Example sentences of "our [noun sg] [be] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God closes some doors and opens others ; our responsibility is to be sensitive to his leading , and to follow through the doors when they open . |
| 2 | As you are aware we will not be receiving all of the Grant that we have applied for this year and have been told by the Sports Council that our Grant is to be reduced over the next 3 years and then cease . |
| 3 | But ‘ all these things are a matter of judgement , ’ thinks David Livermore , IBM 's director in charge of the environment , ‘ and our intention is to be in the forefront . ’ |
| 4 | So , for the purpose of this exercise our musician is to be a composer/arranger requiring quality printed output and , to make the project more challenging , our musician will take advantage of the sound producing and manipulation capabilities of the PC and use the flexibility of MIDI input . |
| 5 | Since we shall have to be content with inexact knowledge we will not insist that our electron is to be found at a definite point but simply require that it is localised within an interval of space of length Ax . |
| 6 | Our fate is to be even more horrible than to be frogmarched out of Downing street . |
| 7 | Furthermore , a common provision in such agreements is that all documents , copies of documents and extracts of documents obtained during the course of our work are to be returned if the transaction does not proceed . |
| 8 | Furthermore , a common provision in such agreements is that all documents , copies of documents and extracts of documents obtained during the course of our work are to be returned if the transaction does not proceed . |
| 9 | Our danger is to be beguiled by our own fiction into imagining otherwise . |
| 10 | Our aim is to be a leading supplier in the plastic packaging markets in which we choose to operate , and develop sustainable competitive advantages in those markets . |
| 11 | Our aim was to be an equal partner in enhancing student experiences . |
| 12 | Our job is to be dominated by and subject to that and to be a mouthpiece for Jesus again to speak through us to his people . ’ |
| 13 | And if our drama is to be at all dramatic we 'll need to put those people in a difficult situation , one which confronts them with choices . |
| 14 | Well , our strategy is to be a concentrated conglomerate . |
| 15 | Above all , ’ he went on , ‘ our royalty is to be reverenced , and if you begin to poke about it , you can not reverence it … |
| 16 | I believe therefore that our music is to be recognized by its melodies , and that it is highly important that they be distinctive , with clear-cut , decisive shapes . |
| 17 | Our approach is to be one of evolution rather than revolution . |
| 18 | The engagement jewellery of our bride was to be a set of emeralds . |
| 19 | It is certainly not enough to say that the former position shows " attribution " and the latter " predication " ; one must go on to say what these terms of one 's theory mean , and if our account is to be genuinely explanatory , we must do so in ways which can be related to concepts and phenomena which stand outside our initial theory . |
| 20 | Do they understand that for years to come , our treasure is to be poured into maintaining round-the-clock , full-alert , protection of the airstrip works , at a time when we are seriously discussing the future of student loans , and putting the millstone of debt round the necks of our students in higher education ? |
| 21 | We need to ensure that we take the opportunity to look hard enough at the decisions which are to b er , to be made , to reassess how our training is to be provided . |
| 22 | As we began to climb there could be no doubt that our destination was to be some place in the hills . |
| 23 | Our destination was to be Cliff College in the Peat District , where we would spend the next few days . |
| 24 | We had been chosen to present one of ten travel reports and our destination was to be Amsterdam . |
| 25 | ‘ Our goal is to be in the top five , ’ Voss states confidently . |
| 26 | This does not necessarily mean that a diversity of penal aims is ruled out , but each of the different aims must be justified by the same general philosophy if our position is to be coherent . |
| 27 | To use the jargon , federalism means extending the competence of the Euro-institutions to defence , foreign , immigration and asylum , social , and economic policies — the bread and butter issues of our politics are to be removed from this Parliament and transferred to Brussels . |
| 28 | Emphasis on the firm ( which in our view is to be seen as a combination of entrepreneur and resource owner ) also led to a failure to recognize the significance of pure resource ownership in securing monopoly positions in production . |