Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] be [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This being a self-acting incline the empty trucks were dragged up by the full ones , the long chain or rope to which they were linked , passing , of course , around the sheaved wheel the stanchions for which are still to be seen . |
| 2 | The Percys subsequently appear as lords of Leconfield , who built an 84 roomed castle west of Main Street , the old and original part of Leconfield , surrounded by a wide and deep moat , the remains of which are still to be seen . |
| 3 | James Harris , writing in 1751 , saw that ‘ all Conversation passes between Particulars or Individuals ’ , and argued that when , at the formative stages of human language , a speaker met another whose name he did not know he addressed him by using ‘ , that is , Pointing , or Indication by the Finger or Hand , some traces of which are still to be observed as a part of that Action which naturally attends our speaking ’ . |
| 4 | The controversial duo , last seen performing with Extreme Noise Terror at the BPI awards in February , offered the following statement to NME : ‘ Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond left for Mexico City on May 5 to research a non-music project , the nature of which is yet to be disclosed . ’ |
| 5 | Over the past 18 months more than 10 cases have come to light , one of which is soon to be pursued in court . |
| 6 | He was going to make a splash the nature of which was still to be determined . |
| 7 | On July 23 , representatives of Zambia 's creditor countries , meeting in Paris , agreed in outline on a 50 per cent debt reduction scheme , the details of which were yet to be decided . |
| 8 | Tomas Llorens is made artistic director of what is now to be a Museo nacional de arte contemporaneo . |
| 9 | More deeply felt , more tendentiously extolled , and more verbose were the arguments in favour of what was really to be a new form of further education : the compulsory part-time day continuation school . |
| 10 | Allowing for a level of coding somewhere between the highly specific and detailed CODOT scheme and that of OPCS , in which are sometimes to be found rather heterogeneous categories . |
| 11 | The proclamation of Lithuania 's independence took place late on March 11 as a result of voting in what was now to be known as the Supreme Council ( Taryba ; the Russian word soviet , literally meaning " council " , was dropped ) . |
| 12 | It seems likely that as small children they stayed in the relative security of England while Henry spent most of his time abroad , immersed in what was always to be the central concern of his life , governing his continental dominions . |
| 13 | " At the east end modern windows are made to the kitchen and chamber , over which are yet to be seen part of three antient lancet windows of the chancel , the center one somewhat higher and larger than the other two ; which were before the alterations deep and narrow . |