Example sentences of "be [adj] was to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted to be safe , and the only way she knew how to be safe was to be rich . ’ |
| 2 | To be new was to be critical . |
| 3 | In private Michael still had to keep his end up against attacks , that to be religious was to be a fool , though less frequently now because Frank travelled abroad and was away much of the time . |
| 4 | Dada and Aunt Tossie talked to each other with scarcely a pause , showing a concern for Maman 's silence as though to be silent was to be sick . |
| 5 | At every stage of the arms race the only point in being tall was to be relatively taller than neighbouring trees . |
| 6 | The Corn Is Green was to be done on the new medium of television in 1946 and somehow Philip wangled leave of absence from the RAF for Richard who yet again played Morgan Evans and yet again was pulled back from the gypsy snares of freewheeling pleasure to the source and the purpose of it all . |
| 7 | Whether the act was dangerous was to be judged by what the reasonable person would have appreciated . |
| 8 | The R.S.F. was equally adamant and for a while , the management held out the driver was responsible was to be reprimanded . |
| 9 | Because of the changed security situation and that type of er conflict not being envisaged in the same way now , what we felt was important was to be able to operate er apart from main operating bases , but also from sort of general purpose erm strips , flying clubs and those type of smaller airfields and therefore rather than looking at the damaged runway situation , we looked at the smaller strips and took a length that we could sensibly operate from erm and took that as the yardstick but clearly notwithstanding that , there is the prospect of damaged runways and therefore the slight relaxation would also apply to damaged runways but perhaps damaged to a lesser extent . |