Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [be] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day I was called back from my duties of covering the coroner 's and juvenile courts and told that henceforth I was to be the paper 's " walking reporter " tramping the Dales and picking up whatever stories I could find . |
| 2 | BELVILLE : So I am to be exposed in my house by such a sauce-box as you . |
| 3 | So I am to be bought off — like a common harpy ! ’ |
| 4 | Govt. defeated and so I am to be P.M. The load will be heavy and I am so much alone . |
| 5 | It had seemed to her at the time that this was all she was to be allowed of Ace , and so it became the most precious thing in her life . |
| 6 | Only one is to be chosen . |
| 7 | had terminating at Tooting Junction , only one was to be extended through to Mitcham and it would not be practicable for the cars on the other two to change over to trolley operation for such a short distance . |
| 8 | Thenceforward it was to be taken that Parliament had only conferred the decision-making power on the basis that it was to be exercised on the correct legal basis : a misdirection in law in making the decision therefore rendered the decision ultra vires . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps it is to be applied to some kind of child 's toy — a gunpowder-propelled kite ! ’ |
| 10 | So it is to be business as usual . |
| 11 | So it 's to be clear in what you 're saying to be able to explain yourself clearly so it 's about clarity |
| 12 | If so it was to be avoided , for Hugh was no longer a fighting man . |
| 13 | So it was to be expected that this sight should arouse some curiosity , and after putting their heads together the women put down their bowls and kettles and went over to ask the painter who was coming to live there . |
| 14 | Henceforth it was to be seen from time to time on route 16/18 . |
| 15 | The justices were ordered to have this statute read before them in their courts and henceforth it was to be firmly kept and obeyed . |
| 16 | So what is to be done ? |
| 17 | So what is to be done ? |
| 18 | So what is to be done ? |
| 19 | They want to know not only what is to be done , but why . |
| 20 | Often in communication it may be necessary to spell out not only what is to be done but also what is not to be done . |
| 21 | Meanwhile I was to be foisted on my reluctant Aunt Harriet , whom I had only previously met at family gatherings . |
| 22 | Substantial power is devolved to school level by LMS , but the issue of exactly who is to be involved in decision-making must be an area of keen debate for governors and teachers . |
| 23 | Very soon we were to be concerned with matters less peaceful than the conduct of our kitchens . |
| 24 | Soon there were to be further strains on the Anglo-Turkish relationship in Egypt . |
| 25 | In Buckinghamshire four of the five wealthiest lived in Aylesbury , Amersham and Buckingham , and elsewhere they were to be found at places like Bromsgrove and Kidderminster , Worcs. , and Blakeney , Little Walsingham and Great Yarmouth , Norfolk . |
| 26 | Local knowledge matters in these firms , it supports innovation , and thus it is to be fostered . |
| 27 | To the idealist , the whole world is a manifestation of a rational pattern in the mind of its Creator , and thus it is to be expected that natural forms should reveal a harmony and an underlying unity . |
| 28 | Third , a purely training model is inherently mechanistic and conservative : the task to be accomplished is given , assumed ; the training consists of instruction as to how best it is to be accomplished . |
| 29 | WHEN 20 representatives of the South African Cricket Union and the National Sports Congress sit down together in a Johannesburg hotel tonight it is to be hoped that among them is someone with the wisdom of Solomon . |
| 30 | Coenwulf had several brothers and would seem to have been a member of a very powerful kindred , some of whose landed estates were centred on the region of Winchcombe , but none of his forebears had reigned as kings and Alcuin 's observations in a letter to the people of Kent in 797 that scarcely anyone was to be found now of the old stock of kings and the more obscure their origin , the less their courage , could certainly be construed as a slight on Coenwulf . |