Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun pl] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is safe to say that Hans Haacke is the least likely of all artists ever to be commissioned to design a presidential memorial ( though one day he may himself be memorialised as founder of the Academy of Anti-Establishment Art ) . |
| 2 | Some , of course , deny that such purity of method is possible but few would argue with the proposition that where a description of law is coloured by the expositor 's own values it is a virtue for these values explicitly to be registered . |
| 3 | But representatives from AFHQ were to visit Eighth Army on 25 May , which would give an opportunity for these conflicts finally to be resolved . |
| 4 | With some votes still to be counted , the coalition had won around 44 per cent of the 3,600,000 votes cast , a fall in support of some 5 per cent compared with the election of 1988 . |
| 5 | From the beginning of the fourth year , and especially for as long as pupils were legally free to leave school at the end of that year , very much more definite choices were made : ‘ Newsom ’ courses for those who were to leave , examination courses for most of the rest , with many decisions then to be taken about which subjects to drop , and which to pursue . |
| 6 | The 1960 were , as we can see now , in some ways rightly to be thought of as a time of indulgence . |
| 7 | So erm can you tell us what proportion of the work erm had been completed before prices were fixed erm for those packages that have been an and also what proportion of the work has been completed on those packages yet to be priced . |
| 8 | Characteristics of groups , like the characteristics of species , are thus considered by most theorists today to be the result of the selection of genes as they manifest themselves in the individuals comprising populations ( G. C. Williams 1966 ; Lewontin 1970 ; E. O. Wilson 1975 ) . |