Example sentences of "[verb] they be to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they did not know they were to be presented with tickets to whisk two people off to Claridge 's . |
| 2 | Their goods were to be confiscated and all who protected them were to be pronounced excommunicate . |
| 3 | The children were given no explanations , no assurances ; only the oldest of the nine , a fifteen-year-old boy , was told they were to be questioned for a day . |
| 4 | As no vocal chords as we know them are to be found in the larynx , the sounds emitted probably come from the lips of the larynx . |
| 5 | Surviving Japanese aircraft are few and far between , recent trends to collect and exhibit them are to be encouraged , they represent a fount of experience and knowledge that has only slightly been dipped into . |
| 6 | That the Government , and the Bank considered as an instrument of the Government 's policy , will blame them is to be expected . |
| 7 | Villagers in Usk , Powys , thought they were to be the next flood victims when the River Usk rose 20 feet in three hours . |
| 8 | In his speech er in that debate the honourable member for Edinburgh central and the bench er in his place today , er welcomed the government 's acceptance of Sir Thomas ' and the select committee 's recommendation and agreed er that it was in his words , important that the statutory duty of auditors ought to be clear so that er to use his colourful phrase , if whistles are to be blown they 're to be blown without doubt . |
| 9 | You said they were to be brought as soon as they were drawn up . ’ |