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Example sentences of "[pron] is [to-vb] any [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	One is to eliminate any badgers with TB and for this much hope is pinned on the development of a test for TB which can be done on live badgers .
2	This will be essential if one is to have any hope of detecting the much lower fluorescence levels .
3	Each team is composed of a group of people from a particular ‘ faulty ’ area , whose task it is to resolve any problems once and for all .
4	The profession will have to take positive steps if it is to make any progress in bridging the expectation gap .
5	If we can not win that support , we may as well go out of business , and it is our duty now at all events to make the best of the situation which has arisen and to see that everything is done to make our Party what Disraeli called it — and what , if it is to have any existence , It must be — a really national party .
6	The more complex professional action becomes , the less likely it is to have any effect .
7	Propaganda , if it is to have any effect at all , must have some basis in truth .
8	The bodily expression of inner distress needs a framework of bonds between people if it is to have any meaning .
9	Therefore , will not there be a need for radical changes in the United Nations if it is to maintain any confidence and respect throughout the world ?
10	It concerns certain members of this class , four to be precise , but it will , if it is to stand any chance of success , require the support of every one of you , of every one in the school , in fact .
11	Some records are worthy of special comment at the beginning of this chapter for they are sources that every family and local historian must learn to use straight away if he is to gain any understanding of the period before the Industrial Revolution .
12	This exists simply because he must necessarily reveal aspects of a closed and somewhat secretive society to the outside if he is to pursue any ethnography at all .