Example sentences of "[adj] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole raison d'être of these devices and software is to enable copy-protection to be overcome . |
| 2 | The canapes were under tin-foil to be produced later , the Assistant Manager paced the floor decorating the Office with leaflets , as if by some quirk of fate this evening might well be the making of his career . |
| 3 | Impossible you might think , for this to be kept secret — but it was , from all except his doctor , his personal aide , and his wife who , in effect , ran the US government for seven months . |
| 4 | How is this to be done . |
| 5 | PAYMENT FOR ARTICLES Payments or offers of payment for stories , pictures or information should not be made to witnesses or potential witnesses in current criminal proceedings or to people engaged in crime or their associates except where the material concerned ought to be published in the public interest , and the payment is necessary to enable this to be done . |
| 6 | The format of the church funeral service allows this to be done in a recognized , public , orderly and time-limited way . |
| 7 | ( 25 ) If someone who has been instructed to construct a building is prepared to give the money to the town for it to do so itself , since the testator wished this to be done by that person himself , his plea will not be heard : so ruled the late emperor Marcus in a rescript . |
| 8 | Two social workers asked for this to be done , because they were so concerned about the policy they were supposed to be implementing . |
| 9 | By the late 1920s these cars were really in need of drastic rebuilding and from 1927 , it was possible to send them away to Hendon for this to be done properly . |
| 10 | He added : ‘ This is a real nobs ’ area of Abingdon — all doctors and bank managers and the last place you would expect something like this to be done . ’ |
| 11 | No further allusion was made to the issue of fealty , and Edward II himself replied ‘ with an amiable countenance , : ‘ We willingly wish this to be done [ i.e. the alliance to be renewed ] , for it is right . ’ |
| 12 | How , then , is this to be done ? |
| 13 | How is this to be done ? |
| 14 | However , it required this to be done only up to the amount of the buyer 's outstanding indebtedness to the seller . |
| 15 | She then swept the kitchen floor , knowing her aunt would wish this to be done , and as she swished the few crumbs into the dustpan she heard Silas moving furniture in the dining-room . |
| 16 | How is this to be done ? |
| 17 | But there was a real need for this to be done nationally . |
| 18 | We would want this to be seen logically , through approval of the structure plan , to be taken up in r in the relevant local plan , and for that relevant local plan to then sort out competing claims from prospective developments , in mu in much the same sort of exercise as we 've seen in the structure plan but obviously in a more detailed way . |
| 19 | Latencies within LIFESPAN may cause this to be exceeded ; typically this will be less than 30 modules . |
| 20 | The Committee point out that a ‘ general ban on twin-tracking would deprive 3 million people of the right to be a councillor ’ ( Widdicombe 1986:112 ) and they did not believe this to be justified . |
| 21 | Even if labour moves between firms , they carry with them more skill and experience than a new recruit and may therefore expect this to be rewarded . |
| 22 | ( This , in principle , implies inhomogeneity , but the decay is slow enough for this to be neglected . ) |
| 23 | Labour makes promises : a new council house building programme , more money for community care , more money for roads and pavements , more for teachers , better schools , extra equipment , new capital expenditure , leisure centres and sports facilities — and all of this to be funded without a general increase in taxation . |
| 24 | It is extraordinary that it took so long for the importance of this to be realised in Britain . |
| 25 | Variations can also be expected to exist between the more and the less accessible rural areas , but few published data exist that allow this to be illustrated . |
| 26 | Consideration of some of the routine day to day techniques of molecular biology allows this to be illustrated . |
| 27 | But for this to be achieved there are problems which must be overcome . |
| 28 | The goal is to divert through traffic yet continue to permit access , with this to be achieved by closing some residential streets at their junction with main roads , by closing streets within the area to create culs-de-sac or loop roads , or by restricting some streets to one-way traffic . |
| 29 | How is this to be achieved ? |
| 30 | ‘ How is all this to be achieved ? |