Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] be [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I speak from the heart here , as it so happens that my sister is to be married this month and my mother is trying her hardest to organise the wedding that we ( never mind my sister and fiancé , these things are family affairs ) , want . |
| 2 | I really needed a rest and my hope was to be fit for the start of the National League programme at the end of September , but I doubt if that will be the case . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | My fears were to be unfounded as the nurse chatted to me and before could stop fantasizing about women in uniform the needle was in and the blood was pumping . |
| 5 | And how does the economy determine which instance is to be dominant ? |
| 6 | This irony was only accentuated by the refugees ' initial belief that their exile was to be brief , a few days perhaps , at most a month , after which — in the manner of other civilians who had abandoned their homes in the midst of battle — they would return to their houses and fields to resume the life which had been interrupted by war . |
| 7 | Nor , conversely , does it aspire to art-pop status , because its aim is to be truthful to its mediocre soul . |
| 8 | How can a child feel able to tell , and have confidence in those who say they have their ‘ best interests ’ in mind , when the person they have named as their abuser is to be involved in everything that then happens to them ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In 1917 the British government set up a new department of overseas trade designed to bring commerce and foreign policy into more effective contact : its head was to be responsible to both the foreign secretary and the president of the board of trade . |
| 11 | But she made it clear their relationship was to be platonic . |
| 12 | At first its role was to be consultative . |
| 13 | As far as government backbenchers are concerned , their instructions are to be present at these committees but it is hoped that they will be silent as each speech only adds that much longer to the proceedings . |
| 14 | Their permeable skins , however , still dictate that their surroundings are to be moist if the animals are to avoid death by desiccation . |
| 15 | Then two of the girls , Alexandra Saunders and Karen Holt , their project was to be literary agents and find a publisher for it . ’ |
| 16 | But in July Mary of Guise was able to fight back more successfully , and at the end of the month the two sides made another truce , by which Edinburgh was to be free to choose its religion , and Catholic observance was not to be reinstated where it had been suppressed . |
| 17 | To be so accepting of whatever came her way was to be comfortable but also to be dead . |
| 18 | In Canon law the decision as to which services are to be used rests jointly with the incumbent and the Parochial Church Council ( Canon B.3 ) . |
| 19 | All this under a Tory Government which admits its PSBR is to be double that proposed a few months ago . |
| 20 | One was Augustine , whose ideas were to be fundamental in forming medieval Europe 's views on the subject . |
| 21 | The only hope we have for intervention in pop is as a visitation , a bolt of strangeness , something whose point is to be undecodable . |
| 22 | The limited category of members of Parliament whose statements are to be admissible under the rule derives from Lord Browne-Wilkinson 's belief that ‘ in the case of statements made in Parliament , as at present advised I can not foresee that any statement other than the statement of the minister or other promoter of the Bill is likely to meet these criteria ’ . |
| 23 | The Yanks , whose aim is to be great World Cup hosts rather than realistic trophy contenders next summer , hardly dared to dream that they might equal their famous 1950 win over Walter Winterbottom 's star-studded side led by Billy Wright . |
| 24 | The well-known story of Curzon 's Tuesday summons from Montacute to London , of his confident and much-photographed arrival , first at Paddington Station and then at Carlton House Terrace , followed by the crushing blow delivered to him that afternoon when Stamfordham called at his house and told him Baldwin was to be Prime Minister , was not therefore a sudden snatching from his hands of the steadily earned and well-deserved prize , but more the last rather overdramatized act of a tragi-comedy which had been played out in varying forms since his appointment as Viceroy of India in 1898 . |
| 25 | His wish was to be alone in the deserts of ocean , as others crave the solitude of deserts of sand . |
| 26 | Although Batty is my favourite player probably I would say his form is the least ‘ inspirational ’ , and yet I think his role is to be solid and dependable … so I reckon he is still doing his job and I also do nt see anyone doing it better . |
| 27 | The nationalists strengthened their position until the British admiral commanding the naval force at Alexandria decided that he must destroy its fortifications if his ships were to be safe . |
| 28 | However , his success was to be short-lived . |
| 29 | Nobody can seriously propose that all promises should become enforceable ; to abolish the doctrine of consideration , therefore , is simply to require the Courts to begin all over again the task of deciding what promises are to be enforceable . |
| 30 | One issue will be what interest is to be payable on the retention monies . |