Example sentences of "[be] to [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am to be the new Archdeacon here . ’ |
| 2 | Observation and participation in the installation ceremonies are to be the major tools of research and have been made possible by earlier field-work . |
| 3 | Great is the festival hall where you are to be the only guest . |
| 4 | Planning , social inquiry reports and enforcing court orders are to be the future task of probation , with an emphasis on the new task of the management and organisation of time , resources and workloads . |
| 5 | It is not necessarily romantic — that is , restrictive , unreal , exaggerated — to draw on the upper deck for the individual characters whose attitudes and decisions are to be the driving force of a story . |
| 6 | The Bootle coal mountains are to be the focal point of a demonstration against imports and pit closures tomorrow . |
| 7 | The loans were to be administered by a specially formed company under contract to the government ; but the government has been unable to secure the co-operation of the major banks , who were to be the chief participants in the new company , and the loans scheme is in disarray . |
| 8 | Top talks as if it rested with me to settle who were to be the Unionist candidates for the constituencies . |
| 9 | If £20 were to be the standard fee , which I support , then OAPs and the unemployed could get a £10 discount . |
| 10 | He points out that petrol is now very cheap : if , in real terms , it were to be the equivalent price of a decade ago it would cost over £4 a gallon . |
| 11 | There was a substantial issue of fact as to whether or not the elderly parents , who were to be the principal debtors , had received the letters written by the creditor advising them to take independent legal advice . |
| 12 | For the better part of the next forty years they were to be the decisive restraints . |
| 13 | ’ The black majority were to be the prime targets ’ |
| 14 | The Symposium was at pains to stress that it was the black majority who were to be the prime targets of any campaign . |
| 15 | In 455 the Goths were to be the prime movers in his elevation to imperial office . |
| 16 | Strikes by Doherty ‘ s National Union of Operative Spinners , and in the coal fields , greatly alarmed Peel , at the Home Office ; and , in what were to be the dying days of the Tory administration , he looked unsuccessfully for a legal answer to what he called ‘ the constitution and acts of a confederacy calculated in its immediate effects to disturb the peace of the manufacturing districts , and capable , if allowed to gain strength and consistency , of being converted at once into an open resistance to the law . ’ |
| 17 | These were to be the major elements of the action project . |
| 18 | Realism had flourished with Defoe , Richardson , Fielding and Smollett , and these were to be the presiding deities of the new British novel . |
| 19 | The first two years of education were to be the academic years , and there were proposals for these two years also to be seen as discrete and eligible for a Diploma of Higher Education . |
| 20 | Beneath them were to be the fascist Legions , the militant branch of the League who were divided into active and passive sections of members . |
| 21 | To many within the underground , and in the media 's eyes , in the years ahead Ferrier and Neville were to be the archetypal underground beautiful couple . |
| 22 | Whether NoS could be classified as ‘ Loony Left ’ or not , the majority of its council backers were to be the big names on the Sun hit list . |
| 23 | The years 1182–3 were to be the maker-break crisis of Richard 's rule in Aquitaine , faced as he was by so many enemies . |
| 24 | Movies had always been made about the past , of course , if not so very frequently about that immediate past whose primary unit of measure is the decade rather than the century ; but it was probably Visconti 's The Damned in 1969 that inaugurated what were to be the definitive parameters of a new filmic style . |
| 25 | Kawanishi were to be the main assemblers . |
| 26 | The local authorities were to be the main organisers of hospital provision , combining together in joint authorities to plan care in their areas , including the voluntary sector . |
| 27 | It 's to be the usual passive wanks from now on . |
| 28 | The rational agent can then calculate the expected utility of each action by assigning a ‘ utility ’ ( a quotient of happiness , so to speak ) to each consequence and discounting it for how likely or unlikely it is to be the actual consequence . |
| 29 | But Joe 's main purpose in the novel is to be the moral standard and to show what Pip could have been and how he could have lived his life without the money . |
| 30 | If this latter is to be the ultimate model , with the student 's role being somewhere between that of a battery hen and a laboratory rat , then surely most teachers would wish to have no part in its evolution . |