Example sentences of "it [be] to [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He points out that petrol is now very cheap : if , in real terms , it were to be the equivalent price of a decade ago it would cost over £4 a gallon . |
| 2 | It 's to be the usual passive wanks from now on . |
| 3 | Eric Abbott prophesied falsely , ‘ It is to be the great work of your life ’ . |
| 4 | this apparently buys an exhibition gallery utterly inadequate to host even a moderately-sized show ; a restaurant not large enough to serve both staff and members and be an income-generating venue for the public ; a bookshop that needs twice as much space if it is to be the premier one in England ; library and drawings storage that will mean costly out-housing as soon as the new facility is opened ; and finally — my own personal quibble — a drawings collection that will have lost its allure as a magnet for donor support . |
| 5 | Serve warm , cut into neat squares for tapas , or quarters if it is to be the centrepiece of the meal . |
| 6 | Burnard and Chapman go further-than this definition , by recommending that knowledge should be research based and up to date if it is to be the best for accountability in practice . |
| 7 | The party needs a shake-out , if it is to be the driving-force on the compassionate side of the new politics . |
| 8 | It is to be the new pont de Solférino , replacing the temporary structure in place since the original was demolished in the early Sixties . |
| 9 | The rational agent can then calculate the expected utility of each action by assigning a ‘ utility ’ ( a quotient of happiness , so to speak ) to each consequence and discounting it for how likely or unlikely it is to be the actual consequence . |
| 10 | On the 13th , MacDonald had noted in his diary that Cabinet-making looked ‘ as if it is to be the most horrible job of my life . |
| 11 | The key to the repressive discipline advocated in this manual of behaviour is that it is to be the means by which man is liberated from all that thwarts his true nature , just as the dancer can only use his body expressively if he trains his muscles : " those move easiest who have learnt to dance " . |
| 12 | I knew when I first thought of it , he wrote , when I first set it up , that it was to be the final piece . |
| 13 | I no longer cared about seeing the film , though it was to be the last with my great hero Sean Connery . |
| 14 | It was to be the happiest year of his career — the year when BRM finally came good and won the world championship with Graham Hill . |
| 15 | It was to be the election in which the SNP made a breakthrough , the election that made Scotland a ‘ Tory-free zone ’ and the case for constitutional change unanswerable . |
| 16 | It was to be the stumbling block ; for if the Emperor abandoned the Clauses he would antagonize Britain , while so long as they remained , Russia would not respond to his requests for an alliance . |
| 17 | It was to be the only home he ever owned in Palestine . |
| 18 | It was an insignificant moment , no one there would have thought that it was to be the first movement in such a great drama , not only for them but also for those watching . |
| 19 | However , it was to be the Elsden 's second import which was to have the most effect on the breed . |
| 20 | But if it was to be the first triumphant scream of Morrissey 's revenge , then it was certainly a just reward for Johnny Marr . |
| 21 | Later , as his family came into the world , it was to be the dining-room and a new surgery was built at the side of the house , but when Mrs Curdle first knew him , the doctor and his wife dined in the sunny little room at the back of the house , conveniently near to the kitchen . |
| 22 | In essence , it was to be the War Cabinet of 1940 to 1945 by another means . |
| 23 | It was to be the last triumph Chapman was to see at Elland Road , for in the summer of 1916 he took a managerial job at a munitions factory at Barnbow , near Leeds . |
| 24 | America was conceived in vision as one of the greatest dreams of men ; it was to be the first nation ever to escape from oppression and the freed spirit would bring forth a splendid nation . |
| 25 | It was to be the golden rule that no Tiller would have a hint of scandal about her : a difficult task for the pretty vivacious girls from the poor streets of Moss Side . |
| 26 | It was to be the source of seemingly endless conflict for centuries to come , and it is still the greatest of all impediments to human progress . |
| 27 | In the late tenth and eleventh centuries a marked revival of agriculture and country life in Lombardy had ushered in the urban renaissance in its heartland ; for it was to be the Lombard cities above all which lured the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa to Italy in the 1150s and 1160s , and whose almost innumerable walls baffled his armies in the long war of the Lombard League . |
| 28 | It was to be the key . |
| 29 | Sadly , it was to be the final port of call on my Latin American tour before returning to Liverpool 's Albert Dock studios — but what a country to end in ! |
| 30 | We made the excursion with ‘ the children ’ that had become traditional ; perhaps it was the most beautiful , and it was to be the last . |