Example sentences of "[pers pn] are to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | You know Victor and I are to be married . |
2 | ‘ For your information , Lucy and I are to be married — as soon as possible . ’ |
3 | ‘ Lucy and I are to be married . ’ |
4 | Making miniatures from pressed flowers could really be an entire book in itself , as you need different and very particular skills if you are to be successful . |
5 | ‘ What a bloodthirsty little creature you are to be sure ! ’ said Biff , with a hint of admiration . |
6 | ‘ Then what an unfeeling little brute you are to be sure . |
7 | In the next chapter you will find details of exercises in breathing , relaxation , basic meditation and visualisation — all of which are vital If you are to be healthy in a truly holistic way . |
8 | If you are to be awkward then my mother will not know where she stands for a good deal of time . ’ |
9 | ‘ You had best come up on deck if you are to be sick . |
10 | This first kite has to work if you are to be satisfied , so our first tip is for you to be conservative , and select one of the tried and tested shapes that give least trouble . |
11 | ‘ We both saw her put in the taxi , if we are to be accurate . ’ |
12 | The motivation must be right if we are to be effective in the Lord 's service . |
13 | I need that from Bobby and the rest of the side if we are to be successful , ’ says newly-appointed Larder . |
14 | If we are to be successful , we must have Europeanwide agreement . |
15 | ( To be precise , there are four Humean conditions to satisfy , if we are to be sure that c caused e on some occasion , namely : c preceded e ; there was no intermediate event ; events like c are always followed by events like e in those conditions ; and we are in the habit of expecting the sequence . ) |
16 | We are to be responsible stewards of what God has given us . |
17 | Then we are to be formal , are we ! |
18 | Now when we open the scriptures we find clear commands , that th that there are , when we come to Jesus and accept him as our saviour then we are to obey him and we are to be baptized ! |
19 | But if we are to be able to talk to our children about this at all , then we must have some understanding of the choices and risks they face . |
20 | It will be needed , above all , if we are to be able to read the historical record . |
21 | The more distant one of those later groups is , the more likely we are to be able to construct a counter-example ; as is revealed in our own example where = you are a brain in a vat ; |
22 | The more highly constrained and ritualised the genre , the more likely we are to be able to identify norms . |
23 | With regard to " temporality " ( in the sense in which this concept was used above ) , this can not be regarded as a sufficient condition of particularity so long as it is not shown that temporality alone ( in the indicated sense ) ensures numerical identity of particulars ; and if we are to be able to justifiably claim that it is a necessary condition of particularity , we must first show that there can be no extra-temporal particulars . " |
24 | For evidently we need both reflexive and non-reflexive polyadic predicates , as well as monadic predicates , if we are to be able to describe at all adequately the world around us . |
25 | But , as we saw , this will not work ; for if we are to be able to make significant identifying references to qualities , we need a distinction between qualities and their existentially unique instances , and this raises the problem of determining the precise ontological status of such instances : i.e. what such instances are , and how they can be identified and distinguished from each other . |
26 | If we are to be able to select the most appropriate selling opportunities , the information on our database must be as comprehensive as possible . |
27 | We shall now see that in order to account for changes in the modern world this evolutionary background of the ego and superego is by no means irrelevant ; on the contrary , we must take it very seriously if we are to be able to understand what is going on around us . |
28 | In turn , if we are to be able to pay for these commodities , we must export . |
29 | Yet if we are to be realistic in our starting-point we must accept that the relationships which give rise to nuclear catastrophe are likely to be relationships between sovereign states , each able to possess and deploy armed force for their own interests . |
30 | The tuners are Jackson-stamped Gotohs and have proved in the past to be man enough for the job , relegated as they are to being mere anchor points for the strings , taking into account the Floyd Rose licensed tremolo employed here . |