Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are they flats or are they to do with car parks or what ? |
| 2 | And how are we to make alliances with those women or are we to say that we do not wish to do so until they 've gone through a greater degree of learning process . |
| 3 | Or are we to insist that assurance of faith exists in a believer even when he is sure that such assurance does not exist ? |
| 4 | Or are we to suppose that Capitalism having been displaced by Socialism in the Marxist version , work with all the disagreeable characteristics which turn it into toil or boredom will have been reduced to the bare minimum necessary to sustain society and that a consequent and vast increase in the leisure will enable us to fulfil ourselves ? |
| 5 | ‘ Are we to work together , Holly , or are we to fight ? ’ |
| 6 | Or are we to stand here all day ? |
| 7 | Were they in the interests of freedom to follow tradition and protect and facilitate a march , albeit odious in its characteristics , or were they to seek a ban under the Public Order Act 1936 ? |
| 8 | Is it because of our year or is it to do with money . |
| 9 | Is it to avoid confusion with other films of the same name or is it to give hapless viewers an idea of who they were dating , or supposed to be dating , at the time ? |
| 10 | Is the department a marginal service for which the overhead commitment is already made or is it to recover all its costs , including capital ? |
| 11 | Does not that mean that we should be putting a great deal more money into such research or is it to remain the Cinderella of medicine for ever ? |
| 12 | It also raises critical questions about purpose , like : is the purpose of education to consolidate the logic of the present system or is it to challenge and transform it ? |
| 13 | Or is it to bring down the usurper himself ? |
| 14 | Will the patients charter be guaranteed by public funds or is it to depend in future on private charity ? |
| 15 | Is it just to remain an afterthought , a theorization of a practice past , or is it to become a political intervention in a practice still happening ? |
| 16 | He said , ‘ Jane , is your goal to help the chimps , or is it to appear to be helping the chimps ? ’ |
| 17 | Or is he to allow her to rest her left forearm on his right and to guide her round in an elegant mazurka — leading her , as it were , from the shoulder so that she always moves just in front of him ? |
| 18 | Or is he to show how difficult he finds them ? |
| 19 | Was I therefore to assume that homelessness was an issue peculiar only to Apex members within the G M B or was I to reach the alternative , and I might say equally ridiculous conclusion , that despite its majority of women membership , toxic sock , shock syndrome was not of particular interest to Apex members ? |
| 20 | Or was it to do |
| 21 | Or was it to exorcise them ? |
| 22 | Or was it to organise workpeople to fight the most immediate battles ? |
| 23 | Is he entitled to confine himself to the particular matters for which he is retained to advise or was he to consider all the circumstances affecting the underlying data including hypothetical circumstances or risks which attention directed from one and not specifically sought . |
| 24 | So I think there are difficulties and I might er just finally add that were we to go along the lines he mentioned , we would of course need primary er legislation because we could n't introduce in orders under the relevant legislation this , so it would have to be a matter for another day , were we to er consider that seriously , but it is not the intention of the government . |
| 25 | When we say that what we see is a mile away , we must mean that were we to move forward a mile , we would be ‘ affected with such and such ideas of touch ’ ; and so Berkeley concludes that the things we see are not the same as those we touch . |
| 26 | Nor can we believe that were we to allow this application , potential future witnesses would be deterred from co-operating in investigations yet to come or the police feel inhibited from giving future reassurance as to the consequences of such co-operation in the self-same terms as at present . |
| 27 | I hope that Opposition Members accept that were we to attempt a rushed account this evening it would of necessity be incomplete . |
| 28 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that were he to make representations to the Chancellor of the Exchequer , there is no constitutional impediment to the Chancellor abolishing taxes before Budget day ? |
| 29 | Heseltine faced the tactical dilemma that were he to campaign openly and be seen to be instrumental in splitting the party and bringing down the Prime Minister , he would be criticised as divisive and disloyal . |
| 30 | Specifically the grotesque threat that were I to penetrate a woman I would lose my penis . |