary or permanent ; and ( i ) " gain " includes a gain by keeping what one has , as well as a gain by getting what one has not ; and
5 There was no " hurdle " to surmount if representation were to be won ( in West Germany parties had to poll at least 5 per cent of the vote to enter parliament ) .
6 Strategic Planning Guidance … can provide the framework to begin the necessary work which will have to be undertaken if sustainability is to be given any credence within the development plan framework . ’
7 Here a change of social circumstances would be needed if vulnerability were to be reduced .
8 Accordingly , policies were re-written and strategies revised , firstly , to reflect the changes needed if Labour was to be kept at bay , and , secondly , to accommodate the non-Labour supporters of the old Liberal Party within the modern Conservative party .
9 I would , therefore , suggest that consent is to be explained by reference to its purported normative consequences only .
10 The Queen 's Speech also states that information is to be ’ available about the performance of individual schools . ’
11 SCREENS to shield child witnesses when giving evidence against adults they know and fear are to be installed at Darlington magistrates court .
12 This very selectivity of what the scientist chooses to notice and work upon is another reason for saying that science is to some extent subjective .
13 The L & NWR Loco Committee Minutes of 9 February 1847 state that water was to be supplied to tenants willing to pay an extra rent of 2p per week .
14 On top of that come huge sums of cheap credit to enterprises which must be reduced if inflation is to be controlled .
15 ‘ That 's where you have to start if football is to be improved .
16 The law of that state , as lex fori , will prescribe any special procedures to be followed where service is to be effected abroad .
17 I have never believed that consensus is to be spurned .
18 This framework must change if action is to be effective .
19 Sabine Jourdain had been killed because of what she was prepared to say , Barbara Coleman had been kept out of the way because of what she knew and Rain was to be killed before she could publish the story .
20 It implies that objectivity is to be sought , not by trying to root judgements in absolute standards , but on the contrary by treating all standards as provisional in order to get behind them to the reality of the concrete situation and the authentic response of the individual .
21 He frequently implies that knowledge is to be had by experience and by careful observation of the world .
22 The actual differences between the highest paid and the lowest paid have in fact changed only marginally in the past thirty years , and it is still broadly true that the richest 1 per cent of income earners enjoy a gross pay which is about four times greater than they would receive if income were to be equally distributed among the total working population .
23 Having grown up under the nose of the Israeli war machine , young Palestinians have come to the conclusion that , in the world they inhabit , might is right and the only way to survive and flourish is to be strong and violent .
24 It is especially essential that those who are responsible for implementation must have a thoroughgoing commitment to change if research is to be anything other than counterproductive ’ ( Engel 1977:176 ) .
25 To say that temperament is to a certain degree putty in the owner 's hands , is fair comment .
26 The Government has explicitly stated that help is to be targeted on industry and in the face of a continuing trade deficit , the recovery is hoped to be export-led .
27 The traditional industries of shipbuilding , marine engineering , shipping and fishing are to be seen here , together with an important collection of ships ' models .
28 But a degree of independence and impartiality will have to be achieved if re-investigation is to be beneficial .
29 Kalim Siddiqui , the outspoken leader of the Muslim ‘ parliament ’ , also agreed that wider forces had to be tackled if racism was to be stamped out .
30 The submission which Mr. Lester makes on the other hand is not restricted by reference to the type of statute and indeed the only way in which it could be discovered whether help was to be given is by considering Hansard itself .
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