Example sentences of "is [adv] to [be] [vb pp] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is greatly to be hoped that some version of the censorship hypothesis holds because close to naked singularities it may be possible to travel into the past . |
| 2 | It is only to be hoped that dispersals of any kind are restricted on the most severe criteria , and that money for acquisitions , storage and , perhaps most important , staff for cataloguing is not stinted . |
| 3 | But speculative source-study can reveal more about the reading of the scholar than about the actual text whose possible sources are the object of the exercise and , after all , it is only to be expected that those who share a faith will also share a way of expressing it . |
| 4 | It is only to be expected that these two rather different techniques , the Doppler shift technique and the " chirp radar " technique , would be useful for different special purposes . |
| 5 | Since each is a little different from its parent , it is only to be expected that each will be slightly more different from its grandparents ( and its grandchildren ) , and even more different still from its great grandparents ( and great grandchildren ) . |
| 6 | It is only to be expected that there are not too many IT experts around who could effectively advise policy makers and managers , and design IT systems . |
| 7 | It is only to be regretted that the Committee has not pursued this policy with sufficient boldness and consistency . |
| 8 | Qualification represents the aggregation of whatever properties the speaker feels are needed to identify sufficiently what he wishes to talk about , and so it is entirely to be expected that , on occasion , more than one adjectival property should appear . |
| 9 | We propose that that process should be concluded not later than April , but it is immensely to be hoped that it can be done far more speedily . |
| 10 | It is thus to be welcomed that a number of studies have appeared which examine the nature of the early twentieth century Conservative party and which stress the importance of Conservative ideas in understanding the Party 's development during its period of crisis . |
| 11 | ‘ Now , in point of law , it is not to be disputed that a release to one of several joint debtors releases them all . |
| 12 | This word universal is never the name of anything existent in nature , nor of any idea or phantasm found in the mind [ my italics ] , but always the name of some word or name ; so that when a living creature , a stone , a spirit , or any other thing , is said to be universal , it is not to be understood that any man , stone etc. , ever was or can be universal , but only that the words , living creature , stone , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things ; and the conceptions answering them in the mind are the images and phantasms of several living creatures or other things . |
| 13 | It is not to be doubted that there are still thousands of mainframe users that want nothing more than to continue with the kind of computing they have always known , using the environment with which they are familiar , and in which they have invested a large part of their lives . |
| 14 | Alum Pot is a fitting end to this chapter on Ingleborough , but it is not to be inferred that the words and photographs adequately describe the manifold attractions of this wonderful mountain ; literally they only touch the surface and do not probe the dark secrets beneath . |
| 15 | It is said by the appellant … that International Law has firmly fixed that a locus such as this is beyond the limits of territorial sovereignty ; and that consequently it is not to be thought that in such a place the legislature could seek to affect any but the King 's subjects . |
| 16 | In saying this , of course , we are simply restating the fundamental question of psycholinguistics and it is not to be expected that there is some answer to the problem of explanation or even a commonly agreed way of investigating the issues involved . |
| 17 | There has been a strong movement in favour of delegalization and privatization of family and personal matters ; but when moral panic breaks out law continues to be invoked as ‘ binding on everyone in society , whatever their beliefs … the embodiment of a common moral position ’ , despite the recognition that ‘ in our pluralistic society it is not to be expected that any one set of principles can be enunciated to be completely accepted by everyone . ’ |
| 18 | Each of these subjects involves a highly intricate body of law , and it is not to be expected that any one man or even three or four men can master them all . |
| 19 | It is not to be expected that each sentence written will obey grammar rules . |
| 20 | It is always to be hoped that this charism will be active in popes and bishops , but it is not , nor can it be , reduced solely to their authority . |
| 21 | Usually only one of the delegation addressed the assembly at large on the king 's needs , but it is hardly to be believed that the remainder were content merely to be seen . |
| 22 | It is hardly to be expected that it would be otherwise . |
| 23 | While the Duke of Argyll had indeed a well-established interest in the county , and John Campbell of Mamore had a long tenure of the parliamentary seat , it is hardly to be wondered that some of the gentlemen resented that blunt statement of Campbell power . |
| 24 | It is also to be noted that the factual antecedent information is backgrounded by being placed in subordinate positions in these sentences ( see 7.5.1 ) . |
| 25 | It is also to be noted that under the Torts ( Interference with Goods ) Act 1977 a person such as a repairer , improver , valuer or storer has the right to sell uncollected goods . |
| 26 | It is also to be noted that in all of the cases above the to infinitive expresses , not a particular happening , but something characteristic of the person referred to . |
| 27 | It is also to be noted that a disposition includes a disposition effected by associated operations ( IHTA 1984 , s272 ) . |
| 28 | It is also to be observed that the proposition as stated by Dillon L.J . |
| 29 | It is now to be hoped that your editorial policy will quickly realise that to in any way publicise this loathsome ‘ sport ’ is counter to your normal upholding of standards of common decency . |
| 30 | But without that pride the Spaniard would not be Spanish , as Harvey writes : ‘ It is profoundly to be hoped that he will never allow these sharp angles to be smoothed off by the modern cult of ‘ all things to all men' ’ , and a false catholicity of taste which is no taste at all . |