Example sentences of "[be] to [be] an [adj] " in BNC.

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1 If such a strategy were to be an effective one — and the jury is still out , although it seems a promising idea — then reintegrative shaming would be a valuable method of reforming offenders , which ( as we have said ) is a valid reductivist aim to be pursued within a morally defensible penal system .
2 What it is to be an individual subject fluctuates from ideology to ideology .
3 A 22-bay driving range is to be an additional attraction beside the new golf course being built at Hunley Hall , Brotton .
4 With just under six years of office still to run , Mr Ozal presumably calculates that the party needs his popularity much more than he needs the party — particularly if there is to be an early general election to take advantage of an alliance victory in the Gulf war .
5 It was during this time , moving from one company to another , that Haslam learned the true meaning of what it is to be an adaptable manager .
6 ‘ If there is to be an effective Christian response to AIDS we need to support organisations like ACET who are in the front line giving practical care and support . ’
7 Consequently the saturated zone must be constantly flushed by undersaturated water if dissolution is to be an effective mechanism .
8 " Whatever subject or age group you teach , there will be plenty of resources to help you cope with the demands of the National Curriculum , especially now that environmental education is to be an important cross-curricular theme , " says Peter Martin , WWF Senior Education Officer .
9 These include : deadlines ; what documents and resources are available or accessible ; whether the emphasis is to be mainly on fact gathering or on interpretation and proposals ; who is to be consulted ; how much travel time and cost is justified ; whether there is to be an intermediate or informal feedback stage ; how will the final report be presented ; who will have access to it ?
10 If the s69(2) relief is not applicable , it will be essential to have a majority of foreign trustees and for the general administration actually to be carried on ordinarily outside the United Kingdom if the trust is to be an overseas trust for CGT purposes .
11 And then the dark-greens are by no means united in forming a simple statement of what it is to be an out-and-out green .
12 Section 7 provides that a member of a recognised self-regulating organisation is to be an authorised person by virtue of his membership of that organisation .
13 There is to be an offshore safety Bill .
14 Louis Untermeyer , Robert Frost 's correspondent who was to be an influential anthologist , wrote of Poems ( The Freeman , 30 June 1920 ) that ‘ Eliot cares more for his art than he does for his attitudes ’ ; and that ‘ the exaltation which is the very breath of poetry — that combination of tenderness and toughness — is scarcely ever present in Eliot 's lines ’ .
15 His view that war could be justified by the need to find peace , a view which won support from later philosophers , theologians and lawyers , was to be an influential one .
16 I was to be an avenging angel : Justice , putting right what could not be done through the courts .
17 There was to be an additional consultation with the two judges which would take place after the prisoner had served three years of his sentence , so that the Secretary of State could receive at that stage their advice on the total period which should be served to satisfy the requirements of retribution and deterrence .
18 Five gallons of wine was to be levied on every half acre of land , and there was to be an additional tax on manpower .
19 There was to be an estimated crowd of one thousand people .
20 The Home Ownership and Opportunity for People Everywhere ( Hope ) programme was set to be expanded , but overall the proposed expenditure on " choice " was to be an estimated $16,000 million in fiscal 1992 , approximately $3,700 million less than in the current fiscal year .
21 Finally , in the Annex there are set out a number of terms which , according to the previous draft of art 3(3) , was to be an indicative list of terms which may be regarded as unfair .
22 Helen never intended her As It Was to be an accurate account of their young lives , and there are no letters because they met often .
23 Now it would maybe not be appropriate if there was to be an alternative government bill that would deal with these type of matters er in front of us and please to say that when I read out the list of sponsors , it 'll be shown there are people from all parties , or all parties in Britain in this house , who are true democrats .
24 Our aim was to be an equal partner in enhancing student experiences .
25 What convinced him that it was nonetheless a worthwhile project was , firstly , that it was to be an international collaborative effort between the Réunion des Musées Nationaux in Paris , the Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin and the FIAT group and , secondly , that there was scope to examine an unexplored area : the rediscovery of the Etruscans and their influence on recent European culture .
26 But their view on how this should be achieved was quite different : correction was to be an applied science whose goal , where feasible , was to be the rehabilitation of individual offenders ( where it was not feasible , segregation or elimination , for the protection of society , was to suffice ) .
27 In the event , there was to be an early and continuous downpour .
28 ‘ When , in answer to his assumption that there was to be an early wedding , I asked what was going round the grapevine now , he told me it was pure speculation on his part , stemming from the fact that you 'd just handed in your resignation . ’
29 After this , if there was to be an after , how could she live knowing what he might be up to , and the tight corners he could be getting into .
30 The $24,000,000 production was to be an unmitigated disaster and was to bring Twentieth Century-Fox close to bankruptcy when it found out that the heyday of the film musical was past .
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