Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [be] to [be] " in BNC.

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1 The young Edward Fitzgerald , who became a sceptic , wrote to his friend Thackeray , ‘ I think the evidence for them is to be doubted .
2 The unifying factor between them was to be dynastic and personal .
3 But much more important for me was to be exposed to the experience of people working with the poor in the Third World whose suffering results from debt .
4 ‘ In return for a cessation of violence , amnesties have been granted to the Furs and a number of them are to be co-opted onto the Government .
5 Some of them are to be found in Checkmate when the Red Pawns pick their way from square to square , whilst their Queen guides her King to his throne with tender steps .
6 The ‘ Executive ’ formulates policies , procures the passing of the necessary laws , puts the policies into effect and even , on occasion , determines the mode , if any , in which disputes arising out of them are to be determined .
7 Few of them are to be found in the top echelons of racing .
8 In such circumstances it is absolutely necessary that the school should have an admissions policy of some kind in order to select from all those who have expressed such preference which of them are to be accepted and which rejected .
9 Most of them are to be found in a narrow range of occupations and over half are office or secretarial workers [ see Table 2.5 ] .
10 Most of them are to be found in southern and Mediterranean Europe , an area in terms of its society and institutions closer to France than to Prussia or Russia .
11 If a taxpayer has two residences he can elect which of them is to be treated as his main residence ( s222(5) ) for the purpose of the exemption and notwithstanding the terms of the above concession the husband can avoid difficulty if he makes a positive election .
12 If we count cities of over 500,000 inhabitants as ‘ big ’ , fourteen out of twenty-three of them were to be found in five countries , the United Kingdom ( 6 ) , Germany ( 3 ) , France ( 3 ) , Belgium ( 1 ) and Holland ( 1 ) .
13 In addition the DHSS would not agree to supply updates free of charge , so after much discussion three DHSS manuals were chosen but none of them was to be updated .
14 The law requires that an adult patient who is mentally and physically capable of exercising a choice must consent if medical treatment of him is to be lawful , although the consent need not be in writing and may sometimes be inferred from the patient 's conduct in the context of the surrounding circumstances .
15 The BBC is worried that this is a veiled hint that parts of it are to be commercialised and that cuts will make investigative programmes such as Panorama — which has occasionally angered the Government — impossible to make .
16 The very first indications of it are to be seen in the helplessness of a baby .
17 This returns again and again in a variety of contexts , but the theological heart of it is to be found in the development of a theology of the Church as a communion of ‘ churches ’ .
18 And there 's the question of how much of it is to be real life , for those in it , and how much will have to be some kind of fiction , or simulation , where the risks are too great or the technologies not yet available .
19 Film had always played an important part in the admiral 's career ( he had founded the Royal Naval Film Corporation ) , and rather than write his autobiography , he had recorded , with John Terraine as questioner , some seven hours of reflection on his life and personal relationships , and had left instructions that none of it was to be shown publicly until after his death .
20 The Paris to Rouen railway was being extended to Le Havre , and the line cut straight through Dr Flaubert 's land ; part of it was to be compulsorily purchased .
21 The only way to make sure your bra is exactly right for you is to be professionally fitted in a department store or specialist underwear shop .
22 Beneath them were to be the fascist Legions , the militant branch of the League who were divided into active and passive sections of members .
23 Disputes under them are to be referred to arbitration , where contracts made on a particular exchange are in issue , and otherwise to the English courts .
24 To start with it is to be stored until other jobs are out of the way .
25 Churches long sealed with all their histories in them were to be opened to me this day .
26 The substance of his approach to the application before him is to be found in the following passages from his judgment :
27 ( 2 ) The statement of accounts shall comply with any directions given by the Secretary of State with the approval of the Treasury as to — ( a ) the information to be contained in it ; ( b ) the manner in which the information contained in it is to be presented ; or ( c ) the methods and principles according to which the statement is to be prepared , and shall contain such additional information as the Secretary of State may with the approval of the Treasury require to be provided for the information of Parliament .
28 b ) the manner in which the information contained in it is to be presented , or
29 –here property has been settled on terms which provide for one or more beneficiaries to become entitled to an interest in possession in it on or before a specified age which does not exceed twenty-five but meantime no such interest in possession subsists and the income so far as not applied for maintenance education or benefit of any beneficiary is to be accumulated , neither a payment made out of the property nor the arising to a beneficiary of an interest in possession in it is to be treated as a chargeable transfer .
30 The new city is to be built as a film set and life in it is to be broadcast as a TV spectacle .
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