Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [be] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not to know that is to be ignorant of the whole point of the affirmation . |
| 2 | However , this is still about 500 times larger than the gravitational red shift that is to be measured . |
| 3 | The growth of expectations and the greater willingness of government to intervene in areas previously considered inviolate was to be continued and become more marked in the twentieth century . |
| 4 | You 've got a frown Sandra , on the notice board above the fridge it says this is to be included in next years record of achievement which I presume will have to go into yours as well after my year |
| 5 | Having decided this was to be my subject , I made a still frame on my TV and photographed my television set with a Hasselblad . |
| 6 | A vast and ordinarily unnoticed area of the history of the arts is the development of systems of social signals that what is now to be made available is to be regarded as art . |
| 7 | Virgin Group Plc is planning to enter the mass-market UK personal computer business via a computer supplies company , Virgin Euromagnetics Ltd that it has owned for two years , the Financial Times reports : £12m-a-year Virgin Euromagnetics packages supplies such as floppy disks , which are sold in Virgin stores , and has designed an 80486 machine that is to be built under contract for Virgin in the UK , initially at a rate of around 3,000 a month ; the paper says that the machine may be bundled with a laser printer for about £1,200 , and the plan is to launch in September . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Erm however we would wish to see that policy complemented by the inclusion of the strategic exceptions policy erm and we know that I know that 's to be discussed tomorrow but I will mention now that I think it would have been much more useful to the discussion if we 'd have been able to discuss the strategic sites issue as part of this debate . |
| 10 | Peggy Wood and her team transformed the Davidson Room into an Aladdin 's Cave of Things Past and Present that was to be a magnet and a haven for members of the public . |
| 11 | And from C P R E's point of view we we would feel that the best way to do that is to is to reconvene if that 's the right word , the forum of Greater York authorities to look in more detail at at each of the sectors and under undertake the the technical comparison I think in a in in a fair and reasonable way which which I do n't think we 've really we 've really achieved during erm three hours of discussion today . |
| 12 | The way to do this is to be a worshipper at home . |
| 13 | We must , therefore , use such instances empirically to help to establish what the internal linguistic norms of the community actually are , and to do this is to be accountable to the data in quite a strong sense . |
| 14 | Now the purpose of therefore of this training course and any any training course is to do this is to be able to handle the arousal and increase your level of performance and even get the peak to move that way so for any level of arousal you 're getting better performance but you 're also able to handle a bit more butterflies a bit more of the nerves in order to perform effectively , and apart from a training course like this how do you achieve that ? |
| 15 | Of the sites affected 38 were to be closed in Germany , 13 in the United Kingdom , eight in Italy , seven in Turkey , five in Spain and one in the Netherlands . |
| 16 | ‘ The Government thinks 29 are to be shut in England by 1997 . |
| 17 | It was decreed that they were all to be suspended from their duties : commissioners were to hear complaints against them , and those found guilty were to be permanently removed from office . |
| 18 | Where the phrenologists went wrong was to be too arrogant about their pronouncements ; they were also wrong to suppose that the human skull gives us much information about the brain it was designed to protect . |
| 19 | Sometimes he wondered how the teachers could go on living , knowing this was to be their life , until the end . |
| 20 | ‘ I understood this was to be a private meeting . ’ |
| 21 | I think this was to be expected . |
| 22 | Which services these are to be is always a matter of dispute and may be a crucial factor in relations between central and local government . |
| 23 | The great all seem to have had this cross to bear , and that is no comfort — I think more is to be found in the wicked suspicion that perhaps it 's a thing those Snows have n't experienced . |
| 24 | Anyone belonging to these categories who had been taken captive was to be freed . |
| 25 | ‘ A bit tired , but the doctor said that was to be expected for a day or two . |
| 26 | Attempting to convey some idea of the massive population increase that is to be expected , Census Commissioner Amulya Nanda pointed out that an increase in population of 17 million a year was equal to the entire population of Australia . |
| 27 | ( iv ) In proof-reading any work produced on a word processor , pupils may have access to a computer spelling checker. ( v ) Pupils should be encouraged to use whatever presentational devices are appropriate for a given piece of work — particularly work that is to be displayed or made public . |
| 28 | The dominant benefit is the means-tested income support replacing supplementary benefit ( formerly national assistance ) in April 1988 , whereas under the Beveridge Plan this was to be a minor benefit providing a safety net for those not otherwise covered . |
| 29 | Claim form S.B. Claims 5 is to be issued for completion in all cases . |
| 30 | d's appeal dismissed on the grounds the documents which the medical examiner considered relevant were to be disclosed , but indiscriminate disclosure of all the records would threaten the confidentiality of p , without securing any benefit to d . |