Example sentences of "be to be [vb pp] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless certain advances can be made at the national level , and given that politics and governmental power are still largely national in scope certain advances must be made at that level if they are to be made at all . |
| 2 | Indeed , except for first-row elements , band shifts are rarely more than one or two cm -1 , and particular precautions must be taken if they are to be observed at all . |
| 3 | If the present deliberation of the UK 's Follett Committee are to be taken at all seriously , the research and teaching library as we now know it will change fundamentally over the next ten years . |
| 4 | It is a knitting system that should be considered as temporary storage area for patterns that are to be knitted at this time . |
| 5 | Consultation covers the way in which national programmes are to be introduced at these levels , and matters such as the efficiency of working arrangements , closure plans , staffing arrangements and relations with the public . |
| 6 | Gusty winds are to be avoided at all costs . |
| 7 | Offshore winds are dangerous and are to be avoided at all costs . |
| 8 | If the mosaics from Newton St. Loe are to be included at all in group ( a ) , it will be as one step in a distributed relationship with the other Orpheus mosaics . |
| 9 | CASHLINE machines are to be installed at several Sainsbury supermarkets as part of a Royal Bank plan to increase the number of ATMs at what are known as third party or remote locations . |
| 10 | INFRA-RED remote control receivers are to be installed at some of Darlington 's top attractions in a bid to encourage disabled users . |
| 11 | If it were to be stopped at all , then it could only be by means that fell entirely outside the constitution . |
| 12 | ‘ It would be unfortunate , ’ said Paul , ‘ if he were to be derailed at this point . ’ |
| 13 | Twelve able miners or pickmen , at least , were to be employed at all times ( Leathart had recommended 30 or 40 or the lease to become void ) . |
| 14 | The principal question , whether the serfs were to be emancipated at all , had been answered , for after the circulation of the Nazimov Rescript to provincial governors and its publication in the journal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs there was no doubt that the relationship between landowners and privately owned peasants was going to be put on a new footing . |
| 15 | Clearly , incapacity or wilful refusal to consummate a marriage as presently defined , if it were to be retained at all as part of the law , could only apply to those relationships presently regarded as marriages . |
| 16 | In Canada and the United States representatives of the Travellers ' Aid society were to be found at most large stations to advise women . |
| 17 | As someone who came from a happy , steady home , she might be able to offer help in some small way to some of these disadvantaged youngsters , a few of whom hardly know what it is to be loved at all . |
| 18 | But if self-sufficiency in terms of cash is to be achieved at this level of demand then major discoveries in the frontier areas off Nova Scotia or Newfoundland in the Atlantic or in the Mackenzie Delta off the West Coast , will need to be made . |
| 19 | As Halliday ( 1964 : 37 ) says , ‘ if a text is to be described at all , then it should be described properly ’ . |
| 20 | As a result , there is a continued shortage of residential care facilities for the full-time residence of mentally handicapped people which is perpetuating the need for mental handicap hospitals to house them , even though it is recognised by all parties that this is to be avoided at all costs . |
| 21 | The flat landing Rather like a belly flop in swimming , this is to be avoided at all costs since the flat impact can break a board in half as well as causing injury to the sailor . |
| 22 | This is to be avoided at all costs if the channel is to remain a mass audience broadcaster . |
| 23 | Even in Palestine , where the Persians had been good rulers , there had been troubles , if our confused evidence is to be trusted at all ( c . |
| 24 | This checklist is to be used at each change of activity . |
| 25 | The need for trade-offs should be recognized clearly , so as to avoid the implicit assumption that dignity is to be pursued at all costs . [ … ] |
| 26 | If the supply voltage is to be augmented at any time the transistor switch S is closed . |
| 27 | There is thus a proliferation of public examinations of a practical kind , any of which may be taken at the new schools , of which the GCSE seems to be only one , if it is to be taken at all . |
| 28 | Indeed , if the message of its architecture is to be taken at all at face value , it was a city in which the factions did not follow conventional lines at all . |
| 29 | But as is already clear from what was said in the last chapter , the irreducibility thesis , plausible though it may appear at first sight , remains highly vulnerable to criticism and requires important additional assumptions if it is to be taken at all seriously . |
| 30 | This is appropriate and necessary on major roads if traffic is to be permitted at all . |