Example sentences of "life [be] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | TWO BUNGLING Army doctors whose mistakes cost an Ulster woman her life are to be sued by her heartbroken family . |
| 2 | But the word fits singer and composer Slim Gaillard , whose extraordinary life is to be celebrated in a four-part Arena series , Slim Gaillard 's Civilisation . |
| 3 | Its basis is that all life is to be valued and treated with respect ; that the rhythm of life is something implanted by the Creator ; that the different ecosystems have to be treasured , even when we regard them as hostile to human life itself . |
| 4 | They are told by the media , and everything else , that their main function in life is to be attractive . |
| 5 | It is impossible to imagine that there is any purpose to life that makes any sense at all other than that life is to be enjoyed . |
| 6 | This can be construed as being in accord with the important premise of this book that life is to be enjoyed . |
| 7 | In the final analysis , there can be only one conclusion to be drawn , and that is that the Christian promise of happiness in the ‘ hereafter ’ was in reality an appeal to ‘ selfishness ’ , which is also the appeal of the teaching of one of the basic premises of this book , namely , that life is to be enjoyed here on earth . |
| 8 | Life is to be enjoyed . |
| 9 | ‘ Life is to be enjoyed to the full . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The only thing I want in life is to be a doctor . ’ |
| 11 | For if a particular form of social life is to be maintained , the practices of a society must not undermine the legitimating scheme embodied in the dominant instance . |
| 12 | This raises the fundamental issue of how , ultimately , the value of life is to be determined . |
| 13 | All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off . |
| 14 | Since the significance of life is to be found outside the claims of the usual world , the " ordinary " characters who inhabit that world are bound to seem unreal or flimsy . |
| 15 | Where the problem arises is in the comparatively rare situation in which an adult patient declines to consent to treatment which in the clinical judgment of those attending him is necessary if irreparable damage is not to be done to his health or , in some cases , if his life is to be saved . |
| 16 | If used as total flooding agents , however , they can be extremely effective , but the toxicity of bulk carbon dioxide , and to a lesser extent , the halons , is such as to demand a gas-tight enclosure for the storage , if danger to adjacent life is to be avoided . |
| 17 | It is unfair to the citizen , who is entitled in a democratic society to have the rules by which his life is to be regulated properly debated and scrutinized by his elected representatives . |
| 18 | My one dream in life is to be able to travel . |
| 19 | All of our economic life is to be decided by an unelected , unaccountable single central bank . |
| 20 | The culture-ideology of consumerism proclaims , literally , that the meaning of life is to be found in the things that we possess . |
| 21 | In ways such as these , late Roman bishops worked slowly , by piecemeal additions and elaborations of regularly recurrent observances , to define a new sacred time in which the Christian life was to be wholly caught up , until the sacred time of the old pagan past was slowly forgotten , or emptied of its charge of religiosity . |
| 22 | He said that Stompie must be taken to a hospital if his life was to be saved . |
| 23 | A professional career as such seemed out of the question ; his only ambition in life was to be an artist . |
| 24 | Before television and feminine liberation , when the men were out drinking or at football , the women on their off-duty moments were usually to be seen at the window , where their social life was to be found . |
| 25 | It coexisted with an ardently self-purifying ethos , where every emotion in literature and life was to be tried and tested against moral examples offered by the great poets and novelists of past time : by Blake 's Songs of Innocence and Experience , by George Eliot 's Middlemarch , by the fiction ( above all ) of D. H. Lawrence . |
| 26 | All she wanted was not to know again , so that she could stay a little child and never have to grow up and face the world without her mother to wake her in the mornings and teach her things and tell her stories and pass on all her wisdom about the world and men and how babies came and why the best any woman could hope for in this life was to be able to make one man happy . |
| 27 | From Kintu sprang all the Masai , whose life was to be a great odyssey . |
| 28 | And from now on , Tess 's life was to be completely different . |
| 29 | Once more her life was to be justified . |