Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun] be [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most obvious , though inadequate , analogy I could think of for my situation was to be a light-skinned black person who identified with white people all her life , who had ‘ passed ’ as a white person for years and who had suddenly discovered the reality of Black Power . |
| 2 | The warrants for their arrest were to be issued on 16 June , and widespread strikes became imminent . |
| 3 | And the substance of my apprehension is to be found in the formidable dossiers of attainment which have been catalogued in numerous obituaries over the past week . |
| 4 | The interior of my mind was to be shaped according to his merchandising plan , with circular display racks of concepts standing in aisles of cogitation , flanked by long shelves groaning with brightly coloured little ideas . |
| 5 | Er , speaking of accountants , I must tell you that one of the perks of my job is to be able to get out and about in the real world , to real companies , meeting real people . |
| 6 | The afore-mentioned tendency of writers to insist on the fictionality of their work is to be understood partly in the context of the attitude here expressed by Borges . |
| 7 | The pattern of their relationship was to be repeated in many of the ‘ chance-started friendships ’ which Coleridge formed in later years . |
| 8 | If survivors into the ninth and tenth decades of their lives are to be adequately served , it must be at the expense of younger generations . |
| 9 | Netherlandish painters were favoured in Prague too and several of their works are to be found in the collection . |
| 10 | Now further recognition of their feats is to be paid in style and already arrangements are at an advanced stage . |
| 11 | He was free to lay down what proportion of their produce was to be made over to him , and how many days in the week they were to work the fields he set aside for his own use . |
| 12 | It is nonetheless an unavoidable predicament for those working in the field of arts education to encounter if their aim to encourage both the personal and social enrichment of their pupils is to be fulfilled . |
| 13 | Some of its effects were to be much condemned . |
| 14 | On an appeal by the plaintiff the Court of Appeal held ( dismissing the appeal ) that in so far as the rules of the club provided that two of its officers were to be responsible in law for the conduct of the club then ( in the absence of an express provision that the officers were responsible for the condition of the club premises ) the rules did not give rise to a duty of care towards individual members to maintain the club premises in a reasonable state of safety and repair . |
| 15 | Two solicitors challenged this decision but the House of Lords held that since , in administering the scheme , the Society was acting in a public capacity in the interests of all solicitors and members of the public who employed them , the legality of its decision was to be judged according to principles of public law , not private law ; and so judged , what the Society had done was a proper use of its statutory powers . |
| 16 | Indeed , if the message of its architecture is to be taken at all at face value , it was a city in which the factions did not follow conventional lines at all . |
| 17 | In the early days of radio the major part of its audience was to be found in the urban areas and among the better educated , and programmes tended to be created with this in mind . |
| 18 | Part of its roots are to be found in the building trade co-operatives of the mid-19th century , which produced such developments as the Colonies in Stockbridge with entrances for different floors on opposite sides of the block . |
| 19 | But the civil servants have been vague when it comes to the detail of who is to be the competent authority , who is to foot the bill for its work ( and any extra studies it may require before giving consent ) , and how much of its deliberations are to be made public . |
| 20 | Although Sugar 's war was now over , the sound of her engines were to be heard over Europe on many more occasions over the next few weeks . |
| 21 | She had stipulated — a stipulation which was upheld — that part of her fortune was to be spent teaching the people of Ireland ‘ self-control , elocution , oratory and deportment ’ . |
| 22 | Gould still intended to do a lot of collecting on the Yarrundi-side of the Liverpool Range , but the main focus of his efforts was to be across the mountains , on the remote plains around the Namoi and Mokai rivers , an area of the interior that few settlers had yet penetrated . |
| 23 | Knowledge of his locality was to be a great boon in 1749 when , as master of The American ( owned by Christopher Scott , a Hull merchant ) , he was able to recognize the coastline at Nantucket after a severe storm had blown the vessel off course . |
| 24 | ‘ to provide the laws under which the object of his charity was to be governed and to be sole judge of the interpretation and application of those laws either by himself or by such person as he should appoint as a visitor … ’ |
| 25 | Deric Longden 's story of his wife 's ME and his wonderful portrait of his mother are to be televised as ‘ Wide-eyed and Legless ’ in a two and half hour film . |
| 26 | Portraiture has played an important part in Williams 's work and in 1993 an exhibition of his portraits is to be held in Anglesey . |
| 27 | As regards contracts of employment , it is provided that he is to be liable on any contract of employment adopted by him but nothing he does or omits to do in the first 14 days of his appointment is to be taken as adoption of the contract . |
| 28 | Haig won his point , although the scale of his attacks was to be reduced . |
| 29 | Clear and unequivocal English is a necessity if the sense of your report is to be incontrovertible . |
| 30 | Furthermore , a common provision in such agreements is that all documents , copies of documents and extracts of documents obtained during the course of our work are to be returned if the transaction does not proceed . |