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

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1 Equally with a sensation , saying ‘ by ‘ pain ’ I mean that ’ will only achieve the desired effect if we have some means of separating characteristics which are to be relevant from those which are not .
2 Meanwhile , expectations are rising that Sun will soon announce its awaited 45MHz Model 52 and 54 , which are to be dual and quad processor machines , along with perhaps an unanticipated 45MHz uniprocessor ( the Model 51 ? ) and a 50MHz single , dual or quad configuration ( the Model 61 ? ) .
3 Section I of this Act clearly sets out how education is to be administered and identifies the bodies which are to be responsible for the implementation of educational policies .
4 Beyond the V-bombers , which were to be high-altitude , subsonic aircraft with a range of 1,500 nautical miles , the Air Staff envisaged a supersonic successor with greater range and navigational accuracy .
5 This was the first of many long sieges which were to be characteristic of the war .
6 I regard it as important in considering the benefit which is to be subject to taxation that the benefit should be identified .
7 Some of the smaller ones which concentrate very largely on teacher education , which is to be subject to substantial reductions , look particularly vulnerable .
8 The literary work is to define the mould which is to be instrumental in shaping the life 's work .
9 Another is the American way , which is to be fast , polite and cheerful .
10 If we seek a constitutive relation which is to be characteristic of a material but not dependent on its dimensions then the use of stress and displacement follows , for otherwise the behaviour of two differently sized samples of the same material would be seen to be different .
11 ‘ It fails to meet the central question in Scottish politics which is that any change which is to be meaningful must involve the transfer of political and legislative authority from Westminster to a parliament elected in Scotland by Scots .
12 The treaty of Kutchuk-Kainardji was drawn up in 1774 in both Russian and Turkish versions but with a master copy , which was to be authoritative in case of dispute , in Italian .
13 Her formal education , after a brief period in Islington , was in a school in Heidelberg where , as well as developing her musical talents , she acquired a facility in languages which was to be useful in her later career .
14 For Mailer , Lawrence 's greatness lies in part in his heroic struggle against his destiny , which was to be homosexual : ‘ he had become a man by an act of will , he was bone and blood of the classic family stuff out of which homosexuals are made , he had lifted himself out of his natural destiny which was probably to have the sexual life of a woman ’ ( p. 154 ) .
15 [ Article 22 concerned ratification of the treaty which was to be valid for 20 years .
16 IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’
17 He was to visit units of all the three divisions in the Corps area , each of which was to be concerned with the repatriations .
18 Thus the hobelar , a form of light horseman , came to provide the mobile and versatile force which was to be characteristic of so much war on the Anglo-Scottish border in the early fourteenth century .
19 Elected to the representative board ( 1879 ) which was to be responsible for the foundation of the British Dental Association , he was subsequently appointed to the first editorial committee of the Journal of the BDA , and was BDA president in 1884 .
20 These were the golden years of the secondary modern school — a school which was to be free , so it was thought , from the cramping effects of competitive examination .
21 ‘ You 're doing great — what 's to be nervous about , sitting in an underground room with nobody listening to you , eh ? ’
22 This was a prelude to his speech on 21 February 1957 when he proclaimed his konsepsi ( conception ) of what was to be Guided Democracy .
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