Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] be [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | HAVING ducked the bullets once , Dennis Conner must do so again today if Stars & Stripes is not to be eliminated from the America 's Cup defenders ' trials in a sudden-death sail-off against Bill Koch 's Kanza . |
| 2 | There were no signposts and maps were not to be trusted , but the greatest hazard he encountered was a swarm of locusts which had taken possession of five miles of the road . |
| 3 | This year 's Climb for the World weekend in early June dawned misty and rainy but thousands of walkers and climbers were not to be put off . |
| 4 | Christmas trees decorated by lights and ornaments are also to be found in many homes . |
| 5 | A diet high in fresh fruit and vegetables is obviously to be recommended as it encourages digestion and elimination . |
| 6 | Most long-firm fraudsters manage quite successfully in prison , although its entertainments and amenities are hardly to their taste … |
| 7 | The publicists , popularisers and ideologists were now to be found throughout the western world and wherever there was a local elite attracted by ‘ modernisation ’ . |
| 8 | Details of the arrangement between the government and insurers are still to be finalised . |
| 9 | But if this is a mistake and animals are properly to be understood as primitive beings , at least as different from us as they are similar , then their modest entitlement to humane treatment , accorded them by common sense and enshrined in the law , might well be vindicated . |
| 10 | Attitudinal justifications and criticisms are not to be seen as epiphenomena , tacked onto some more basic psychological predisposition , but are integral to attitudes qua attitudes . |
| 11 | But family life and obligations were not to her liking , and she left home whenever she could afford to do so . |
| 12 | Juries were to deal with serious criminal cases , elected justices of the peace were to hear minor criminal and civil cases , and trials were henceforth to be held in public . |
| 13 | Changes to other designs and associations are thus to be restricted and controlled by an upwards reporting and authorization procedure . |
| 14 | And each work area needs careful thought to ensure that all necessary equipment and ingredients are conveniently to hand . |
| 15 | Dictionaries and encyclopedias are usually to be found in this section . |
| 16 | Linnaeus devised a kind of Latin suitable for concise descriptions : animals and plants were not to be written up in flowery language , but in sentences containing many adjectives and few verbs . |
| 17 | There are certain bars where artists and writers are always to be seen , talking animatedly as they set the world to rights . |
| 18 | Excessive and lustful kissing , lustful embraces , suggestive postures and gestures are not to be shown . |
| 19 | Grief and tears are not to be seen as special experiences , only to be used at great and solemn moments . |
| 20 | If parents and governors are now to be involved , this may make sex education even more complicated as teachers try to accommodate a variety of differing moral views on what should be taught . |
| 21 | She calmed down , and told me that she had a sudden impression , walking across the little valley , of women and children in great danger ; nothing else , but a terrible feeling that women and children were about to be harmed . |
| 22 | By 1957–58 only a quarter of male students were manual workers and men were down to 42% of the total student body . |
| 23 | Some youngish trees which are damaging the bridge have been removed and others are still to be removed . |
| 24 | We shall be trying to get tickets for Phantom of the Opera , but details are still to be confirmed , as it is still a very popular show . |