Example sentences of "[noun] [unc] [noun] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even before I had learned to walk my eldest sister used to dump me in an orange box on the pavement next to Granpa 's pitch just to be sure I could start my apprenticeship early . |
| 2 | The contemporary historian John Manningham relates that it was the Queen 's wish not to be so treated and that this was obeyed , her body being ‘ … wrapt up in cerecloth , and that very ill too ’ . |
| 3 | Where the original tenant is not required to provide a guarantor but the alienation provisions permit the landlord to require a guarantor on an assignment if it is reasonable to do so , some landlords and tenants prefer the form of the guarantor 's covenants not to be set out in the lease but to rely upon what is reasonable at the time of the assignment , presumably to ensure that the state of the art is employed . |
| 4 | It was Ellie Milligan 's intention never to be caught crying in public again . |
| 5 | The most significant element of TML 's work still to be completed is commissioning , which includes the design and installation of a complex and comprehensive software system for all data control and transmissions networks . |
| 6 | Also strewn across the complicated ceiling with the prism ports , obscuring whole sections of the barrelled structure , fume ducts writhed like immense square-flanked metal snakes , their grilled , barred mouths sucking the kitchens ' vapours away to be vented high in some converted turret . |
| 7 | I asked why should I bother to do that when presumably if I had set the trap I would expect Harry 's car still to be there after the races , and he just wrote down my answer as if I 'd made a confession . ’ |
| 8 | These include the specialist locating devices that enable the ferret 's progress underground to be monitored and its exact position to be discovered . |
| 9 | The most telling point against Janette Richardson 's methodical interpretation may well be that no commercial benefits to the merchant can be imputed to his generosity and hospitality towards the monk ; the monk is invited to his house simply " " to pleye … in alle wise " " , " to have fun in every way " ( 59 – 61 ) , and is able to borrow a hundred francs from the merchant even at a time when cash in hand would be particularly useful to him in his business ( 255 – 92 ) : this , significantly , is the immediate context of the merchant 's reflection : Derek Pearsall nicely describes the poignant ambivalence of a single action that is motivated simultaneously by instinctive self-interest and by the " " inner springs " " of human virtue in the Shipman 's merchant 's desire both to be and to be recognized as generous . |
| 10 | It is the firm 's policy not to be associated with any published document which is false or misleading . |
| 11 | I had with the permission of the deputy general secretary leave of conference yesterday I was in London to be told of a further nine hundred redundancies from a company that a short time ago was telling us , and if you look at my report you 'll have to delete the first paragraph where they had secured orders and the security of our members ' employment only to be told yesterday , nine hundred will go . |
| 12 | That bitch 's turn now to be superseded ! |
| 13 | Now I understood Francis 's will not to be so simple a matter , also that he had believed I knew about it . |
| 14 | We want our pupils ' time here to be an exciting period of hard work and play , and of discovery about ideas and feelings . |
| 15 | Expect BT 's application quietly to be dropped once the deal has gone through . |
| 16 | ‘ She did n't say that , ’ he replied , the ebullience with which he 'd set out for the Greens ' household nowhere to be seen . |
| 17 | The veteran Shankill councillor was set to become the first outgoing Lord Mayor in Belfast 's history not to be re-elected . |
| 18 | If he loses , he will be the first sitting mayor in Belfast 's history not to be re-elected . |
| 19 | If he loses , he will be the first sitting mayor in Belfast 's history not to be re-elected . |