Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [ex0] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year there were to be no festivities , however meagre . |
| 2 | This time there is to be no law or sanctions . |
| 3 | And yet , if we look for signs of the biblical revival that the Council wanted to awaken , in many ways and in many parts of the Catholic world the answer is indeed ‘ yes ’ , and all the more so if we remember how much leeway there was to be made up in knowledge and use of the Bible by Catholics . |
| 4 | However , despite the publicity given to the more extravagant claims about the impact of new technology on the level of unemployment , and the popular notion that the silicon chip is a job destroyer , a survey , published in 1979 , of some 400 documents on the effect of the new information technologies on employment showed ‘ how little foundation there is to existing studies , half of which are by pessimists ( often with a trade union background ) and the other half by optimists ( who tend to be on the employers ’ side ) ’ ( Institute for Research on Public Policy 1979 ) . |
| 5 | In that development there was to be found during the twenty years of his chairmanship no place for industrial democracy such as the admission of self-governing producers ' co-operatives would have admitted . |
| 6 | ‘ Generally , the more snow , the less danger there is to skiers . |
| 7 | At each stage there was to be a reshuffle of cars in depôts , so that the worst cars in the fleet were scrapped first and the better cars from a depôt closing were moved to another one . |