Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [coord] to be " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Opportunities for teaching occur spontaneously throughout every day , and do not need to be manufactured or to be time consuming .
6 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 .
7 Reconciliation is not an event in the future to be anticipated but to be received now , because it is offered now ( Rom. 5:11 ) .
8 They need to be understood and to be considered and honest .
9 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 .
10 It is very usual in meetings for women to be asked and to be expected by the men present to serve the coffee !
11 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 .
12 ‘ 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 … ’
13 The estimated building costs amounted to £6,800 which was to be borrowed and to be repaid within twenty-five years .
14 People did not go to a hospital to be cured but to be killed or maimed .
15 For some people the ambition to be liked and to be successful is a contradictory objective .
16 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 .
17 So the posts that are to be established and to be filled are exactly as those approved by the Policy Committee .
18 It 's , it 's , it 's there to be read and to be worked to .
19 This assent could sometimes be difficult to establish but fortunately Rule 5 allows it to be implied and to be given in advance .
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