Example sentences of "be [vb pp] be to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If the right to be heard is to be a real right which is worth anything , it must carry with it a right in the accused man to know the case which is made against him . ’ |
| 2 | This includes Schenk , despite her stated belief in the essentially ironic character of wisdom literature ; a belief which seems to imply that the best lesson one can ever be taught is to be cynical ( which might , sadly , be true ) . |
| 3 | Similarly , the description of the conventions regarding the form of language to be used are to be interpreted more as a parody and critique of the rival Academy than as evidence of what members of the Royal Society really did . |
| 4 | Garland ( 1985a ) notes three themes in their programme : reform , prevention — and extinction ; those who could not be reformed were to be eliminated . |
| 5 | And to be feared is to be somebody . |
| 6 | The area to be distributed was to be set by individual republics . |
| 7 | Already the various structural elements in Nizan 's psychology are becoming apparent : a brooding sense of death nurtured in his formative months and years as an infant and as a child ; a childhood admiration for the values and life-style of his father , a man exuding certainty , conviction and power , a man involved in the practical problems of everyday existence ; a corresponding indifference for the seemingly hollow existence of his mother preoccupied with family duties , social functions and religious rites ; an implicit recognition that the path to be followed was to be located somewhere in the dynamic working-class origins of his father rather than in the passive middle-class origins of his mother ; a sense of loneliness as a child compensated by a deeply experienced relationship with his father , an idol , the source of knowledge and truth . |
| 8 | To be governed is to be subjected to the regular pressure of an authority operating according to fixed rules . |
| 9 | To be unmasked is to be unspirited as well as undone . |
| 10 | To be Wymanised is to be overcome by a feeling of nausea when an excess of Wyman is forced upon you . |
| 11 | The activities in which citizens are to be engaged are to be far removed from any levers of real political power . |