Example sentences of "[noun] in an [noun sg] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local employers and employees , unions and other statutory bodies were involved in this work in an attempt to be better prepared for the crisis . |
| 2 | I offer one or two possible explanations in an attempt to be generous to the Government . |
| 3 | She taught her how to write her name , how to put the paper in an envelope to be posted to Gloria . |
| 4 | In a war-time article on Smollett he remarked that several writers had recently tried to ‘ revive the picaresque tradition ’ , instancing Waugh and Aldous Huxley — adding that the experiment had not been entirely happy , if only because they had betrayed a sense of strain in an effort to be shocking . |
| 5 | E.g. it is reasonable to expect all pipes and tanks in an attic to be lagged ; when a property is to be unoccupied for a period particularly over the winter months , all water tanks , pipes , etc should be drained and adequate heating provided . |