Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [prep] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his introduction to the published plans of this and some of his other early houses he writes , ‘ Ornaments are to be cautiously introduced ; those ought only to be used that are simple , applicable and characteristic of their situations : they must be designed with regularity and be perfectly distinct in their outlines … |
| 2 | As explained above fifteen new ‘ open farm ’ prisons have been constructed and more of these are essential if the Sandinista prison guide-lines are to be fully put into action . |
| 3 | a sample of 25 students stratified by course ; sample sizes in strata are to be proportionally allocated and a simple random sampling scheme used , |
| 4 | One possible advantage of Walter 's check is that when broken hammer shanks are repaired , the correct lengths of the shanks have to be maintained if the hammers are to be properly checked . |
| 5 | If schools are to be better managed , the making of decisions in the course of managing has to be understood and shared by as many people as possible . |
| 6 | If there are major disagreements as to concepts ( eg as to whether the warranties are to be very detailed or are merely trying to catch material items ) it may be necessary to have a meeting of the principals to resolve the concepts against which the agreement is to be negotiated . |
| 7 | The words were to be simply interpreted ( p202 ) . |
| 8 | At the same time , the main drive units were to be thoroughly overhauled and the existing motor generator sets replaced . |
| 9 | Managers and proprietors soon realized that if halls were to be half full they might as well be totally full and so every ingenious method was used to maximize attendance . |
| 10 | From that time the influences were to be more European than English or colonial . |
| 11 | A widely subscribed single premium life insurance policy ( known as the prima unica ) was suspended because most of the money invested had never been taxed ; insurers were to be legally obliged to disclose the names of policy holders , and primas unicas would in future be subject to withholding taxes . |
| 12 | Their methods were to be essentially agitational — employing lectures , insertions in the daily press , travelling agitators in foreign parts and a campaign of publishing . |
| 13 | Commissioners nominated by the Lords and Commons were to ascertain the proper bounds of the forests by means of local inquiries , the perambulations returned into the Court of Chancery , and all places beyond the certified bounds were to be absolutely free from the Forest law , with the proviso that the owners and occupiers of land left out of the forest were to retain ‘ such rights of common as anciently or accustomably they had enjoyed ’ . |
| 14 | The bishops were to look for exactly these deficiencies ; synods were to be held ; the clergy were to be better educated , responsible and not ignorant . |
| 15 | But while the poor , the mob , the dregs were to be firmly excluded from political life , the developing study of political economy recognized that these same ignorant and brutal multitudes played an indispensable economic role . |
| 16 | Monthly premiums for beneficiaries was to be gradually increased from $28.60 to $46.50 by 1995 . |
| 17 | In the interest of supposed consistency , circumflex accents are to be summarily abolished on all i and u vowels , despite their frequent help in indicating a missing s from a word 's Latin root . |
| 18 | Two outer zones are to be jointly managed by the forestry department and local people , who will be able to plant trees for timber and firewood and harvest fruits and other produce . |
| 19 | If survivors into the ninth and tenth decades of their lives are to be adequately served , it must be at the expense of younger generations . |
| 20 | Some matters were easy to spot , for example , the importance of making provision for pre-nursery children if parents were to be actively involved on the premises . |
| 21 | Some of its effects were to be much condemned . |
| 22 | If all the syndicates were to be fully reserved on a basis on which Names could be confident of not being called for further sums , Chatset estimates that reserves of £1.5bn would have to be increased to £3.5bn . |
| 23 | The most common mistake with these cleaners is to be too heavy-handed , which can faintly score the surface , or to rub blades and spoon bowls in an irregular pattern and therefore cause unsightly marks . |
| 24 | Inspirational leadership has to be followed by mass production and widescale distribution systems if the original ideas are to be successfully marketed . |
| 25 | If the planning and choice possibilities are to be fully utilised then a time-scale that allows them to be fully understood has to be in operation . |
| 26 | Support troops are to be out of both countries by the end of June . |
| 27 | WATER meters are to be compulsorily installed in nearly four million homes over the next 20 years , it was announced yesterday . |
| 28 | If these post-war years were to be so crucial to the formation of the post-war employment structure , economic dislocation provided an atmosphere in which self-preservation was an understandable objective . |
| 29 | If you do not , you may move into a home only to find , three months later , that the road outside your flat is being widened into a motorway , or an uninterrupted view over woodlands is to be rudely interrupted by the erection of a new housing estate . |
| 30 | A : Journalists always make the assumption that to be married for a number of years is to be happily married for those years . |