Example sentences of "[det] [be] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In short , those who propose a deprivation weighting must decide whether this is to be additional to or a substitute for mortality .
2 We must , therefore , use such instances empirically to help to establish what the internal linguistic norms of the community actually are , and to do this is to be accountable to the data in quite a strong sense .
3 The answer to this is to be patient and realize that you are changing the habits of a lifetime .
4 The Inland Revenue will place a value on the future worth of an earnout agreement and , where this is to be satisfied in cash , capital gains tax may again become payable before the earnout payment is received .
5 To imagine this is to be aware that the aggressive term which I have applied to Amis 's novelistic method , ‘ ventriloquism ’ , has the drawback of suggesting that when an author throws his voice , the character who receives it will necessarily be found to be inanimate , a dummy .
6 Now the purpose of therefore of this training course and any any training course is to do this is to be able to handle the arousal and increase your level of performance and even get the peak to move that way so for any level of arousal you 're getting better performance but you 're also able to handle a bit more butterflies a bit more of the nerves in order to perform effectively , and apart from a training course like this how do you achieve that ?
7 I remember thinking that this was to be alive .
8 It was to start on the night of 17 November , and L Detachment 's role in this was to be small but potentially crucial .
9 And this was to be poor Mary 's destiny .
10 This was to be characteristic of the Béarnais nobility throughout the Hundred Years War .
11 This was to be Active Training .
12 On these are to be inscribed words reminiscent of the Ten Commandments , beginning with a new commandment not to make ‘ molten gods ’ ( 34.1–28 ) .
13 For many fans the wearing of Dr Marten boots , and other ‘ hard ’ gear , is likely to have that role , that is to be symbolic rather than instrumental .
14 Not to know that is to be ignorant of the whole point of the affirmation .
15 That 's to be expected is n't it ?
16 In the event , neither was to be forthcoming .
17 The full force of teachers ' professionalism will need to be put behind the national curriculum and assessment if both are to be beneficial to pupil and other ‘ customers ’ of the education service .
18 I tell you , after a long life of many escapes , many dramas which might have been tragedies , what I want and would value most is to be free to choose as much of my life as is given to me — to live it by my own lights , Mary , to do , insofar as God wills it , what I want to do to the very hilt and limit . ’
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