Example sentences of "what be to [be] " in BNC.

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1 One further important change is the replacement of place of safety orders with what are to be called emergency protection orders .
2 Resolving the question as to what are to be perceived as such costs and benefits is itself a hard task .
3 The second major respect in which the assertion of the social rights of citizens has become more important is that it expresses the claims of very diverse groups in society to equal treatment , and at the same time broadens considerably the range of what are to be regarded as social rights .
4 Wherever the terms require something to be done within a period of time , the drafter should also consider what are to be the consequences of a failure to comply .
5 What were to be built were three high-speed aerodynamic research aircraft to help develop America 's Supersonic Transport aircraft .
6 The society 's board of trustees is hoping that at least part of the funds it needs by June will come from government sources : in response to a stampede of scholars from around the world who invaded the library in what were to be its final days last month , local government provided an emergency $66,000 to keep the library open until 2 April .
7 By what were to be the last years of the silent cinema quite a few critics had become aware of some sense of life in the feature film .
8 Strikes by Doherty ‘ s National Union of Operative Spinners , and in the coal fields , greatly alarmed Peel , at the Home Office ; and , in what were to be the dying days of the Tory administration , he looked unsuccessfully for a legal answer to what he called ‘ the constitution and acts of a confederacy calculated in its immediate effects to disturb the peace of the manufacturing districts , and capable , if allowed to gain strength and consistency , of being converted at once into an open resistance to the law . ’
9 Movies had always been made about the past , of course , if not so very frequently about that immediate past whose primary unit of measure is the decade rather than the century ; but it was probably Visconti 's The Damned in 1969 that inaugurated what were to be the definitive parameters of a new filmic style .
10 His influence grew by the season , and in May 1951 he achieved , at The Oval , what were to be his career-best batting and bowling figures : 87 against Glamorgan ( 10 fours and a six ; 161 in 110 minutes with Geoff Whittaker for the ninth wicket ) and 7 for 49 on a helpful pitch against Lancashire .
11 And what 's to be said of his declaration , as late as 1964 ( in Confucius to Cummings , the anthology he put together with Marcella Spann ) , that Ford 's insistence on ‘ the limpidity of natural speech , driven towards the just word , not slopping down … into the more ordinary Wordsworthian word ’ was ‘ the most important critical act of the half-century ’ ?
12 WHAT 'S TO BE DONE ?
13 ‘ I 'll have you down at my place , try you out , see what 's to be done .
14 Sit yourself down here ’ — she pointed to the bed — ‘ and let's work out what 's to be done . ’
15 She 's no longer interested in what 's to be done here . ’
16 ‘ I 'll take the dogs for a walk up by the river and see what 's to be seen .
17 She sighed deeply before ending , ‘ What 's to be done , Ben ? ’
18 I honestly do n't see what 's to be done except wait and keep our eyes open .
19 What 's to be done with the body ? ’
20 I mean somebody has to have an idea of what 's to be done and how it should be communicated to the employees . ’
21 ‘ Well , what 's to be done , then ? ’ he said quickly .
22 ‘ Then what 's to be done ? ’ cried the doctor impatiently .
23 ‘ I think they know what 's to be done , Mrs Crumwallis , ’ said Hilary Frome , coming in from the sitting-room and taking immediate charge .
24 ‘ You 're doing great — what 's to be nervous about , sitting in an underground room with nobody listening to you , eh ? ’
25 He 'll know what 's to be done about Meredith Putt . ’
26 ‘ But as you say what 's to be found ?
27 I do n't know what 's to be done about my memory . ’
28 What 's to be done ?
29 What 's to be done ?
30 I 'm , I 'm , I 'm a bit against er traders like , like builders and all like that and trade people being on the Council , I 'm a bit against that , er but after saying that , those kind of people do have some understanding on what 's to be done
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