Example sentences of "how [pers pn] [be] to be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 All local plans are intended to develop in detail the broad structure plan policies and indicate how they are to be applied on the ground .
2 The choreographer 's problem is to select which of the movements are appropriate , when and how they are to be incorporated and what style and quality they require .
3 In written language , for example , since there is no one-to-one correspondence between the marks ( alphabetic representations ) on the page , and how they are to be pronounced in speech , there is typically a range of alternatives as to how a written letter should be said .
4 Declarative : The associations between strings and the informational domain are declared in terms of what associations are permitted , not how they are to be calculated .
5 In either case , there will eventually be a need for the consideration of the kinds of human operators required and how they are to be selected and trained .
6 Most of the vital questions as to how these skills are acquired , how they are to be selected and adjusted according to context , how easily or not different kinds of school environment can accommodate them and so on , are begged .
7 If actions are uncaused then it is not clear how they are to be explained , while , if they are caused , they are not autonomous .
8 Again , the counsellor should have prepared the ground thoroughly before the meeting starts , outlining the main areas of concern , and how they are to be introduced .
9 For Althusser 's claims are by no means easy to understand , and one reason for this is the fact that they are all exceedingly general , so that it is often unclear how they are to be used for the vital task of explaining particular states of affairs .
10 Now you put your shoulder to the wheel , your nose to the grindstone , your best foot forward and your back to the wall to see how many clichés you know and how they are to be interpreted or ignored .
11 The question is how they are to be interpreted , in order to produce a political formula that will be acceptable to the two communities — and will work .
12 The problem is one of determining what those rights are , how they are to be protected , and how the independence of the judiciary is to be maintained .
13 Community nurses have been waiting for news about how they are to be organised for some time , and uncertainty about the future is always bad for morale .
14 When children do arrive , it is their parents , not their grandparents , who should decide how they are to be brought up .
15 What I said to you yesterday , I hinted that there were difficulties we do n't know how they are to be resolved .
16 They should state how they are to be published or intimated to persons interested .
17 Would it not be a good idea , given the suggestion that all these shady capitalist things happen on only one side of the House , to discuss pension funds and how they are to be controlled ?
18 The words ‘ in connection with ’ have the widest connotation and I can not see how they are to be restricted in the absence of some context permitting such restriction .
19 Or the clause may not say how they are to be paid , in which case this should be covered at the time of fixing the procedure .
20 Outside the charmed circle of high politics , radicalism on the far left developed utopian socialist blueprints which neglected pragmatic considerations of how they were to be achieved .
21 It was fortunate that the weather was good and they could sleep in the open , but that did not solve the immediate problem of how they were to be fed .
22 RUC officers decided when troops were to be called in and how they were to be used .
23 The scribe knows that they have a lot more to say and wonders how it is to be fitted into 3000 words .
24 Planning is the managerial process of deciding in advance what is to be done and how it is to be done .
25 Certainly , a consideration of what wealth is to be used for and how it is to be redistributed is an essential ingredient of Bailey 's requirements ( readers may be interested to contrast Flew 's strictures on the notion that wealth is entirely a collective property , and that its distribution is therefore a matter for collective decision-taking ) .
26 Because of the way in which it is proposed to incorporate ‘ subsidiarity ’ into the European constitution , it will actually augment the powers of the Federalist institutions , which will be left with the essential decisions about how it is to be defined and applied .
27 You must now determine what financial help you need ( including Government subsidies for such things as new buildings , fencing , hedging , hill cattle , and sheep ) , what it will cost , and how it is to be repaid .
28 The performance measures are provided under each category together with details of the source of the information ; how it is to be collected ; how it is to be analysed ( manual/computer ) ; and the frequency of data collection ( which ranges from annually to daily ) .
29 The performance measures are provided under each category together with details of the source of the information ; how it is to be collected ; how it is to be analysed ( manual/computer ) ; and the frequency of data collection ( which ranges from annually to daily ) .
30 If , for example , I am engaged in reading a text on a subject in which I am well versed ( where the ideational or content schema is familiar ) , which has been written in a manner conventionally associated with writing on this subject ( where the interpersonal or formal schema is familiar ) , then I shall only need to pay attention to the linguistic signs to the extent that they key in this schematic knowledge and indicate how it is to be extended .
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