Example sentences of "be to [be] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they know they 'll have to unite behind the new one if they 're to be a force at the next General Election . |
| 2 | A new little contraption we want to try out , so you 're to be a guinea pig . |
| 3 | ‘ Then I 'm to be a spectator , ’ she said . |
| 4 | So my mother said , Oh well yes if that 's what you want me to be to be a servant . |
| 5 | Oh how wonderful it must be to be an indie musician ! |
| 6 | My one ambition had been to be a pro , and I got to ten handicap . |
| 7 | There are to be a total of 30 new marinas , eight more casinos , nine new golf courses . |
| 8 | You must make your own if you are to be a Lapp . |
| 9 | Allowance will be made for contingencies , but these are to be the exception rather than the rule . |
| 10 | COACH travellers are to be the subject of a study to find out what causes motion sickness among passengers in road vehicles . |
| 11 | GRE also announced that its Lytham and Edinburgh offices are to be the subject of a six-month operating review to improve efficiency . |
| 12 | More radical action by companies may be required if audit committees are to be the agent of real improvement in standards of corporate governance . |
| 13 | If your notes are to be the product of analytical thought , rather than a mere prelude to it , it is essential that you always review your reading . |
| 14 | The forests of the Western Ghats , a mountainous region in Karnataka state in south-western India , are to be the focus of an ambitious conservation programme , launched by the Karnataka Forest Department with the support of the UK 's Overseas Development Administration ( ODA ) . |
| 15 | In other long-established deaf centres , members began to arrange day outings now that omnibuses were more readily available , and these were to be a feature of deaf life in the next few decades . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | If fundholders were to be a lever for change in the reorganised National Health Service there is evidence from this study that they are achieving this objective . |
| 18 | The new charters were to be a staging post . |
| 19 | If moreover there were to be a case of parthenogenesis , the resulting foetus would be female , for there would be no ‘ Y ’ chromosome present ! |
| 20 | " Even if this were to be a case of maternal transmission , it would have no significance for public health " . |
| 21 | If there were to be a reduction in the mark-up , then this would further reinforce the effect . |
| 22 | Dossy 's earliest ambitions were to be a writer after he was told at school that he had literary talent . |
| 23 | He had only been a stop-gap , to fill in after Father Collins 's long , thirty-five-year ministry and the appointment of a permanent successor , if there were to be a successor . |
| 24 | There were to be a lot of evacuations in the coming years , by land , sea and air , each accompanied by promises from departing residents that their absence would only be temporary . |
| 25 | The next few decades were to be a period of accelerating changes for the mills of the area as Hicks , who in 1806 became Lord of the Manor , systematically extended his empire . |
| 26 | In this respect , as in others , the 1290s were to be a period of crisis and change which was to make an impact on Anglo-French relations . |
| 27 | If there were to be a failure in maintaining this conquest , the ‘ livelihood ’ of these people would be at stake . |
| 28 | The details of William Joyce 's birth were to be a matter of life and death to him during the autumn of 1945 . |
| 29 | If there were to be a programme of comparable generosity to the new democracies , it would be necessary to reduce some category of expenditure within the industrial countries . |
| 30 | But the shadows that were deepening over Europe were reaching out to " change everything " in lives across the world , and the Burrows family were to be no exception . |