Example sentences of "the [noun] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The schoolmistress was ‘ quite inefficient ’ and was also to go , but the porter was to be admonished only . |
| 2 | It applies whenever the defendant raises the defences of justification and fair comment , and will apply if the defence is to be qualified privilege unless the evidence of malice is so overwhelming that no reasonable jury would sustain the privilege . |
| 3 | And what the response was to it because , well I I did try it merely sort of to experience it , and I do n't think that it was an addictive experience and |
| 4 | And the conclusion of that is we go for a criteria based approach for the time being , see see what the response was to that er and nothing was said about identifying the site as such . |
| 5 | Therefore , the NZSA is to be commended for proposing the SCFW in an attempt to persuade entities to deal with some of the historical cost system 's deficiencies . |
| 6 | The contracts are to be let in two blocks . |
| 7 | The best way to secure future jobs and future collieries is to win the largest possible share of the electricity-generation market , and the contracts are to be renewed next year . |
| 8 | Understandably , despite such possible complexity , the purchaser will not be interested in the legal semantics of how the contracts are to be transferred but will be interested in two main practical concerns : firstly , in receiving the benefit of the contracts in return for performing the burden and secondly , in not paying for a contract if the purchaser can not benefit from it . |
| 9 | In 455 the Goths were to be the prime movers in his elevation to imperial office . |
| 10 | The remainder were to be preserved or put to other uses , but delays in reaching decisions often meant that the buildings had been severely vandalised by the time they were available for conversion . |
| 11 | Half of the amount was destined for housing , public works and other economic assistance , while the remainder was to be made up of export assistance and trade benefits . |
| 12 | F7,000 million of this was to be repaid over six years ( with a three-year grace period ) , while the remainder was to be paid back by the end of 1989 . |
| 13 | The remainder was to be raised by the issuing of one-year bonds which would be redeemed by smaller tax increases than originally proposed . |
| 14 | Half the country 's state enterprises were to be privatized by end-1993 , a large proportion of the remainder was to be converted into wholly state-owned joint stock companies , competition was to be promoted , agriculture modernized , a sound banking system created , and a modern tax and budgetary system implemented . |
| 15 | Under the agreement half of the Chimanes forest was designated a " permanent production zone " i.e. available for " sustainable forestry " , while the remainder was to be a research area . |
| 16 | In the crowds were to be found most kinds of urban and industrial workers but hardly ever farm labourers ; in many cases they were shielded from the market by receiving part of their wages in kind , and in general the authority structure of the countryside was sufficient to deter them from rioting . |
| 17 | The Paulistas are to Brazil what the Milanese are to Italy : they are the businessmen , the ones with the energy and the drive and , as a consequence , they are disliked by the rest of the Brazilians . |
| 18 | Planning permission will be required if the height of the ridge is to be raised , or if a dormer window is added to a roof slope which fronts onto a highway , and roof alterations caused by loft conversions will certainly require approval under the Building Regulations . |
| 19 | The Maggot referred to himself as a ‘ good old country boy ’ which description provoked Ellen , who could not stand the sight of him , to comment that John Maggovertski was to country what the serpent was to Eden . |
| 20 | Even when , sixteen years later in 1833 , he saw in trade unionism the instrument through which to establish industrial democracy , the change was to be painless , to steal upon the country unaware , ‘ like a thief in the night ’ . |
| 21 | The protein part of the LDL reacts with another protein in the membrane of the tissue , where the cholesterol is to be off-loaded , rather like a key fitting into a lock . |
| 22 | Fittings with small bulbs work best because the nearer the filament of the bulb is to the reflector , the narrower the beam of light . |
| 23 | He does not mention , however , the choices that have to be made during execution of such trials , the ultimate allegiance of the clinician being to each patient separately while that of the researcher is to the overall trial design . |
| 24 | the view of the traffic planners here is that if the bike is to be seen as a realistic substitute to the car over distances of up to two km , then every point must be made accessible to it . |
| 25 | Since ‘ not the Government , only persons can have responsibility ’ , the struggle was to be waged in the constituencies , against individual MPs . |
| 26 | First , section 238(1) provides that any member , holder of the company 's debentures and any person who is entitled to receive notice of general meetings shall , not less than 21 days before the accounts are to be laid before the general meeting under section 241 , be sent copies of them . |
| 27 | The opening day of the trial was to be devoted to legal arguments and Mr Beltrami , Moira , Meehan and myself turned up at the Courts of Justice to hear them . |
| 28 | The out of court settlement made two days before the trial was to be heard has been hailed as a legal milestone by the Spinal Injuries Association . |
| 29 | This is of course to beg the question of where the dividing line between the interest of the nation state and that of the EEC is to be drawn . |
| 30 | Notice how sensitive the board is to weight movements the further back you step . |