Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It then assumes a parliamentary intention that the steps which Parliament has enjoined or authorized for saving or minimizing tax shall not be effective if they are carried out for that purpose but are only to be effective if carried out for some other ‘ legitimate ’ business purpose . |
| 2 | His motive was probably connected with the part of the text which says that the estates of Christ Church and other Kentish churches are henceforth to be free of all secular service and royal debt . |
| 3 | What , you mean they 're only to be young leaders there . |
| 4 | As one teacher said , ‘ I am still to be convinced whether the energy and time required to do effective evaluation would balance the increased efficiency in teaching which might follow . ’ |
| 5 | There are also to be joint degree courses , joint research and exchange of staff for the 4,000-student college . |
| 6 | If students are really to be involved in their own Learning , then they must feel they do , in part , own it . |
| 7 | It would be just like being asleep in a box . |
| 8 | Or we can decide that there must be more to being alive than this and , like Jonathan Livingston Seagull , become intrepid explorers of life 's possibilities . |
| 9 | At the moment , I 'm still to be convinced . |
| 10 | Some of the landowning agencies that are most restrictive are those which might be though to be answerable to the public , or have their best interests at heart : the Forestry Commission , the Ministry of Defence and sometimes even the National Trust come to mind . |
| 11 | I 'm yet to be convinced . ’ |
| 12 | After this Firbank resumed his nomadism , and the settings of his books , too , were henceforth to be fantastic versions of foreign places : Vienna , Havana , Seville . |
| 13 | Such human resources were soon to be available elsewhere — notably in Japan — but for some decades they guaranteed to Europe and North America a monopoly of technical invention and discovery . |
| 14 | The wetlands and wastes of England were soon to be loud with their tumults . |
| 15 | But those who expected him to make a significant impact on the British championship were soon to be disappointed . |
| 16 | They were also to be subject to greater control by central government , since the Minister , as the President of the Board was to become , could intervene if an authority was not providing an education ‘ appropriate to the age , ability and aptitude of the child ’ . |
| 17 | From May 6 restrictions on the amount of money Greek travellers to EC countries might take with them were relaxed , as part of a Bank of Greece package of liberalization measures to meet EC guidelines ; Greeks were also to be able to participate as individuals on EC member countries ' stock markets . |
| 18 | Similarly , tenements given for maintaining a chantry or lights in some church or chapel , or given for some other alms , if they were alienated , were also to be recoverable by the donor or his heirs . |
| 19 | At Bologna in the late 1180s Lothar may have made the acquaintance among his fellow students of Peter Collivaccinus of Benevento , and others , who were later to be important in the legal developments of his pontificate , collecting papal legal decisions or decretals . |
| 20 | The American factor and the continued strength of a spirit of religious intolerance had proved decisive in Manchester and in 1854 they were equally to be central in the failure to find a single national organisational focus for antislavery commitment . |
| 21 | As the subject assessment proceeded it also became clear that the Subject Assessors were there to be supportive — not to look for mistakes , but to help us ’ . |
| 22 | Not least because he is the first senior politician for some time to write a book that is stylish , witty , beautifully observed and therefore vastly superior to the plodding tone employed by most ex-Cabinet ministers who confuse being there with being able to write an interesting account of what happened . |
| 23 | They are yet to be involved in the testing process : ‘ My real concern for my children is that they have n't gone through the tests for 14-year-olds yet , ’ he says . |
| 24 | We 've two weeks to go and we are nowhere near being ready . ’ |
| 25 | This is rather like being able to draw a straight line tangent at any point on a smooth curve . |
| 26 | Section 14(1) provides that , subject to a dispensation granted by the Secretary of State for Transport , a fishing vessel is only to be eligible to be registered in the new register if : |
| 27 | Our daughter is soon to be married and I shall be giving her away , but she would like both her stepfather and myself to speak at the reception . |
| 28 | No specialist knowledge of computers is needed — there is a series of menus to help you select what to look for , and a ‘ Windows ’ version of the database is soon to be available . |
| 29 | It is just to be cautious about carrying ideas far beyond the regimes in which they have currently been tested . |
| 30 | ‘ The disciplined use of decorative devices demands proper consideration of their function , ’ he emphasizes , ‘ even if or perhaps especially if that function is just to be eye-catching . |