Example sentences of "be to be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you 're to try and fill her shoes , which I very much doubt you 'll ever do , but if you 're to be even half the woman that she was , may God have mercy on her , then you 'll need all the reminding I can give you . ’ |
| 2 | It 's all one to me but time 's getting on and your Auntie 'll want you back early if you 're to be up at crack of dawn in the morning . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Well , David , we 'd better be off if we 're to be back in time for this afternoon 's session . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm to be slightly too clever , the hare to your tortoise , so that you can plod past me half-way round the course and make me look a fool . ’ |
| 5 | Had be to be up at quarter to eight . |
| 6 | The entire carboxy terminal half of the proteins , from aa 400 to the end , is predicted to be to be very hydrophilic ( 22 , 30 ) . |
| 7 | If the mind is so conceived that its relation to the world can only be a causal one , then to perceive something must be to be causally affected by it . |
| 8 | Our response to recession must simply be to be more determined , focused and innovative . |
| 9 | right , okay so anyway that erm one 's causing a little bit of concern , I 've got another one scheduled for March which I was going to centre on here where will come along and talk to us about the Editor and the Royal Visit and you know ee ach dear me how glad I am to be away from the Scottish Office |
| 10 | Let me say immediately how glad I am to be here , looking forward with hope and enthusiasm to the task that lies ahead , working alongside many others in the building up of God 's kingdom within the diocese of Middlesbrough . |
| 11 | The initial response of Bishop Crowley immediately after his appointment was ‘ Let me say immediately how glad I am to be here ’ . |
| 12 | It goes almost without saying how pleased I am to be here today . |
| 13 | He asked for them to be clearly marked , packed in damp moss and sent to Lord Cornbury 's by Oxford Chapel , ‘ where I am to be around generally any morning before ten if you ever have time to call ’ . |
| 14 | Now , it seems , I am to be out of pocket … ’ |
| 15 | Once proposed , speculative theories are to be rigorously and ruthlessly tested by observation and experiment . |
| 16 | This in turn might be assisted or hindered by the treatment of vocational education as well as FE colleges , sixth form colleges and tertiary colleges as entities which are to be separately funded and managed under the Further Higher Education Act 1992 . |
| 17 | Informal groups should be organized on the basis of free self-expression if they are to be most helpful . |
| 18 | It is one thing to speak of involving the student , " teaching concepts rather than facts " , " practising skills " and all the other catch phrases of educational discourse ; it is quite another thing to put them into practice , to find out how to involve the student , to elucidate which concepts are of most importance and which facts are necessary to their understanding , and particularly to distinguish which are the key skills and how they are to be most usefully practised with these students in this situation . |
| 19 | Such a judicial interference is unacceptable unless it falls within the exceptions set out in article 10(2) , which are to be narrowly interpreted and the necessity for any restrictions convincingly established . |
| 20 | As modern weathering masks many of these textures , petrographic studies are best carried out on subsurface samples wherever possible , particularly if samples are to be chemically analysed later . |
| 21 | To date the government , and the industry , has refused to be drawn on the isotopic concentration of the plutonium exported to America — critical information if objectors are to be wholly satisfied that no weapons-grade material got across to the other side of the Atlantic . |
| 22 | Inspirational leadership has to be followed by mass production and widescale distribution systems if the original ideas are to be successfully marketed . |
| 23 | This ignores the reality that attitudinal change , changes in working practices or skills and institutional change at the very least need careful and often time-consuming planning and preparation if they are to be successfully achieved . |
| 24 | Next to them , are those who , though labouring perhaps equally with the other , have yet some art mingled with their industry , and are to be particularly instructed and taught how to perform their part , and those are called workmen or handicrafts . |
| 25 | ‘ The Pakistan bowlers have added a new dimension to bowling — one that needs to be carefully noted by other countries if they are to be equally successful swingers of the old ball . ’ |
| 26 | This helps stress the need to get the whole approach right if the landings are to be reasonably accurate . |
| 27 | This question needs to be tackled if we are to be reasonably certain that observed variation reflects a speaker 's norm rather than random fluctuation in the data . |
| 28 | Ozone-depleting CFCs are to be completely phased out by the year 2000 . |
| 29 | 10 The four walls of a room are to be completely covered with curtain material costing $1 a square metre . |
| 30 | But whatever we call it , this sense that words do not just have their face-value meaning , but are to be critically interpreted as indicators of tone and attitude , is an essential part of James 's technique . |