Example sentences of "be [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we are to connect the small towns and other settlements which were provided with fortifications with the needs of provincial administration , then they should contain buildings identifiable as either the residences and offices of the local officials , or granaries and stores-buildings for the collection and security of taxes in kind . |
| 2 | The assistant porter is a much less colourful personality whose main tasks are to clean the public rooms and to cover the boiler along with the maintenance/odd-job man . |
| 3 | Thus the approach in the report has been to state the differing philosophies as well as stating what is , at present , practically and commercially acceptable to all , to show what techniques and systems may be available in the future . |
| 4 | This is probably more than just coincidence : it suggests that the Hall 's financial policy has been to cover the direct costs and subsidize the overheads . |
| 5 | In the second belong a number of ‘ neo-populist ’ social historians whose primary concern has been to elucidate the distinctive structure and culture of the traditional peasant family farm . |
| 6 | Nuadu was glad that he was unable to speak , for to have done so , to have uttered any kind of sound , would certainly have been to betray the utter revulsion that engulfed him . |
| 7 | Another attraction of relational systems has been to enhance the searching facilities as with the work by Gallagher et al . |
| 8 | One solution could have been to put the smaller plants and animals in boxes or circles around a central illustration of a lake or pond with arrows indicating where they could be found . |
| 9 | If we are to understand the philosophical assumptions that motivate individualism , we must ask what individuals need to be like for their causal powers to exhaust the causal powers of groups , and for the characteristics of groups to be explicable in terms of the characteristics of individuals . |
| 10 | To find the best way in which to correct such an observation and to nullify its effect always poses a problem for the judge because , if he intervenes immediately , the effect will probably be to emphasise the obvious relevance and cogency of the comment which ought not to have been made . |
| 11 | The BBC Scotland task force suggested that the best way to pursue these guarantees might be to reverse the previous arrangement and keep the licence money in Scotland , paying out from it those fees imposed for taking network programmes and utilising corporate resources . |
| 12 | NATO 's objective would be to conclude the follow-on CFE and CSBM negotiations as soon as possible , looking ahead to the CSCE follow-up meeting in Helsinki in 1992 . |
| 13 | Secondly , to refuse to pay would be to deny the exalted status that Ephron and his fellow Hittites have accorded him . |
| 14 | In Strathclyde , we decided that our strategy would be to address the existing management and development issues in a general way by raising the profile of the needs of dementia sufferers and their carers across the Region — and obviously initiatives and educational material were invaluable in this and also by developing a training package , aimed at care staff in residential , day and domiciliary settings . |
| 15 | The veteran Eire international is careful not to be drawn into a new slanging match with Ferguson — but one of those reasons must be to show the United manager that he is not a crippled has-been , better equipped propping up a bar than shoring up a defence at football 's highest level . |
| 16 | Scotland must use their backs in London if they are to lift the Triple Crown and Calcutta Cup . |
| 17 | To have been too radical , however , would have been to invite the same fate as the reports of previous committees . |
| 18 | Thus , a quantum theory of gravity is essential if we are to describe the early universe and then give some explanation for the initial conditions beyond merely appealing to the anthropic principle . |
| 19 | However , thanks to the efforts of Lord Dainton , and his rapport with Mrs Thatcher , whose tutor he was at Oxford , we are to get the New Library that in Bentley 's day could not be thought of , though the Victorians created an ideal solution for their day . |
| 20 | More specifically , they were to support the Conservative party as being the most likely to tum back the revolutionary tide . |
| 21 | Should they fail to see a green or red flare fired from Larsen 's Very pistol within ten minutes , they were to launch the main assault and force their way in . |
| 22 | Nor , despite the arbitrary results capable of being produced by the requirement of illegality , is the law necessarily unwise in displaying this reluctance to extend liability , for if the requirement of illegality were abandoned a much greater burden would have to be placed upon the defence of justification if we were to avoid the intolerable situation that A was liable to C whenever and however he knowingly brought about a breach of a contract between B and C. |
| 23 | Furthermore the buyers were to keep the finished goods as ‘ fiduciary ’ for the sellers . |
| 24 | If the politicians were to take the drastic action that many voices are calling for , much of our motorised transport would not even get out of the garage . |
| 25 | Data in brackets indicate the values of change that would be ‘ expected ’ if employment in all individual manufacturing industries were to undergo the same changes as in Great Britain as a whole . |
| 26 | The trick is to see the social context as the regular participants do , while at the same time remaining a detached observer of events . |
| 27 | AGE Logic Inc , San Diego , California , is to implement the new features and protocols defined in the XIE draft standard version 4.12 for X-Window servers on behalf of the MIT X Consortium . |
| 28 | The main finding then is to support the oft-cited hypothesis that ‘ multi-plant firms close their branch plants first ’ . |
| 29 | The ‘ only means of modifying what they have done is to perform the same action when next invited to do so ’ . |
| 30 | One of the aims of Griffiths , already noted , is to promote the private sector and encourage competition . |