Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But my words were to no avail . |
| 2 | ‘ Most of my monuments are to the victims of Fascism , to the Partisan movements . |
| 3 | I concentrate on paddling in time with everyone else but my efforts are to no avail . |
| 4 | So , it came as something of a disappointment when a Ms Mel Chevannes , who ran a black supplementary school in the West Midlands , wrote to the Wolverhampton Express and Star to protest at my testing ‘ hypotheses that black people are ‘ happy-go-lucky or very physical in their outlook ’ ’ and that my aims were to ‘ damage even further the life chances of black children ’ ( 25 June 1980 ) . |
| 5 | My fears were to be unfounded as the nurse chatted to me and before could stop fantasizing about women in uniform the needle was in and the blood was pumping . |
| 6 | So erm the point of my remarks is to , to add to number two the following er the following words erm and urge the panel to bring forward suggestions for a rite celebrating the gift of new birth . |
| 7 | He attempted it once at St Mungo 's tomb , in the crypt of the cathedral , to whose depths they had finally descended together ; as a rule their outings were to Glasgow Green , if it was fine , or if it rained , the sitting-room , with Ellen the maid in constant attendance . |
| 8 | Brewers found to have diluted their products were to be incarcerated in their own vats . |
| 9 | In their accounts are to be found , prima facie , the best interpretations of what went on , from the standpoint of the problem of the interpretation of action . |
| 10 | In the main , therefore , its ideologies are to be found in the form of its embodied working practices and unquestioned assumptions rather than at the level of manifest policy statements . |
| 11 | For students all too easily feel that they have to come up with negative assessments if their appraisals are to be worth anything . |
| 12 | Their methods were to be essentially agitational — employing lectures , insertions in the daily press , travelling agitators in foreign parts and a campaign of publishing . |
| 13 | Their tactics were to be to maintain a tight-lipped silence punctuated by claims that the new job was harder . |
| 14 | They had arrived at their given destination , had ridden out the Chief Wren 's wrath , and tea — and toast , too , if their noses were to be believed — were within blessed reach . |
| 15 | The Committee soon became the Central ( Unemployed ) Body ( CUB ) , with one of its functions being to ‘ establish , take over , and assist Labour Exchanges or Employment Registers and collect information ’ . |
| 16 | If survivors into the ninth and tenth decades of their lives are to be adequately served , it must be at the expense of younger generations . |
| 17 | I have first tried to show how their origins are to be found in certain political ideologies . |
| 18 | Secondly , it is necessary to explain whence and how its co-ordinates are to be assigned . |
| 19 | The archaic heritage which Freud postulated was innate in all of humanity , not just the Jews , and is of phylogenetic origin ; it is not the same as the ontogenetic conflicts of the individual , although it is analogous to such conflicts in the way its effects are to be grasped and understood . |
| 20 | Its effects were to be felt long after Gouraud and his successor , General Weygand , had died . |
| 21 | Some of its effects were to be much condemned . |
| 22 | One of their obligations is to always provide two-way prices on the discount money market instruments which have been considered in this chapter . |
| 23 | Now further recognition of their feats is to be paid in style and already arrangements are at an advanced stage . |
| 24 | Its beginnings are to be found in the Llanelly Dock & Railway Company , one of the earliest Welsh railways , which obtained powers in 1835 to build a line from Llanelli to Llandeilo to serve various collieries and the rich agricultural land in the Towy Valley . |
| 25 | Among her letters are two ‘ On her Writings being to be printed ’ . |
| 26 | Their jurors are to be assembled |
| 27 | This disparity between the evidence available to major capitalists and the beliefs they hold suggests , according to Miller , that their beliefs are to be explained in the following way : |
| 28 | Their festivals were to be a commemoration of God 's acts and even some of their clothes were to carry a reminder : ‘ Into this tassel you shall work a violet thread , and whenever you see this in the tassel , you shall remember all the Lord 's commands and obey them . ’ |
| 29 | On an appeal by the plaintiff the Court of Appeal held ( dismissing the appeal ) that in so far as the rules of the club provided that two of its officers were to be responsible in law for the conduct of the club then ( in the absence of an express provision that the officers were responsible for the condition of the club premises ) the rules did not give rise to a duty of care towards individual members to maintain the club premises in a reasonable state of safety and repair . |
| 30 | Later , in Parts II and III of this book , I will show how this analysis illuminates the debate between holists and individualists and the question of exactly how their positions are to be distinguished . |