Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [am/are] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | After take-off Beaton surveyed his surroundings : ‘ Silk-lined walls , arm chairs like Pullmans , various compartments for eating , sleeping , smoking — this is the aircraft that took Churchill to America … how grateful I am to be among the lucky ones on the last lap for home . ’ |
| 2 | The Cabinet heard a report from Gillian Shephard , the Employment Secretary , about measures to help the unemployed which are to be announced to coincide with the Budget on 16 March . |
| 3 | All of the references given above come from what is called the Priestly strand ( ‘ P ’ ) and as such they are to be dated to around the time of the Jews ' exile to Babylon in the sixth century BC — that is , according to the still widely accepted dating of this biblical strand within the source-critical school of thought ( though it must also be said that my own arguments as developed in this essay and elsewhere independently point to the exile as the time when these blood concerns and rituals would first have emerged ) . |
| 4 | ‘ And for that you 're to be pitied Aggie . ’ |
| 5 | Let me say immediately how glad I am to be here , looking forward with hope and enthusiasm to the task that lies ahead , working alongside many others in the building up of God 's kingdom within the diocese of Middlesbrough . |
| 6 | The initial response of Bishop Crowley immediately after his appointment was ‘ Let me say immediately how glad I am to be here ’ . |
| 7 | right , okay so anyway that erm one 's causing a little bit of concern , I 've got another one scheduled for March which I was going to centre on here where will come along and talk to us about the Editor and the Royal Visit and you know ee ach dear me how glad I am to be away from the Scottish Office |
| 8 | And how lucky I am to be living in Badminton , a beautiful Cotswold village , on the edge of a park in the middle of a great landed estate , with all the amenities provided at my landlord 's expense and responsibility . |
| 9 | I ca n't tell you how thrilled I am to be in closer contact with Medau again . |
| 10 | You realise how very lucky you are to be given another chance to be happy , and appreciate the blessing you have received in finding a soulmate and companion you can trust . |
| 11 | In any case , the closer you get , the more likely you are to be killed . ’ |
| 12 | The more distant one of those later groups is , the more likely we are to be able to construct a counter-example ; as is revealed in our own example where = you are a brain in a vat ; |
| 13 | The more highly constrained and ritualised the genre , the more likely we are to be able to identify norms . |
| 14 | ‘ Dear friends and relations , I think this is the moment when we should be aware of how lucky we are to be partaking of such excellent food and spare a thought for those less fortunate . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ How lucky we are to be in a band and not having to get up every morning to do a crappy job . |
| 16 | ‘ How lucky we are to be in a band and not having to get up every morning to do a crappy job . |
| 17 | The more often they mate , the more likely they are to be the one who fertilises the eggs , and the more certain they can be that the offspring they expend so much time and energy in rearing are theirs . |
| 18 | The authors speculate that this may be because , with a centralised collective bargaining system which is fairly remote from the workers , ‘ the less conscious they will be of the gains achieved , and hence the less likely they are to be credited to union activity ’ ( p. 109 ) . |
| 19 | The more shots you fire into somebody , the more likely they are to be dead at the end of it . |
| 20 | We want Annabelle and Steven to enjoy the things we never had , not to take them for granted , but to appreciate how lucky they are to be able to celebrate like this surrounded by their families and friends . |
| 21 | And we appreciate how honoured we are to be among the select few who they chose to share this very special occasion with them . |
| 22 | It is one thing to provide ( as in section 6(3) ( b ) ) that in the absence of special arrangements parental preferences is to prevail over a desire to keep places vacant on , for example , religious grounds : it is quite another to say that when some parental preferences are to be denied in any event as must be the case under section 6(3) ( a ) ) the choice of those parental preferences which are to prevail and those which are to be defeated should not be based on religious criteria . |
| 23 | Offline Integrity carries out checks on the files used by the LIFESPAN Offline System for retention of information relating to files which are to be offlined , those which have been offlined and those which are to be restored from the offline media . |
| 24 | Checks are carried out for retention of information relating to files which are to be offlined , those which have been offlined and those which are to be restored from the offline media . |
| 25 | Neither of these works , nor two more which are to be discussed , have attempted to integrate Eastern with Western art . |
| 26 | ‘ Those who are to be returned to unit as unsuitable can come overland together with those who will be required to form a second squadron to operate in a later phase . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ The most obvious way to begin is through the education of those who are to be citizens ’ . |
| 28 | The latest TOPS report and accounts list the participating employers as all those who are to be sold off under the Bill . |
| 29 | Therefore , the majority of those who are to be made redundant will either have their own homes or will buy them shortly after . |
| 30 | Those who are to be brought out will receive the best of care . |