Example sentences of "[noun sg] [am/are] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier research has shown that if projects of this kind are to be successful , management needs to make organisational changes , as well as technical ones . |
| 2 | PLANS for one of the most ambitious civil engineering projects envisaged for the North West are to be left gathering dust . |
| 3 | PLANS for one of the most ambitious civil engineering projects envisaged for the North West are to be left gathering dust . |
| 4 | The examples are not always abstract ballets , because the three aspects described above are applicable to most choreography if music and dance are to be equal partners in a ballet . |
| 5 | The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole , and also no attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul , and therefore if the head and body are to be well you must begin by curing the mind : that is the first thing … . |
| 6 | However , Goody 's claims for the ‘ consequences ’ of literacy are couched in such a way that they do require it : he imposes upon himself the obligation to establish that the Greeks really did achieve the distinction of ‘ myth ’ from ‘ history ’ if his claims for literacy are to be credible . |
| 7 | The second and third quarters of the night are to be devoted to sleep . |
| 8 | Such quantities can not be ignored if measures of the program 's performance are to be valid . |
| 9 | First , if holism and individualism are to be distinct , causation and autonomy must be mutually exclusive categories : if the autonomous character of action is to stand in the way of the truth of determinism , actions can not at the same time be caused . |
| 10 | If there is , and if both music and commentary are to be pre-recorded onto parallel tracks of a cued tape , the stop-start transfer routine can not be used : the sound tape has to be run non-stop , and we are then back with problems of tape-to-tape synchronisation . |