Example sentences of "be [to-vb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time you read this ( Merry Chrimbo , by the way ! ) we will have held a social evening to welcome our new members on the 1st October , we will have been to see the chilling drama ‘ The Woman in Black ’ at the Fortune Theatre on the 19th November and we will have had Christmas drinks on the 12th December . |
| 2 | In the early days I had been a bit disappointed that the NUJ had n't immediately leapt to John 's defence , but ever since I had first been to see the General Secretary , Harry Conroy , and his assistant , Tom Nash , the union had done what it could to respond to what was asked of them . |
| 3 | The father was distraught ; he had appealed to the Prime Minister , had been to see the Foreign Secretary , he had been in fact everywhere , and finally asked Max Rayne whether he could come to see me . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You need a very powerful microscope if you are to see the fundamental crystal structure of our environment . |
| 6 | If you are to attend the monthly progress review meeting , think carefully about the end-result you wish to achieve by attending . |
| 7 | You have to know where you 're going if you are to plan the best way of getting there ! |
| 8 | The main objectives of the research are to estimate the total compliance costs of personal income tax and capital gains tax in the UK , ie the costs incurred by taxpayers over and above their tax liability . |
| 9 | But if we are to relate the romantic picture of historical generalization to the hard facts of life as it was lived , we need examples , great and small , of cities at work . |
| 10 | Accordingly , on 12 June 1940 Lord Woolton , Minister of Food , despatched a memorandum to the Food Policy Committee of the War Cabinet in which he identified three groups in the population to whom food distribution should be improved : workers in factories ( ‘ if we are to obtain the maximum production over a long period of time from them ’ ) , people on low incomes and ‘ children of school age and under and nursing mothers whom , on grounds both of humanity and of racial preservation , it is essential we should protect against malnutrition ’ . |
| 11 | One largely unforeseen consequence of rural housing policies has therefore been to increase the relative deprivation of low-paid rural workers ( and their newly married offspring ) . |
| 12 | ‘ The most critical factor in achieving this has been to establish the correct balance between the CHP units and the ( supplementing ) boiler plants and to maintain that balance , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Franco believed that one of General Primo de Rivera 's mistakes had been to establish the provisional nature of his regime at the outset . |
| 14 | The obvious impact of these principles has been to graft the legal aid scheme onto the existing structure of private practice . |
| 15 | The plan had allegedly been to bomb the main parade stand at the celebrations of Armed Forces Day on June 1 at La Coruña , and then to blame the incident on the Basque separatist organization ETA [ see below ] and to organize a military coup in the aftermath . |
| 16 | We are to find the corrected sum of squares of three numbers using the formulae |
| 17 | This is so necessary for port facilities and absolutely vital if we are to attract the long term users necessary for the prosperity and long term employment prospects of the port . |
| 18 | One of the more pleasant surprises , on a protracted visit to The Towers in January , had been to meet the new bride at the Hall . |
| 19 | ENGLAND — IF England are to reach the 1994 World Cup finals then they must see off Sepp Piontek 's Turkey in style . |
| 20 | The open days free to unwaged people ; £2.50 to others are to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the opening of Durham Street , which was the first community recording studio in the country . |
| 21 | Mr Hughes , MEP for Durham , said : ‘ Events of this sort are essential if we are to reverse the growing tide of racism and fascism sweeping Europe . |
| 22 | EVERTON must change the habit of a lifetime if they are to arrest the current slide this weekend with a victory at Nottingham Forest , writes Ken Rogers . |
| 23 | Does the Secretary of State accept that urgent action is needed in the west midlands if we are to halt the worst fall in manufacturing investment in history ? |
| 24 | Now that the objection based on shareholder rights to viewing companies as social enterprises has been removed , we can proceed to a provisional account of the objectives companies should be required to adopt if they are to serve the public interest . |
| 25 | What criteria should guide corporate decision making if companies are to serve the public interest ? |
| 26 | In the case of lawyers the standard radical approach has been to assume the theoretical need for a concept ‘ profession ’ , and then to redefine the content of this concept . |
| 27 | In the second belong a number of ‘ neo-populist ’ social historians whose primary concern has been to elucidate the distinctive structure and culture of the traditional peasant family farm . |
| 28 | Nonetheless , all teachers will need to be able to understand how language operates , if we are to avoid the widespread condemnation of ‘ improper ’ speech , beliefs that Indians speak ‘ Indian ’ ( Linguistic Minorities Project , 1985 : 322 ) , and misunderstandings of the structure of English ( Bloor , 1986 ) , etc . |
| 29 | The regress argument therefore drives us to suppose that there must be some justification which is non-inferential if we are to avoid the sceptical consequence of admitting that no beliefs are ever actually justified . |
| 30 | Nuadu was glad that he was unable to speak , for to have done so , to have uttered any kind of sound , would certainly have been to betray the utter revulsion that engulfed him . |