Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [be] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My style has always been to be analytical , ’ says the man who gained a double first in maths at King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 2 | Opposition to the regulation considered here was to be expected from property owners … since it intruded on their interests not only directly , but also indirectly through the additional taxation necessary to finance its implementation . |
| 3 | Or , more critical perhaps , why — if evidence reviewed earlier is to be believed — many creative individuals even seem to have enhanced resistance to the mental illnesses to which , according to the theory outlined , their dispositions should make them more than usually susceptible . |
| 4 | All we can do now is to be prepared . |
| 5 | What was decided there was to be binding on all . |
| 6 | Though the five years they spent here were to be ultimately clouded by the death of first their eldest daughter in 1869 and then a few months later their infant son , it was probably the happiest period in their marriage , and they enjoyed social life with the local landowning gentry . |
| 7 | Once an action becomes defended there is to be a fixed period within which the parties will be required either to set the case down for trial , on the assumption that it has not been settled or been otherwise disposed of , or to report to the court . |
| 8 | To do otherwise is to be guilty of double counting . |
| 9 | She was shocked and upset and what she needed most was to be allowed to rest , alone . |
| 10 | Starting more was to be one of its responses to the April 1969 police raid . |
| 11 | It is important to ascertain the source of overseas receipts to ascertain how income derived therefrom is to be taxed . |
| 12 | ‘ I believe the only way we can go forward is to be value for money . |
| 13 | The age of the Church to which Jesus looked forward is to be marked by evangelism and the Spirit . |
| 14 | To think so was to be conned by the art dealers . |
| 15 | Little Gino , whose ambition had always been to be taller than four foot ten , had got a little too interested when it was his turn and even in the candlelight we could all see that he 'd deliberately got his charm bracelet tangled in one of Sorrel 's suspenders . |
| 16 | THE controversial film Cathy Come Home is to be screened on British television for the first time in 17 years in as attempt to highlight the plight of the homeless . |
| 17 | If the Lions trip here is to be worthwhile in terms of Test results and tour morale it is essential that this one is a victory . |
| 18 | The fact is that he went to a race meeting at Silverstone in 1965 and decided right then and there that what he wanted most was to be a racing driver . |
| 19 | All they need now is to be left alone . |