Example sentences of "of [adj] be to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the three DHSS manuals were not to be a permanent part of the system so only one copy of each was to be supplied per bureau . |
| 2 | The houses were to be built at a pre-arranged cost and the architectural detail of each was to be carefully considered . |
| 3 | The evidence in support of that is to be found in the evidence of Helen Taylor . |
| 4 | Proof of that was to be found in the returns to Parliament during 1826 and 1827 which showed that out of sixty-seven executions ordered against goods only forty produced payment . |
| 5 | The physical mark of this is to be seen in the indentation between the upper lip and the nose . |
| 6 | Eloquent testimony of this is to be found in John Gay 's magnificent photographs of London terminals , depicting , for instance , the forest of columns , arches , and metallic tracery supporting the roof of Liverpool Street Station and the perfect form and line of Brunel 's ‘ all interior , all roofed-in ’ Paddington , achievements that could leave only the most die-hard curmudgeon unmoved . |
| 7 | The earliest extant account of this is to be found in the Works and Days of Hesiod ( c.700 BC ) , who sought to account thereby for man 's present condition and , in particular , for his need to work . |
| 8 | An example of this is to be seen in a developing educational programme . |
| 9 | The explanation of this is to be found in the matters propounded in Chapter One , that is , that members of the human race have a deeply felt need for a ‘ god ’ and a religion , and as almost everybody is reared within a family or group with some kind of religious background , each has at least a lingering allegiance to some form of established religion . |
| 10 | The proof of this is to be found in the calendar of saints ' days for the Canterbury community which he had so offensively purged . |
| 11 | Perhaps the most interesting example of this is to be found in the Manor House garden , where a large section was unearthed and found to be well preserved . |
| 12 | A further illustration of this is to be found in the conventions governing spelling . |
| 13 | Three quarters of this is to be spent on improving housing , water supplies , sewage , roads , and communication networks to Aboriginal communities . |
| 14 | An example of this is to be found in Re Pergamon Press Ltd . |
| 15 | £ [ ] million of this is to be released immediately and the balance of £ [ ] million will be held in escrow and released following agreement of the completion accounts . |
| 16 | An illustration of this is to be found in Surinam on the Caribbean coast of South America . |
| 17 | Confirmation of this was to be found in Geoff 's continued success in the full England international side when he appeared in Graham Taylor 's starting line-up for both the post-season matches at Wembley and then distinguished himself in all four games on the Australasian tour . |
| 18 | Nothing of this was to be found in mainstream pre-conciliar Roman ecclesiology ( though it is to be found in 1950s books representative of the ‘ new theology ’ by scholars like de Lubac and Congar , writers under much official suspicion at the time ) . |
| 19 | One-half of this was to be sold by auction , and the profits above the official price of $ 42.2 an ounce were then to be used to promote aid to the less developed countries , whereas the other half was to be sold back to members at the prevailing official price . |
| 20 | F7,000 million of this was to be repaid over six years ( with a three-year grace period ) , while the remainder was to be paid back by the end of 1989 . |
| 21 | The government 's plan was to cut a 70m wide swathe through the forest for a major highway and that 100km both sides of this was to be developed . |
| 22 | Some of these were to be offered as votives in the temple 's sanctuaries : others entered a trading network which might take them to the farthest ends of the island or overseas . |
| 23 | The NDP captured 348 out of the total of 444 elective seats in the Assembly , although 93 of these were to be occupied by candidates who had distanced themselves from the leadership . |
| 24 | In making this choice zero rates of change of current are to be preferred , as they occur at rotor positions which are almost independent of instantaneous stepping rate . |
| 25 | Most important of all was to be the church , costing £10,000 , which was to dominate the whole . |
| 26 | The consequences of Lloyd George 's containment of pacifism in the early months of 1918 were to be inscribed in the history of Europe over succeeding decades — down to 1945 if not beyond . |
| 27 | The provisions which replace those contained in section 10(3) of the Act of 1957 are to be found in section 193 of and Schedule 10 to the Housing Act 1985 . |
| 28 | These final decades before the catastrophe of 1914 were to be the ‘ Indian summer ’ , the belle époque of bourgeois life , retrospectively lamented by its survivors . |
| 29 | Whether this ebullient novel of 1923 is to be considered as a parody or just as a light-hearted analogue of The Prisoner of Zenda , the resemblances are too close to be mere coincidence . |
| 30 | The Forest Charter of 1217 and the Forest Ordinance of 1306 were to be strictly observed . |