Example sentences of "[pers pn] are [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are to finish any piece of woodwork you must learn to live with faults and find ways to disguise them . |
| 2 | The commissioners ' Instructions to the Watch in 1817 were similar : ‘ You are to apprehend all night-walkers , rogues , vagabonds , and other disorderly persons , disturbing the public … you must be very circumspect … and not wantonly or inconsiderately apprehend persons of a different description . ’ |
| 3 | She had been so deeply involved with her own emotions that she had lost the imaginative sense that is necessary if you are to see other people as independent entities , locked in their private worlds . |
| 4 | I believe that an element of local knowledge is essential if you are to acquire maximum enjoyment from this volume . |
| 5 | It is a must if you are to play good golf , and I suggest you learn it . |
| 6 | If you are to have one set of valuable notes , do n't lend them even to friends ! |
| 7 | The clearer you are about your behavioural rights the better prepared you are to handle tricky situations assertively . |
| 8 | And then ri , down a bit further in verse eleven , pass through the midst of the camp and command the people say , preva , prepare provisions for yourself , for within three days you are to cross this Jordan to go in and possess the land which the Lord , your God , is giving you to possess it . |
| 9 | The more overweight you are the more likely you are to get high blood pressure and diabetes . |
| 10 | Bring in related work experience with the emphasis on how quick you are to learn new skills . |
| 11 | However , it must be stressed that you must still practise the manoeuvre if you are to stand any chance of success in an emergency situation . |
| 12 | While there are good ideas tumbling from your head , you 'll need to slow them down if you are to make any use of them . |
| 13 | If we are to take this speech as accurate reportage within the conventions of deathbed narratives , is there not something a little remarkable in Leapor 's assuring her friend and patron that she has always loved her father , though never so much as now , when she is dying ? |
| 14 | ‘ Please get stationery ready , Matron has been told we are to take another batch of severely wounded soldiers . |
| 15 | Clearly , if we are to explain such interpretation we will need more than our list of cohesive devices . |
| 16 | Clearly , if we are to explain such interpretation we will need more than our list of cohesive devices . |
| 17 | If we are to combat any attempt of the Right to exploit issues involving sexuality in order to hang onto power , we can not afford to neglect the virtue of solidarity — which involves a certain restraint concerning our feelings bout what other people do in bed . |
| 18 | I hope that my hon. Friend agrees that , if , we are to stop young people inhaling smoke unintentionally and passively in public places such as restaurants and railway carriages , the physical segregation between areas where people are allowed to smoke and those where they are not must be far better . |
| 19 | If we are to evaluate complementary medicine properly , he says , there are several separate questions that must be asked . |
| 20 | Clearly , profit-related pay is extremely important if we are to stimulate higher-quality jobs , greater commitment to employment and more jobs . |
| 21 | An understanding of the processes involved in ‘ choice ’ and participation is essential if we are to include more girls , and members of other disadvantaged groups , and alienate fewer . |
| 22 | We must expand the breadth of political argument if we are to claim political integrity as a distinct ideal on its own . |
| 23 | If we are to see evolutionary processes in action in plant communities and the proximal events determining their character we must focus our attention away from an anthropomorphic scale of acres or square metres and onto a scale appropriate to the organisms with which we are concerned . |
| 24 | So , a 1 metre ( 39in ) parachute has a circumference of 314cm ( 123in ) and , if we are to use 14 gores , then each must be 22.4cm ( 8¾in ) wide at the base plus the hem which will be about 1 cm or 0.4in . |
| 25 | Ms Patti White , of the Health Education Authority , said : ‘ If we are to promote better health in the whole population , not merely the most fortunate , we must radically rethink our current health initiatives . |
| 26 | It is to be hoped that schools in the independent sector will recognise how vital these principles are if we are to promote true peace and co-operation in British society . |
| 27 | We are to christen this child Pilade , being the name of Ferdinando 's maternal grandfather whom he wishes to honour . |
| 28 | If we are to control all variables , we have to set up a totally artificial situation . |
| 29 | Science as it is presented in schools , he argues , seems irrelevant to most 13–16-year-olds , and if we are to recruit more pupils into scientific careers , then science should be shown to have some relationship to the issues that concern them . |
| 30 | If we are to overcome this sort of problem in future we must put even greater resources into British Rail to safeguard trains , crews and passengers . |