Example sentences of "is [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It represents a halfway position between jobbing production and mass production , and is mostly to be found in the light engineering industry . |
| 2 | I consider that this is properly to be regarded a case of extortion colore officii . |
| 3 | It seems to us that it is a perfectly proper use of ordinary language and as such to be readily understood by ordinary literate men and women to say of a person in this appellant 's position that his services as an accountant were ‘ employed ’ by his customers , and that this state of affairs is properly to be described by the word ‘ employment . ’ |
| 4 | But in my judgment , at all events where the belief is that A is going to be given a right in the future , it is properly to be regarded as giving rise to a species of constructive trust , which is the concept employed by a court of equity to prevent a person from relying on his legal rights where it would be unconscionable for him to do so … |
| 5 | But what is most to be welcomed about the current spate of rhetorical outrage from politicians is the emerging consensus between Labour and the Tories on a new approach — an attempt to fill the moral vacuum , to look at society as a whole for the flaws . |
| 6 | It is rather to be traced to the survival of feudal notions of lordship . |
| 7 | If a deal is eventually to be wrung out of a reluctant Kremlin to break the deadlock over the Baltic republics , much will depend on how much support Mr Yeltsin can muster . |
| 8 | If , by virtue of the above , proceedings may be commenced in either court , the choice of court will be influenced by the following considerations : ( 1 ) where the case is eventually to be tried , ie whether in the High Court or in the county court — separate rules for each , set out below , apply ; ( 2 ) whether the county court has jurisdiction to grant the relief being sought ( see Chapter 2 ) ; ( 3 ) whether the county court has jurisdiction to enforce the judgment to be obtained ( see Chapter 2 ) ; and ( 4 ) the risk of being struck out or penalised in disallowance of costs if proceedings which are clearly suitable for one court are brought instead in the other ( see below ) . |
| 9 | Grunte is rarely to be seen in the constituency and even more rarely in the House of Commons . |
| 10 | Her Majesty 's Government , by the mouth of the Queen 's chief minister , has announced that no distinction is henceforward to be made between universities and other places in which students of similar age and attainments seek instruction and qualifications . |
| 11 | ( For a fuller account , which gives a much more rounded picture than is possible here of such thinkers as Schleiermacher , Hegel and Kierkegaard , and which also gives special attention to British and American theology , Claude Welch , Protestant Thought in the Nineteenth Century , vol. 1 : 1799–1870 ( 1972 ) , is especially to be recommended . ) |
| 12 | This does not , therefore , purport to be a standard list , and it is recognised that an up to date and authoritative list is greatly to be desired . |
| 13 | The recent government commitment to providing an element of specialist music teaching in primary schools is greatly to be welcomed . |
| 14 | It is greatly to be hoped that some version of the censorship hypothesis holds because close to naked singularities it may be possible to travel into the past . |
| 15 | My right hon. Friend 's agreement to such a review and initiative is greatly to be welcomed . |
| 16 | That is greatly to be welcomed . |
| 17 | ( Since the radioactive dust has killed many animals , the ownership of a scarce animal is greatly to be desired and very costly . |
| 18 | The committee do not expect members participating to be put to any expense or undue trouble , the proposal is merely to be an ‘ old boy ’ friend in a strange town or country . |
| 19 | If the instrument is only to be an indicator of magnetic activity then calibration is not really necessary . |
| 20 | High-speed , hood-down progress is only to be undertaken with all windows up as otherwise the wind whips round the side and into the cabin . |
| 21 | Most of the companies in the top 10 are small and fast-growing , which is only to be expected — after all , it would be extraordinary for ICI to double its earnings . |
| 22 | So a certain weariness is only to be expected . |
| 23 | ‘ A little nervousness is only to be expected when you 're starting a new job ’ |
| 24 | This is only to be expected . |
| 25 | It is only to be hoped that dispersals of any kind are restricted on the most severe criteria , and that money for acquisitions , storage and , perhaps most important , staff for cataloguing is not stinted . |
| 26 | The repeated frustration of his attempts to introduce changes led to an impassioned plea in the Sunday Express for more freedom of action at club level : ‘ I appeal to the authorities to release the brake which they seem to delight in jamming on new ideas … as if wisdom is only to be found in the council chamber … |
| 27 | Muddles in language often occur ( as is only to be expected ) in the petitioner 's question rather than in the jurist 's answer . |
| 28 | Censorship is only to be exercised in accordance with the law of the land |
| 29 | The striking thing about cases such as these is not that they failed — that is only to be expected — but rather that they contain suggestions that a proper claim might meet with success , although difficulty might attend mounting it . |
| 30 | But again , this is only to be expected on a cheap new instrument ( and not unheard of on new guitars costing ten times as much ) and easily fixed . |