Example sentences of "be to [be] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it seems to me obvious that there is such a problem , er and to deny it seems to me to be to be denying the obvious . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Where warranties are to be given the following additional clause may be contained in the agreement : |
| 5 | Local authorities are to be given the leading role in the organisation of community care , but the decision to give them this responsibility was taken with the greatest possible reluctance and only after every other possibility had been explored . |
| 6 | Where the systematic approach dictates the use of chemicals as the predominate form of energy the practical relationships with other factors extend beyond energy and time to include the equipment needed to apply the chemical if costs are to be minimised the general relationship is as follows — |
| 7 | In its narrow streets are to be found the great architectural masterpieces of Fatamid and Mamaluke Cairo . |
| 8 | Czechoslovakia is better off than the other East European nations and has committed 2 per cent of its investment to environmental projects , but there once again are to be found the same dreary environmental statistics of rivers poisoned , sewage untreated , sulphur dioxide deposited and trees dying , even if the figures are not quite so bad as elsewhere . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In addition assets are to be revalued every three years , and Working Paper 5 explains how this will happen . |
| 11 | Haberdashers and provision merchants were to be granted a few houses . |
| 12 | In comprehensive schools , all the British were to be treated the same , despite the obvious differences between us of sex , class , culture , ability , religion , race , and so on . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Eight men were to be charged the following March with conspiracy in Chicago , and it was to provide cause célèbre by proxy for the British radical movements . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There was to be no all-powerful central state apparatus , and political leaders were to be given no blank cheques ; on the contrary , they were to be hedged in by a complex , decentralized and fragmented system designed to prevent any one leader or group of leaders from becoming excessively powerful . |
| 17 | Some were doubtful whether it would actually work , but all shared a hope of something new , and all were to be given an equal chance . |
| 18 | If Mr Freitag 's estimates were to be accepted the two near neighbours would be paying a difference of up to £250 in their tax . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Here were to be found the flying schools , the workshops and the hangars of Bristol , Deperdussin , A V Roe , Sopwith , Martinsyde and Vickers . |
| 21 | On May 14 , police arrested more than 1,000 Pakistan People 's Party ( PPP ) supporters in Sind , following an announcement by PPP leader Benazir Bhutto that protest rallies were to be held the following day over alleged ballot-rigging in earlier local elections . |
| 22 | From among this small group of people were to be founded the only Iranians who remained with the Shah and Queen in the months to come . |
| 23 | Their tactics were to be to maintain a tight-lipped silence punctuated by claims that the new job was harder . |
| 24 | … 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Stan Mortensen , Blackpool 's hat-trick scorer in the 1953 FA Cup final win over Bolton , is to be made an honorary freeman of the town . |
| 27 | If further size analysis is to be undertaken the best procedure is to use two identical sub-samples . |
| 28 | ACOST , the Advisory Council on Science and Technology , is to be given a new name and a newly defined role . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |