Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [be] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way to bring figures like this alive is to be crude and personalize them . |
| 2 | If this latter is to be the ultimate model , with the student 's role being somewhere between that of a battery hen and a laboratory rat , then surely most teachers would wish to have no part in its evolution . |
| 3 | If the energies of these young are to be directed along constructive lines , the proposed new political formation is undoubtedly the best way to achieve it . |
| 4 | And if we 're offering you your passage home , you and the children , and help in finding your feet once you get there , and a good convent school for the girls , so that they can go straight on with the nuns and wo n't really notice any difference , well , all that 's to be regarded as a loan , which we 're very glad to offer you for an extended period , in the hopes of getting you back among caring people . " |
| 5 | All that is to be hoped is that individual fellows of the society will use this report to press , alongside others less privileged , for an openness , a democracy that hardly distinguishes the Royal Society itself . |
| 6 | ‘ You say we have as yet only heard the half — and the worse half of all that is to be told ? |
| 7 | All this is to be found even in the lower classes . |
| 8 | At the same time , the curriculum through which all this was to be achieved remained remarkably unexplored and neglected ; and in many respects this in itself was a comment on the nature of the reformers ' aims and aspirations . |
| 9 | A theoretical stress upon biblical study , an active laity , the reunion of Christians , and a positive commitment to the service of the world in its cultural , social and economic needs , coupled with an absence of guidance as to how all this was to be done and how far one could go in these various directions , led both to a state of real popular enthusiasm but also , almost inevitably , to tension and conflict . |
| 10 | All this was to be achieved by heading straight for Kuwait City and pinning down the Iraqis there ; and then by moving from the west in substantial force , enveloping and destroying Iraq 's elite reserve , the Republican Guard , with its T-72 tanks , described by French sources as ‘ the priority target . |
| 11 | The first three students from our new training course took the Medau Teachers ' Examination on 23rd November 1985 and all three are to be congratulated for passing with ‘ flying colours ’ . |
| 12 | Many observers have argued that some form of planning is therefore essential if the optimum outcome for all concerned is to be achieved , but carefully administered recreational facilities in the countryside will not be sufficient on their own . |
| 13 | Is it really so difficult for a technologically innovative and ingenious society such as ours to support seventeen in every thousand , even if all seventeen were to be in need of continuous personal care ( as clearly they will not be ) ? |
| 14 | Very little information is given in the about the life of Fahreddin Acemi , and very little more is to be found in the other biographical sources . |