Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] [be] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Likewise Caroline Bynum , in Holy Feast , Holy Fast , her book about medieval women religious , pours a rigorous historian 's scorn on the idea that the extreme penitential fastings of some of these women can really be diagnosed as anorexic , or as any other sort of neurosis ( as proposed for example by Rudolph Bell in Holy Anorexia ) : not merely are the case histories inadequate , but these women 's understanding of their bodies , of their relationship to Christ , of their right to participate in his sufferings , of their sense of identity , their very selves , was formed in a social environment so different from our own that nothing is to be gained by reading off their lives in this way rather than exploring in proper detail what it was they did feel and think . |
| 2 | Hence , Ealhfrith began to favour Roman tradition while his father , Bede says , considered that nothing was to be preferred to the teachings of the Scottish clergy ( HE III , 25 ) . |
| 3 | The gentleman took due note of it in a single glance , decided that nothing was to be gained by ill temper , and , reassembling his smile , he turned it upon her full-force . |
| 4 | For it was she who told herself that nothing was to be gained at this moment by recrimination , that Sir George 's land and influence at Stockton were still big assets ( though nowhere near worth the price at which they had been bought ) , and that a moping Sir George — a sackcloth-ashes flagellant — could be all it needed to bring the whole structure of confidence tumbling down . |
| 5 | Nor do I believe that anything is to be gained by analysing the reported cases in what is presently a contentious area of the law . |
| 6 | In the eighteenth century the French naturalist Buffon remarked : ‘ Young cats are gay , vivacious , frolicksome , and , if nothing was to be apprehended from their claws , would afford excellent amusement to children . |
| 7 | I saw only that , in this magical new view of the world to which I had been introduced , scepticism and gullibility must be harnessed in tandem if nothing was to be missed . |
| 8 | Each must inform the other and the LEA if someone is to be suspended . |
| 9 | If someone is to be tried for matters as serious as those for which Mr. Beck was tried and to receive the condign punishment that Mr. Beck received , it is essential that he should have a fair trial and that he should be given every opportunity to deploy his defence . |
| 10 | If someone were to be left alone in one of these structures , not only would the physical senses be deprived , but the individual would be in a psychic atmosphere well suited to the encouragement of inspirational and prophetic experiences . |
| 11 | He referred to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 , which stresses that there must be some objective basis for reasonable suspicion if somebody is to be searched , such as the individual 's behaviour or information received . |
| 12 | Only three spare rooms were to be provided on the second floor of the Foreign Office , and none were to be provided in the War Department . |
| 13 | Nothing is to be gained by it and everything is to be lost . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , he had a very good record in England but I feel hi is sacrificing skill at the expense of power — or brute force if one is to be honest about it . ’ |
| 15 | The answer , if one were to be found , quite obviously lay outside the restrictive confines of manly pursuit . |
| 16 | In fact both treatments would work even if one were to be marginally better . |
| 17 | I have not heard of such an initiative , but if one were to be promulgated by the Community , we would consider it carefully . |
| 18 | People were poor ; even the better-off worked grinding hours on their farms , and if anything was to be fussed over , it was the old people or the children . |
| 19 | If anything was to be found it would not lie in the open . |
| 20 | He went round the corner of the building shining his lamp but nothing was to be seen . |
| 21 | There were to be three more co-opted Governors , to be appointed for a term of five years , but none was to be appointed until the original " life " Governors gave up their seats . |
| 22 | In Sutcliffe v Thackrah [ 1974 ] AC 727 at 763D Lord Salmon explained the point as follows : In Re Hopper Cockburn CJ … was … saying that the question whether anyone was to be treated as an arbitrator depended on whether the role which he performed was invested with the characteristic attributes of the judicial role . |
| 23 | Most looked well fed , plump even , but in the alleyways off the markets , Athelstan saw the poor , not like those in his parish but the landless men driven from their farms , flocking into the city to look for work though none was to be had . |