Example sentences of "but [be] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably the viewers ' discarded baked bean cans are not for actually building the intensive care units , but are to be recycled for money to fund them . |
| 2 | Unfortunately they are no longer produced but are to be found in specialist used-camera stores , and their lens quality is often superior . |
| 3 | His actions then ( in this case in calling the twelve ) did not simply relate to his immediate Jewish context , but are to be seen as a considered action undertaken in relation to his having founded the church . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Radical and conservative values continue to co-exist and are not so much the properties of different populations but are to be found within the thinking of the same people ( Billig , 1982 ; Billig et al . , |
| 6 | The finest Perpendicular examples are not confined to cathedrals and abbeys but are to be found in parish churches , chapels and houses . |
| 7 | Joint promotions are not specific to consumer goods , but are to be seen more often as companies attempt to find new promotional techniques . |
| 8 | Here were good and robust buildings , loved by local residents , which could be converted to a range of uses , but were to be demolished and replaced with mediocre high street architecture . |
| 9 | The then Chairman of the Housing Committee was to be a leading member of ‘ Labour against Militant ’ and crucial decisions , including this one , were usually remitted from the full Housing Committee to a smaller Housing Committee Working Group which met privately and was given the task of disposing of 25 sites which had originally been reserved for council house or Housing Association use , but were to be sold , used for Partnership or HELP schemes , or used for equity shares . |
| 10 | He meant by this that the areas of colour in his painting were not to be blended by the eye but were to be seen as acting on each other reciprocally , thus producing pictorial form and space . |
| 11 | Here , ‘ symptomatic ’ reading is central : the literary text does not offer aesthetic or moral value , but is to be interrogated for its ideological implications . |
| 12 | The independent contractor is one who has agreed to do a piece of work , but is to be left free to choose his own method of doing it . |
| 13 | This kind of maladaptive feature would be hard to explain if we had been designed by an all-wise creator , but is to be expected if structures change their functions in the course of evolution . |
| 14 | It was made the victim of frustration … but is to be freed from the shackles of mortality and enter upon the liberty and splendour of the children of God . ’ |
| 15 | Bristol , Avon-based Meiko Ltd has installed one of its expandable 3.2GFlops CS-2 parallel processing systems at Southampton University : the system will initially be used by the University 's Concurrent Computation Group to evaluate the portable programming system being developed under the European Community 's Esprit-3 research programme , but is to be expanded to provide a central computing resource for molecular and computational dynamics research and for developing applications with the university 's industrial partners . |
| 16 | It was demolished in 1971 but is to be re-erected opposite the Royal Victoria Hotel thus symbolically reuniting Albert the Good with is dear wife . |
| 17 | The clerkship of a licensing board is not to be held by the incumbent of a particular office but is to be held by an officer appointed and employed by the appropriate district or islands council . |
| 18 | All others are possible , but is to be avoided . |
| 19 | John Piper was , at the time , a constable , but was to be discharged from his duties at the following session . |
| 20 | He was not to be summoned at short notice or dropped in on , but was to be treated as one would a man whose time was as valuable as one 's own . |
| 21 | Although great power was vested in the philosophers who were to be the rulers , their personal self-interest was not to be a source of private gain but was to be made subservient to the state . |
| 22 | The care for the poor was not to be undertaken by private charity as and when people decided to give but was to be organised by the society . |
| 23 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that the phrase ‘ office or employment ’ in section 16(2) ( c ) of the Act was not confined to the narrow limits of a contract of service but was to be construed in a wider sense as a matter of ordinary language ; and that , accordingly , the provision of services by the appellant as a self-employed accountant was properly described as employment within the ambit of section 16(2) ( c ) ( post , p. 506B–D , E–G ) . |
| 24 | On the idealist view , knowledge was not to be simply read off the world but was to be gained through entering a critical dialogue with others . |
| 25 | The book was to be based on my M.A. thesis , but was to be extended to a more general treatment of the language of advertising . |