Example sentences of "are [pron] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And how , ’ demanded Hugh over his midday table , ‘ are we to take this chapter of wonders you 've been unfolding this morning ? |
| 2 | How are we to take these declarations ? |
| 3 | So how are we to reach any agreement now , at the end of the 1980s , on the function of education , what it is for , what needs it must meet ? |
| 4 | How are we to explain these cases of pattern generation within homogeneous tissues ? |
| 5 | Or are we to suppose that Capitalism having been displaced by Socialism in the Marxist version , work with all the disagreeable characteristics which turn it into toil or boredom will have been reduced to the bare minimum necessary to sustain society and that a consequent and vast increase in the leisure will enable us to fulfil ourselves ? |
| 6 | " Are we to gather that Dreadnought is asking us all to do something dishonest ? " |
| 7 | After all , who are we to disbelieve these events which have occurred in the lonely box during a night shift when the wind wailed and buffeted the timber structure ? |
| 8 | All other doctrines are very secondary to that , and the question is are we to express that reality or must we continue to obscure it . |
| 9 | Finally , I said , ‘ Well , if you will not meet Mrs Castle , how are we to make any progress ? |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , but how are we to get these facts ? ’ demanded Benedict , turning to him . |
| 11 | Others , ostensibly , are there to follow these rules . |
| 12 | Something has obviously got to be done to make sure that these simple shelters , which are there to offer overnight shelter for anyone in need of it , are not used for holiday centres and the like . |
| 13 | That is , are they to comprise entire movements , to be principal episodes , or to be only very secondary interludes ? |