Example sentences of "be [verb] [conj] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , a contract to sell crops which are growing or to be grown — whether they mature within a year ( e.g. wheat ) or not ( e.g. timber ) — is a contract of sale of goods . |
| 2 | The only exception to this is when the crops are sold along with the land on which they are growing or to be grown . |
| 3 | It is therefore more important to understand the principles on which such lists are based than to be able to negotiate all the niceties of any particular list . |
| 4 | One can speculate that this boy might some day join one of the rebellious students who fight the establishment in an astonishingly infantile way , expecting at the same time not to be punished and to be granted full amnesty for their transgressions , just as a small child would expect from an indulgent parent . |
| 5 | Desert Storm , with its thousands of sorties a day , could have been planned without computers ( the Schlieffen plan launched the first world war with sweat and brainpower , little more ) ; but computers allow the plans to be fine-tuned and to be altered quickly . |
| 6 | Paul is a child with a severe emotional special need , and here poetry breaks into his life and satisfies that need for as long as the poem takes , both to be written and to be reflected on . |
| 7 | This done , it was not long before the advantages of trusts in creating rights in third parties came to be seen and to be put to good use . |
| 8 | Opportunities for teaching occur spontaneously throughout every day , and do not need to be manufactured or to be time consuming . |
| 9 | It has been pointed out that there are biases in the system that make it much easier for some interests to be heard than others , and much easier for modifications to the status quo to be vetoed than to be supported . |
| 10 | Learning to allow emotions to be felt and to be dealt with appropriately in human relationships may be helped by specialised counselling within a treatment centre specialising in addictive disease . |
| 11 | The form should be logged as To be Actioned . |
| 12 | Reconciliation is not an event in the future to be anticipated but to be received now , because it is offered now ( Rom. 5:11 ) . |
| 13 | The contributors are not making the easy assumption that to validate their experience women do not have to put themselves into question ; on the contrary , it must be recognised that to be a feminist theorist may involve some painful and hard-won putting into question of the beliefs and commitments that are the point of departure . |
| 14 | They need to be understood and to be considered and honest . |
| 15 | During that hour the zeks recross the railway line and the road and return to the Zone , once more to be counted and to be searched . |
| 16 | It is very usual in meetings for women to be asked and to be expected by the men present to serve the coffee ! |
| 17 | When the demand price is equal to the supply price , the amount produced has no tendency either to be increased or to be diminished ; it is in equilibrium . |
| 18 | More realistically , the papal Curia thought that when the full ideal was unattainable , it was better to be content with what could be salvaged than to be left empty-handed : the precise opposite of Anselm , who ( as he told Queen Matilda ) would as soon be deprived of everything as of a little — ‘ and I say this not for love of property , but for love of God 's justice ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ to provide the laws under which the object of his charity was to be governed and to be sole judge of the interpretation and application of those laws either by himself or by such person as he should appoint as a visitor … ’ |
| 20 | The estimated building costs amounted to £6,800 which was to be borrowed and to be repaid within twenty-five years . |
| 21 | In the Trust House Forte case the court had to interpret the assumption that premises were available for letting for shopping and retail purposes : the issue was whether the premises were to be taken as available for letting purposes only or whether they could be taken as to be available for letting for any other purpose permitted by the lease . |
| 22 | What I want , would like to see , and I think is in your interest and the public 's interest is actually to , to not just be responding but to be , to be reactive but to be pro-active , and to be going out onto the streets as it were . |
| 23 | People did not go to a hospital to be cured but to be killed or maimed . |
| 24 | For some people the ambition to be liked and to be successful is a contradictory objective . |
| 25 | It may be that friends and relatives who are less affected by the death of the family member , could give some special attention to the children who are wanting to be comforted and to be told what is going on . |
| 26 | So the posts that are to be established and to be filled are exactly as those approved by the Policy Committee . |
| 27 | It 's , it 's , it 's there to be read and to be worked to . |
| 28 | This assent could sometimes be difficult to establish but fortunately Rule 5 allows it to be implied and to be given in advance . |
| 29 | I do not feel able to speculate as to whether or not it will recover sufficiently over the period in which we are dealing as to be again a and situation . |
| 30 | All employers and those responsible for buildings are now required to ensure such safety measures are taken and to be able to demonstrate they have done so . |