Example sentences of "be to [be] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If parents are to be given a reasonable amount of time to talk with the teacher and some choice in the timing of the appointment then it may be best to spread the event over two days . |
| 2 | The section gives no indication that the interests of employees and shareholders are to be given a different weighting , and hence the duty of the directors in running the company would appear to one of balancing the respective interests . |
| 3 | Top civil servants , including judges , are to be awarded a four per cent pay increase in spite of recommendations they should get at least twenty percent . |
| 4 | Haberdashers and provision merchants were to be granted a few houses . |
| 5 | All householders living below the line were to be charged a local drainage rate , and this line still dictates the area of jurisdiction of internal drainage boards , whose annual expenditure is considerable and influence on the environment profound . |
| 6 | The boys were to be given a certain amount of trust in their activities so that they might have the opportunity to make themselves moral , which in turn could help them become good and valuable members of the community . |
| 7 | Demonstrations by members of the majority ethnic-Albanian population appeared to have been sparked off by concern that , given the position taken by the Serbian delegation at the extraordinary LCY congress , Kosovar Albanians were to be denied a multiparty political system in the province which would allow Albanian nationalist parties to challenge Serbian domination . |
| 8 | Their tactics were to be to maintain a tight-lipped silence punctuated by claims that the new job was harder . |
| 9 | … that men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved , and who at the most can defend themselves if they are attacked ; they are , on the contrary , creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reckoned a powerful share of aggressiveness . |
| 10 | If cycling is to be made a safer and more attractive mode of transport , it is , as Hudson 's classic book has advocated , essential that planning principles are established and followed . |
| 11 | ACOST , the Advisory Council on Science and Technology , is to be given a new name and a newly defined role . |
| 12 | Artrageous ! , which is to be given a six-week pilot run , will be presented by 22-year-old Jason Rebello , a boy wonder jazz pianist who is Britain 's answer to Herbie Hancock . |
| 13 | This phrase is to be given a strict construction ; to avoid countenancing ‘ fishing expeditions ’ , the documents must be either individual documents separately described or documents falling within a compendious description which nonetheless indicates the exact documents required . |
| 14 | RHYL 'S biggest High Street store is to be given a massive facelift . |
| 15 | European and international coverage is to be given a high profile in the magazine , reflecting the Institute 's global membership . |
| 16 | The Dolphin Centre in Darlington is to be given a green roof , councillors will be told on Wednesday . |
| 17 | Despite its importance and grade II* listing , the treatment it has received in recent years has been disgraceful , and it is to be hoped a great many lessons will have been learnt about how to deal with irresponsible owners of such important listed buildings . |
| 18 | But if this is to be called a rational method , it is so , from Stevenson 's point of view , mainly because it consists in letting one 's attitudes be moulded by rational factual beliefs . |
| 19 | GREAT Britain star Michael Jackson is to be refused a new deal at Wakefield . |
| 20 | A French radioactive waste bill has cleared the way for research into the underground storage of nuclear waste , but has postponed the decision as to whether burial is to be considered a permanent option for another 15 years [ see ED 47 ] . |
| 21 | If this arrangement is to be varied a special condition is required . |
| 22 | JOHN FRAIN , the left-back Birmingham City almost sold last week , is to be awarded a lucrative new contract at St Andrews . |
| 23 | But , in those days , to defend the House of Lords was to be dubbed a shameful reactionary . |
| 24 | None the less , some statements by members of the Association reveal that the effacement required by this procedure was no more than a tactical ploy , since one of the dominant assumptions of moral education was " that morality was to be made a conscious aim of the teacher , but concealed from the pupils , who were to imbibe the influence from literature as habit or experience " . |
| 25 | Many of us are old enough to remember the days when to contract tuberculosis — which many British people did — was to be given a virtual death sentence . |
| 26 | His brother was to be given a second chance . |
| 27 | ‘ The last I heard was that he was to be given a good education at the public school which Sir Philip 's son was attending . |
| 28 | This morning was the first time he was to be given a serious piece of work before running later in the week . |
| 29 | If a low-ranking muderris wanted to change over to the career of kasabat kadi , moreover , he was immediately better paid : a provision of the Kanunname states that if a 20-akce muderris in the were to become a kadi , he was to be given a 45-akce kadilik . |
| 30 | Here , though , was a mature artist , in her late fifties , who had been dubbed their first Associate Artist and one who was to be given a free run of the Gallery 's Permanent Collection to make transcriptions from the work of the Old Masters . |