Example sentences of "as [be] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , geniuses inspired in all the arts , who draw from things only such elements of them as are to be shown to the mind ! |
| 2 | Furthermore , there is little doubt that within the Hebrew scriptures , there are recorded some of the most valuable pieces of wisdom and rules for righteous living , as are to be found anywhere , and it is these particular tenets and doctrines , which need to be separated , completely and utterly from the dogmatic claims of ‘ god-given ’ rights and superiorities which have always been , and always will be , unacceptable to the rest of the human race . |
| 3 | b ) prevent any business ( whether on the Bill or not ) from being proceeded with on any day after the completion of all such proceedings on the Bill as are to be taken on that day . |
| 4 | As is to be expected , the story is a mixed one . |
| 5 | The black hooves are hard and the legs sound , as is to be expected in upland cattle . |
| 6 | As is to be expected such loans are liquid and generate income . |
| 7 | The lady Anne , I doubt not , wishes to attend the king 's coronation with her lord , as is to be commended . |
| 8 | The question of the ‘ Lanfranc forgeries ’ — that is , of the additions made to nine papal letters addressed to archbishops of Canterbury in order to provide clear papal authority for Canterbury 's primacy — hangs like a cloud over the primatial disputes of the years from 1072 to 1123 ; and it is important to seek such certainty as is to be obtained on this question . |
| 9 | As is to be expected from the work of such notable craftsman . |
| 10 | There is no necessary connection between community activism and progressive or radical politics : indeed , quite the reverse may well be the case , as is to be expected in a predominantly conservative society ( cf. working-class racism ) . |
| 11 | As is to be expected , there were differences of viewpoint , sometimes major , both within and between institutions . |
| 12 | As was to be the case with far more important orders to the peasantry from the very highest level at the start of collectivization after NEP , bureaucratic delays and excessive central demands soon resulted in comparable excess of zeal at local levels . |
| 13 | As in the recent past , and as was to be the case with much greater frequency after the start of the Five-Year Plans , planners in Moscow drew up neat and rather abstract formulations that did not match up closely with local realities and timings . |
| 14 | Such sky as was to be seen between them was as grey as a school sweater . |
| 15 | It was indeed precisely the combination of as much ‘ national ’ pride as was to be found among the greater kingdoms of Europe , with far less material resources on which to base it , which made Scotland so unusual . |
| 16 | Here arch , colonnade , dome , and column were flaunted in a triumphalist manner , with the vault of the great concourse projecting dramatically above the roof line as was to be common in all Beaux-Arts stations . |
| 17 | As was to be expected in American contracts there was a paragraph prohibiting any act that would shock , insult or offend the community or degrade them in society . |
| 18 | As was to be expected , town dwellers were better informed than rural people . |
| 19 | Results have shown very low levels of infection amongst the general population , as was to be expected . |
| 20 | In the burgh of Inverkeithing the effect would have been disastrous had not Captain Robert Cunningham 's money been lavishly dispensed among the councillors and magistrates , for as was to be expected , it had not been in Cunningham 's power to convince anyone in the town that he was under the protection of the Duke of Argyll . |
| 21 | Husbandmen , as was to be expected with the most numerous class — and as the typical countrymen — comprehended a broad spectrum . |
| 22 | She had been Form Mistress of Junior C from 1950 to 1962 and taught with patience , sympathy , and understanding , introducing many boys not only to drama ( as was to be expected ) but also to cricket and football . |
| 23 | Maxwell 's theory clashed with these generally accepted assumptions because it predicted that light is an electromagnetic phenomenon and also predicted , as was to be realized later , that fluctuating currents should emit a new kind of radiation , radio waves , travelling at a finite velocity through empty space . |
| 24 | Eliot , as was to be expected , was particularly interested in the kind of propaganda we were putting out to Germany and Italy : for the propaganda war had already begun and was intensifying . |
| 25 | As was to be expected , the official candidates won . |
| 26 | As was to be expected , it depends on the sign of the density gradient but not on that of the velocity gradient . |
| 27 | Mouncy Street had more of the river in its atmosphere , Decimus Street more of the gasometer , while Paradise Street , as was to be expected , was altogether richer and racier on account of the cats'-meat man who boiled up his ware in an old stable in the road . |