Example sentences of "be [to-vb] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | We gladly accept all these rightful strictures and if we are to enjoy the same success with councils we have to accept their bye-laws , too . |
2 | ‘ Their effect will be to require the same accuracy of description in relation to property sales as is already required of sellers of goods and other service providers . |
3 | To have been too radical , however , would have been to invite the same fate as the reports of previous committees . |
4 | Six other international plants are to get the same treatment , and their identities will be revealed within a week . |
5 | If the painter were to use the same intensity of blue for the sea both near and far then the effect would not be at all realistic . |
6 | However , since tests are always used by different people in different settings , it is also necessary to know something about the extent to which the same tester may achieve stable scores , when the test is given to the same person on different occasions , or the extent to which the scores from different testers would be comparable if they were to test the same individual . |
7 | One may imagine the furore if the Court of Appeal were to take the same stance in a capital case , a contingency happily remote . |
8 | Now what 's happened , what would happen if we were to follow the same type of line there would be that the airfield would stay open as if needed a small commuter airfield . |
9 | The ‘ only means of modifying what they have done is to perform the same action when next invited to do so ’ . |
10 | Are we to understand that all work , when not alienated , is to provide the same freedom for the creative development of mind and feeling as do those pursuits we may choose to follow when our time is our own ? |
11 | Radios 2 and 3 have irrevocably lost listeners now that they have been squeezed on to FM only ; so will Radio 1 , which is to meet the same fate . |
12 | If Sacu is to choose the latter road , the NSC may have to give them a clearer idea of what they will meet as they travel along it . |
13 | To argue with a Greek today is to experience the same mixture of exhilaration ( because he is so full of ideas , so quick with logic ) and exasperation ( when he slides around awkward facts ) that many a growlingly impressed Roman experienced two millennia ago . |
14 | All she is asking for , she says , is to live the same kind of life as everyone else . |
15 | The main intention is to have the former LMS locomotive restored back to full working order , hopefully in 18 months ' time . |
16 | The simple answer is to close the same eye whenever a car approaches ; that is your ‘ night eye ’ . |
17 | The Beveridge report was to breathe the same spirit of optimism and confidence that long-standing problems could be tackled . |
18 | Herbert 's career had demonstrated how valuable it was to have a focus for royal efforts in Wales and the council of the prince of Wales was to serve the same purpose in the 1470s . |
19 | Herbert 's career had demonstrated how valuable it was to have a focus for royal efforts in Wales and the council of the prince of Wales was to serve the same purpose in the 1470s . |
20 | He himself would put the fear of God into the professors of Königsberg and Breslau ; I was to do the same thing in Danzig . |
21 | However , it was to be the Elsden 's second import which was to have the most effect on the breed . |
22 | She was to have the same dream intermittently for the rest of her life . |
23 | T his new economic process , assisted by an increasing effective demand , was to have the same impact on feudal manufacturing structures as it had in agriculture — it destroyed the old order of things . |
24 | But if I was to ask the same question throughout industry today the answer would be very different . |
25 | as to who was to take the most credit . |
26 | The four-pocket blouse was to display the same shoulder straps and collar insignia as the 1895 pattern . |