Example sentences of "they [be] [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outreach approach has now been successfully attempted by many projects and institutions confirming the view of those who insist that educational institutions must be more open and outgoing if they are to provide a worthwhile community education service . |
| 2 | They can vary in length , weight and continuity , but their direction should never be in doubt , if they are to maintain a co-ordinated space and time . |
| 3 | Whatever the basis of allocation , small service points will need an additional weighting if they are to maintain a reasonable range of materials . |
| 4 | Most doctors are fairly unshockable , and they will need all the facts if they are to make a proper diagnosis . |
| 5 | They are not as swift as cheetah and have to get considerably closer , usually to within twenty yards of their target , if they are to have a reasonable chance of overtaking it when the race begins . |
| 6 | Thus the Cultural Industries , if they are to establish a stable market , are forced to create a relationship with an audience or public to whom they offer not a simple cultural good , but a cultural repertoire across which risks can be spread . |
| 7 | It may sometimes be necessary , for example , to arrange for girls to have access to the technology in single-sex groups if they are to develop a confident and active understanding of the media . |
| 8 | Teachers have found that the more solutions and strategies pupils see and discuss , the more likely they are to develop a real appreciation of mathematics at their own level . |
| 9 | They 're to have a liberal allowance of liquor . |
| 10 | Whilst such an attitude to life is clearly desirable for hunters depending on highly unreliable food resources which would soon reduce them to chronic anxiety if they were to take a less prodigal view of things , it is evidently less suitable for seasonal hunters who must store food if they are to avoid starvation . |
| 11 | If they were to appoint a knowledgeable , experienced , well-briefed David to oppose the players ' Goliath , they might not gain total victory but at least there would be a result and we could all get on with the game . |
| 12 | Palmerston tried to ensure that attachés in the missions to the German courts should at least be able to read German script ; and in the 1840s and 1850s there were efforts to send students of oriental languages from Oxford and Cambridge to Constantinople , where they were to form a new class of oriental secretaries and replace the Greek and Levantine dragomans who had for decades acted as translators and interpreters there . |
| 13 | Whatever the causes of construction delays , they were to remain a persistent and seemingly insoluble problem , not only for the electricity supply industry but for a wide range of other British industries embarking on such large capital projects for decades thereafter . |
| 14 | On the same day as Miyazawa unveiled the changes , Tsutomu Hata — Hayashi 's predecessor as Finance Minister — and a former LDP secretary-general , Ichiro Ozawa , announced that they were to establish a new faction . |
| 15 | The linguists were allowed to diminish or extinguish their study of the sciences : the scientists , if they were to maintain a full programme in three separate sciences , had no time to waste on languages . |
| 16 | While Japanese computers were hardly a factor in the boom years , they were to become a major force in the 1980s . |
| 17 | Starting at sunrise on the eve of Ascension Day , they were to cut a prescribed number of ‘ stakes , stout-stowers and yedders ’ from Strayhead Wood with ‘ a knife of a penny price ’ , and carry them on their backs to the town of Whitby . |
| 18 | They were to have a full-time , living-in servant , who would share Ruth 's bedroom , a prospect which did not please her . |
| 19 | They returned to North Coates where they were to share a rented house with another officer and his wife . |
| 20 | To import them is to take a huge risk . |
| 21 | Ogwen apprenticeships had their uses , and maybe one of them was to bestow a wider vocabulary . |