Example sentences of "are [pron] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How determined are you to make the Department of Transport see your point of view ? |
| 2 | ‘ Who are we to defy the gods ? |
| 3 | For example , if the only way to be a subject is to be constituted by the existing ISAs , how are we to explain the fact that a theorist such as Connolly is so convinced of the necessity of intentional subjecthood , while Althusser views it as a contingency ? |
| 4 | For example , if Keith destroys ten brick towers and stabs six dolls with a plastic sword during his play therapy and subsequently attacks only one child during one day at nursery school , are we to record the number of towers , the number of stabs or the number of attacks ? |
| 5 | Are we to replace the sands of Maplin with concrete plains ? |
| 6 | But how are we to sample the primaries with probability proportional to size ? |
| 7 | How then are we to view the procedure ? |
| 8 | How are we to measure the quality of primary care ? |
| 9 | But even if it could , are we to outlaw the artist 's capacity to shock , to appal , to disturb profoundly in the interests of truth ? |
| 10 | But how are we to interpret the symbolism of other cultures ; how can we crack their symbolic codes ? |
| 11 | Moreover even if these sceptical grumblings are set to one side , are we to interpret the proposition that there has been a secular rise in NAIRU as pointing to a rise in the natural unemployment rate ? |
| 12 | Particularly with insects , whose chitinous exoskeletons make it difficult to consider them in anthropomorphic terms , how are we to discover the extent to which they might be acting intelligently ? |
| 13 | If the relationship between sign and reality is not natural but arbitrary , how are we to understand the sign 's ability to signify , the capacity of language to generate meaning ? |
| 14 | First , are we to regard the welfare state , which fits uneasily , if at all , into a Marxist scheme , as a new type of state , which differs in fundamental respects from the state as it existed in the laissez-faire capitalist societies of the nineteenth century ? |