Example sentences of "[be] [prep] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As I say , this is supposed to be Top Secret , but you 'd better know if you 're to be any help . |
| 2 | It is a threat because the Government have sat back willingly and said that they do not care if another 30 million tonnes of coal is taken out of the take and if there are to be gas-fired power stations . |
| 3 | There are to be different banding systems for Scotland , Wales and England to take account of the fact that they are separate nations . |
| 4 | You need to learn to handle it for at least three minutes if you are to be any good at negotiations . |
| 5 | ‘ Two small sections of Wychwood are to be left standing . |
| 6 | PLANS for one of the most ambitious civil engineering projects envisaged for the North West are to be left gathering dust . |
| 7 | PLANS for one of the most ambitious civil engineering projects envisaged for the North West are to be left gathering dust . |
| 8 | The second is , if there are to be intensive care units , what share of resources should they have ? |
| 9 | The tuners are Jackson-stamped Gotohs and have proved in the past to be man enough for the job , relegated as they are to being mere anchor points for the strings , taking into account the Floyd Rose licensed tremolo employed here . |
| 10 | The only enterprises to be excluded from this plan were to be geothermal power stations , the central airport , and " possibly " the railways and other important national facilities . |
| 11 | To start with , there were to be 80 attainment targets per child , and the tests were to take 30 hours . |
| 12 | There were to be many success stories in the world of Light Entertainment , Current Affairs , Documentary , Drama , schools and children 's programming and regional programmes , including of course Central News . |
| 13 | The components used were to be 1 litre of Siporax , plastic media ( Flocor ) and open cell foam . |
| 14 | The outcome of the exercise in the White Paper , I think , had three main parts : one was a new think-tank , the Central Policy Review Staff , which presumably reflected some of the stuff you 'd seen in the United States at Rand and so on ; the other was a new system of , I suppose you would call it , zero-based budgeting , where you would look at longstanding government commitments and see if they should stagger on — that was Programme Analysis and Review ; and , to reduce the weight on Cabinet , there were to be big conglomerate departments , which led to the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of the Environment . |
| 15 | Going along the road , er on the A Nineteen , from the north towards er the village er if one assumed that there were to be some development on site D forty , would you be able to see it from the road ? |
| 16 | There were to be twenty-five surface ships , each armed with eight Polaris missiles . |
| 17 | It is about outfoxing your opponent , about leading defenders into false positions … it is about being one step ahead' |
| 18 | It is about being one step ahead . ’ |
| 19 | John Upson says that it 's like being Managing Director of a good team . |
| 20 | ‘ If it 's to be unlawful restraint , I need you . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's to be another expedition that will start then . |
| 22 | Er and that did underline er we feel at the moment that we 're not being listened to by the , how important it would be , it is , erm if there 's to be any kind of inter village , |
| 23 | Mrs Ashton is a friend of Mr MacConachie 's bank manager , Mr David France , of the High Row branch of Barclays in Darlington , and he is to be best man . |
| 24 | There are and will be additional costs arising from the existence of JAA , not because the same job is being done twice , but because there is a need , if there is to be wide applicability , to ensure that common standards are being applied . |
| 25 | The Yanks , whose aim is to be great World Cup hosts rather than realistic trophy contenders next summer , hardly dared to dream that they might equal their famous 1950 win over Walter Winterbottom 's star-studded side led by Billy Wright . |
| 26 | There is to be greater press freedom . |
| 27 | If it is your mother-in-law who has come to live with you , even greater efforts will usually be required on both sides if there is to be peaceful co-existence , for this is always a challenging relationship ( there are not too many Ruths and Naomis around ) . |
| 28 | If there is to be live filming of an event as an outside broadcast the technicians will soon enough explain the facilities which they will need for lighting , position of cameras and so on . |
| 29 | And there 's the question of how much of it is to be real life , for those in it , and how much will have to be some kind of fiction , or simulation , where the risks are too great or the technologies not yet available . |
| 30 | This is to be one bit of TV where the only censor is to be the channel selector . |