Example sentences of "be to be [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Sure God save us , ’ they would say , ‘ is n't it soft in the head the poor man must be to be carrying round an old gun for to fight the Rooskies ? ’ |
2 | Turning to the final point of the 1952 directive , it is noteworthy that ministers are to be given only the information MI5 decides they need . |
3 | If paintings or prints are to be hung on the walls it is important to work out beforehand where they are going to go , and to make sure that battens are fixed in these particular areas . |
4 | If the rabbits are to be shot then the man required to do the shooting must be freed from all other responsibilities . |
5 | Boulton realised that if Watt 's engines were to be exploited commercially the patent would have to be extended . |
6 | A resolution of 22 March 1792 provided for the erection of temporary stabling for 50 horses , to which were to be added later a lecture theatre and a dissecting room . |
7 | If pornography were to be restricted legally the mechanisms would likely to be similar to those which already affect rape reporting , so their use is relevant to both issues . |
8 | The clauses under which Edward renounced his claim to the French throne and John renounced sovereignty over Aquitaine were excised from the treaty and embodied in a separate document which laid down that the renunciations were to be carried out no later than 1 November 1361 , and were to be conditional upon the transfers of territory agreed in the treaty being implemented by June 1361 . |
9 | But as I quickly discovered , if any real progress is to be made even the most reactionary views need to be listened to and respected . |
10 | Thus , if a blind hole is to be created then an attribute must be defined which will provide a unique association between the hole and block . |
11 | Mention is made of how in the viewing of the mountains " … it is to be seen how the very naturall working of those flood falling from the height in winter stormes have broken down & worn such rifts & slitts in the rocks as hereby the dead leaders or mettall finnes or vaine have appeared unto us above ground which before were hid by the earth & stones formerly covring the rocks some 2 or 3 fathomes deep … " |
12 | A scheme is to be implemented whereby the blooms will be held offshore by a series of floating barriers . |
13 | If such a hole-to-block relationship is to be defined then a number of expert rules can be established as follows : 1 ) The domain of " hole " must have a " touching " relationship with the domain of " block " on at least one face to produce a blind hole . |
14 | Many women say cleaning is boring : you do it one day and there it is to be done again the next . |
15 | The account from which LIFESPAN RDBI is to be run i.e. the LIFESPAN process account , has sufficient quotas as specified in the LIFESPAN RDBI installation notes ( reference 11 ) . |
16 | If populations are to remain in the disadvantaged areas , and if the economy is to be diversified then the relationship between part-time farming and other complementary economic activities must be recognised in policy and fiscal terms . |
17 | When the first of the pair is to be used alone the tails of the notes should all be turned upwards , and rests for the second player placed below . |
18 | After listening to Mr Lightman 's allegations , Lord Donaldson said that if Mr Oliver 's affidavit was to be believed then The Mail on Sunday had acted in ‘ a wholly hypocritical way . ’ |
19 | The agreed price of the three acres of land was £180 and a proper conveyance was to be prepared by Theed Pearse the solicitor , who was also owner of the adjoining land on which the County Hospital was to be built nearly a century later . |
20 | The best thing that could have happened to IBM was to be broken up a decade or more ago . |
21 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
22 | Action to deal with offenders was to be taken on a voluntary rather than a court basis where possible . |
23 | Playing the Little Sweep , his clothes were to be ripped off one by one by the Big Sweep and Assistant Sweep -played by the headmaster and French master — as they sang three verses , and then he was to be thrown up the chimney . |
24 | It follows also that gravity has a negligible effect on small animals , because their surface to volume ratio is so large : if , for example , a mouse was to be dropped down a 30-metre well-shaft it would be stunned , but would scamper away relatively intact because wind resistance acting on its relatively larger surface would counteract the pull of gravity . |