Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] to [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You need to learn to handle it for at least three minutes if you are to be any good at negotiations . |
| 2 | ‘ As I say , this is supposed to be Top Secret , but you 'd better know if you 're to be any help . |
| 3 | If they are to be more than mere training , then a process of informed reflection has to go on at the same time . |
| 4 | Well it 's to be all really that somebody can make a use of these things in n it ? |
| 5 | ‘ It 's to be another expedition that will start then . |
| 6 | Ivan Klima could be called a lyric author , and the notion of what it is to be such an author is examined in My First Loves , whose gentle and deliberate stories read as if they have been grown and stored before being made public . |
| 7 | And , if it is to be some planning , the need , then , is to focus on that approach which will best produce the results desired . |
| 8 | A sharp kitchen knife can not be made absolutely safe if it is to be any use as a kitchen knife . |
| 9 | If it is to be more than a symbolic marker of the moment when North and South decided in principle to work together for mutual survival , a number of decisions on how to administer it will have to be made . |
| 10 | Barbara Conroy , in her book on library staff development discusses evaluation in terms of how far stated objectives have been achieved , and emphasizes that although evaluation requires careful identification of what is being evaluated and why , to decide the ‘ how , when and where ’ , of evaluation if it is to be more than ‘ just a way of channelling impressionistic information into a required report form ’ , that it is not a highly ‘ esoteric ’ activity , necessarily involving ‘ complex research methodology ’ . |
| 11 | Any future attempt to end our oppression or to re-draw the boundaries will , if it is to be more than tokenistic , have to touch on the question of how we learn our sexuality — or , as some of us see it , how we experience heterosexist socialization . |
| 12 | Be this as it may , the constitutional authorities who support the introduction of a Bill of Rights to limit Parliament , government , and the state , nevertheless recognise that it calls for a fundamental constitutional change if it is to be more than just a pious declaration of good intent . |
| 13 | Within his own country , he is not so much a Leviathan as a Gulliver figure hemmed in and tied down by a complex network of restraints that must be thrown off if he is to be more than a helpless giant in the White House . |
| 14 | It was to be many years before South Africa could support full-time professional dance companies . |
| 15 | We had another seven years of rationing to come , though we did n't know it , and it was to be many years before things returned to normal , but the war was over . |
| 16 | It was to be many months before the new tsar accepted defeat in the Crimean War . |
| 17 | It was to be many years later that I learned of the strictures Tata had accepted once he had proposed marriage to my mother , a Roman Catholic . |
| 18 | This chain of events led to British support of NATO becoming the basis of her Second Pillar of grand strategy , but it was to be another four years , and under Churchill 's last Administration , before it was finally set in concrete with the extension of the Brussels Treaty in the October 1954 . |
| 19 | It was hardly flattering , with its account of the miserable climate — the vehement cold and the winds — and the forbidding landscape , with many rough mountains ( for it was to be another two centuries before Rousseau was to alert the attention of Europe to the beauty of mountain scenery ) . |
| 20 | In fact , it was to be another two years before the situation changed radically . |
| 21 | It was to be another three months before the war finally ended , on VJ Day . |
| 22 | However , it was to be another fourteen years before the first permanent regional transmitter was opened in Mbeya in 1972 . |
| 23 | A tolerable degree of success resulted from these early attempts at administration on the European continent ; in Ireland , as we know to our cost , it was to be another story . |
| 24 | Mozart , then between 14 and 17 , was still very much under his father 's thumb and it was to be another eight years before he broke free from Salzburg , settled in Vienna and married Constanze Weber . |
| 25 | But it was to be another 20 years before the changes had marked effect . |
| 26 | I suppose if the doctor had got his diagnosis right , then I would have had to go to hospital but it was to be another ten years before I was sent to such a place . |
| 27 | It was to be another twelve months before the inhabitants of the valley , including the people settled here at Halling , were to see again the Roman Armies , with the local menfolk Possibly among the British force opposing them . |
| 28 | It was only nine years since Charles Sturt had returned , starving and almost blind , from discovering the Darling and the Murray Rivers ; it was to be another five years before he ventured towards the centre of Australia in search of that mythical inland sea . |
| 29 | It was to be another seven years before Franklin returned to his first love as commander of the Erebus on his most famous — and fatal — mission to find the legendary north-west passage from the polar seas to the north Pacific ; until then he occupied himself with the social and moral improvement of the colony under his charge . |
| 30 | It was to be this month . |