Example sentences of "he is to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are we to assume that he is to be honoured for his illustrious career as US Secretary of State for Defence ? |
| 2 | He is to be afforded shelter from bombardment ‘ to the same extent as the local civilian population . ’ |
| 3 | It is said that nothing so concentrates a man 's mind as the knowledge that he is to be hanged in the morning . |
| 4 | The enemy is wily and therefore the more unlikely a person looks , the more likely he is to be the secret enemy . |
| 5 | And do not let him think he is to be parted from you forever Ellen for this would not be the truth . |
| 6 | But I do not think it is this threat alone which explains the sick feeling of dread — rather like the feeling of a man who knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight — which clouds the prospect of a Labour victory . |
| 7 | He is to be replaced by non-executive director John Smale , former chairman and chief executive of Procter & Gamble . |
| 8 | He is to be succeeded by another ex-ambassador to Mexico , Sir Michael Simpson-Orlebar . |
| 9 | He is to be replaced as Attorney-General by Sir Nicholas Lyell . |
| 10 | He is to be congratulated on this singularly structured approach . |
| 11 | In houses where only the ground floor is centrally heated , the patient may not feel comfortable in the upstairs area , so if this is where he is to be , for other practical reasons , he will need heaters in his room , or the central heating system should be extended . |
| 12 | There is therefore reference in the case of each candidate to his own positive ability , not to the whole class of other candidates with whom he is to be compared . |
| 13 | ‘ With his business training and keen sense of duty , he makes an admirable country gentleman ; on all Boards , on all Committees , on all Councils , in politics , and generally in affairs , he is to be counted on and depended upon ; he brings an admirable sense of rectitude and a very kindly heart to bear on public business . |
| 14 | Give a child a piece of paper to hold and say that he is to be sure not to let anyone interfere with it . |
| 15 | He classified his poems on Hartleian principles , e.g. Imagination , Affection , Sentiment and Reflection , and in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads he explained that one of the functions of poetry is to show how ‘ we associate ideas in a state of excitement ’ ; Wordsworth did not expect his poems to ‘ gratify certain known habits of association ’ — he will provide new associations and ‘ create the taste by which he is to be enjoyed ’ . |
| 16 | Might I congratulate you on the birth of Henry , or Harry as I notice he is to be called from the announcement in the papers . |
| 17 | I think he is to be pitied because all he does is make enemies for himself . |
| 18 | A DOCTOR convicted of attempted murder after giving a dying patient an overdose will know within days if he is to be struck off . |
| 19 | Bowe , 6ft 5in and 235lb , and with an 81-inch reach , represents the man mountain that Holyfield must scale if he is to be accepted as someone other than a caretaker holding the keys to the division until another genuine champion arrives . |
| 20 | calling for his immediate release , and if he is to be charged , given a fair and prompt trial ; |
| 21 | Gazza should now be encouraged , not discouraged , and then disillusioned to find out that he is to be overlooked until next February . |
| 22 | But after ramming their words back down their throats his enormous smile shows how delighted he is to be a golden oldie ! |
| 23 | Lascube has served his suspension , as did Moscato , but the latter will have to show that his discipline has improved before he is to be considered for selection again . |
| 24 | The standard has been set by Penny 's monumental work , and he is to be heartily congratulated for his achievement . |
| 25 | The member of parliament did not give up his efforts to find a place for the young officer , but the close connection between parliamentary politics and placement was made abundantly clear by Scott 's insistence to his correspondent that the young man 's father , a Dundee councillor , would first have to make clear ‘ whether he is to be friendly ’ to the politician . |
| 26 | In his final commentary , however , he is to be found mourning the loss of faith : |
| 27 | Within his own country , he is not so much a Leviathan as a Gulliver figure hemmed in and tied down by a complex network of restraints that must be thrown off if he is to be more than a helpless giant in the White House . |
| 28 | He is to be congratulated on his excellent choice of guardian angels . |
| 29 | The reader 's expectation is to be satisfied by the unexpected : he is to be taken away from normal concerns by events of an exaggerated , heightened nature , often taking place in exotic , distant surroundings . |
| 30 | The years of training in which Marco has learned from his father to be brave and loyal , to be secret and silent , are now to be proved : he is to be the messenger . |