Example sentences of "old be to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | all women between 20 and 64 years old are to be invited for screening ( by March 1993 ) ; |
| 2 | all women between 50 and 64 years old are to be invited for screening by breast X-ray ( mammography ) by March 1993 . |
| 3 | To be old is to be , of necessity , unhealthy . |
| 4 | To be old is to be unhealthy . |
| 5 | Estes and Binney ( 1988 , p. 69 ) describe the image of older people in America as ‘ to be old is to be frail , sick , dependent and vulnerable ’ . |
| 6 | To be old is to be wrinkled and crabbit and heading for Parkinson 's or Alzheimer 's disease . |