Example sentences of "are [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | Your committee considered various sitings and concluded that the present position is most suitable for the 3 large 1100 litre bins which are eventually to replace the exiting heterogeneous collection . |
2 | The second consideration is that students require a degree of intellectual space if they are properly to develop their own intellectual maturity . |
3 | Modern agricultural practices are mostly to blame , it seems . |
4 | Tory backbenchers and the nation at large will give Mr Major about a year before deciding whether the helmsman or his crew are mostly to blame if the nation 's ills refuse to blow away . |
5 | The Lac d'Aumar and its satellite , the Lac d'Aubert , which are on and up from the Lac d'Oredon , are somewhere to spend the day . |
6 | Er I think that advertising has a lot to answer for , er we have this er , you know on cigarette 's there are so many notices and yet we get all this hype in television ads about cars , well cars are basically to get you from A to B and er there should be restrictions in advertising and try and get away from this macho image that the car has , its in , its a necessity of life its not something which alters your ego . |
7 | If your tactics are basically to run straight towards the enemy and hit him hard then a bolt thrower is n't really going to do you any good . |
8 | Certainly within universities the more senior the the member of staff the more likely they are apparently to use a desk as a barrier erm so that they sort of er y'know you see them from behind a desk , when you 're at the front of the desk and they 're behind the desk . |
9 | The landowning vested interests are entirely to blame , said Mr Reid . |
10 | It is not the case that whenever we become a member of a civil society , a body politic , that we are so to speak signing the social contract erm think of it erm a little bit like erm a social club erm East Biddock Old Comrades Club was actually established in the way Locke describes , you know , a group of citizens of East Biddock came together and decided to establish a social club subsequently of course all sorts of people are admitted to membership of East Biddock Old Comrades Club but that as a process which , although very similar to the original contract of establishment , is n't actually erm the same , you know , they 're not actually re-establishing the civil society , they 're joining one that already exists . |
11 | All of these recommendations , however , are only to give you a first taste of the scope of theatrical writing . |
12 | ‘ We will be campaigning throughout the country on the theme ‘ the betrayal of Britain by the Conservative Party ’ , and saying the tax increases are merely to pay for mistakes of the past . ’ |
13 | Their differences are henceforth to take second place to the fight against Mr Hussein 's regime . |
14 | Tonight Joyce Carey and Graham Payne are in to see the show . |
15 | They are in to feed . |
16 | INDUSTRIAL SALESPERSON : We have helped a number of companies in the same kind of business as you are in to achieve considerable savings by the use of our stock control procedures . |
17 | Gloucester rugby are back in league action tomorrow … the cherry and whites are away to orrell … last time out they beat Northampton so let's hope they 're on a winning roll … |
18 | But it is not only to the institutionalised abuse of animals that we must turn if we are progressively to disengage ourselves . |
19 | A spokesman for the Department of Trade and Industry said : ‘ The changes are generally to make the advertisements clearer and easier to understand . |
20 | The public is not therefore antagonistic towards the mentally handicapped or especially afraid of them ; the emotional responses are generally to feel sorry for them and uncomfortable in their presence . |
21 | Yet several big mergers will be needed , if some of the large money-centre and super-regional banks are not to risk following Bank of New England down the hole . |
22 | We should know something about the periodicity of the variables we are monitoring if we are not to risk either unnecessarily detailed data collection or aliasing of trends ; |
23 | Believers are not to love the world , and one day it will pass away ( 1 John 2:15 , 17 ) . |
24 | And they are très nécessaire , if we women are not to die like this . ’ |
25 | ‘ If women are not to die how ? ’ |
26 | Thus they are not to ask how their decisions can best promote the general welfare . |
27 | You are not to engage , I repeat , not to engage . ’ |
28 | Somebody 's slipped over and they 've got all the grit in their knuckles in the part of their knuckles and you want to bandage the hand or there 's a cut on the hand , even on the palm , we can do that one later when it 's really , when it 's really a gash , gushing blood we can do this afternoon , I repeat again none of these which you 've done this morning will control severe bleeding , get it into your heads this is just to cover to keep infection out , alright , these are not to control severe bleeding just covering a minor wound or a graze , right ? |
29 | You are not to smoke |
30 | We are not to argue , though , that since ‘ I ’ does not refer to the man René Descartes it has some other , more intangible , thing to refer to . |