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 .
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