Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [be] [adv] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lady Sylvestre , was a grand niece of John Fisher , Bishop of Rochester and two of her sons were later to be knighted , William Dalison , by her first marriage , and Multon Lambarde . |
| 2 | The tendency of a work to deprave or corrupt its readers was henceforth to be judged in the light of its total impact , rather than by the arousing potential of " purple passages " . |
| 3 | Their influence is yet to be fully evaluated . |
| 4 | In Prussia the agricultural crisis was to reach its climax in the 1880s and 1890s , but its effects were still to be seen and felt well into the twentieth century . |
| 5 | Her husband was nowhere to be seen . |
| 6 | Their predecessors are still to be found , sometimes cheaply with those who do not know their true significance and worth . |
| 7 | But when Katherine came to dress for the party , her dress was nowhere to be found in her wardrobe . |
| 8 | Like the regulationist school , however , this view of long waves would stress that the fifth wave is as yet only embryonic and its form is still to be determined . |
| 9 | The Romans found the Dalmatian environment congenial , and the traces of their colonisation are still to be found in coastal cities such as Zadar , Šibenik and , above all , Split . |
| 10 | The basis of future regional policy and its instruments was eventually to be found in the Thompson Report ( 1973 ) on the regional problems of the enlarged EC , which reaffirmed the view that in the long term , monetary union was not possible without an effective regional policy . |
| 11 | French architectural styles at home , the desirability of French education for Scots abroad , military and economic ties , all combined to produce the feeling that even if a French upbringing for their monarch was only to be countenanced because of the extreme dangers created by the Rough Wooing , it was not unnatural in the way that an English upbringing would have been . |
| 12 | Hagar and her son are indeed to be cast out , and God explains the place their banishment will take in his larger purposes . |
| 13 | His job is also to be friendly to you , to smile at you , you know , when you want it , so it 's not really an equal relationship . |
| 14 | Although Edward apparently promised him the captaincy of Berwick in September 1319 , during the English siege of the town , and grants continued to come his way during 1320 , his allegiance was soon to be severed by the ambitions of Despenser , whose attempts in 1320–1 to enlarge his share of the Gloucester inheritance in south Wales raised the whole march against him . |
| 15 | However lukewarm the feelings of the citizens of York towards their southern overlord , his officers were there to be obeyed . |
| 16 | Powerful and famous gentlemen became regular visitors to the house — including , I remember , figures such as Lord Daniels , Professor Maynard Keynes , and Mr H. G. Wells , the renowned author , as well as others who , because they came ‘ off the record ’ , I should not name here — and they and his lordship were often to be found locked in discussion for hours on end . |
| 17 | A priori then , it would seem that Ho Chi Minh and his government were only to be regarded as an extension of Soviet power ; an assumption that was to be reinforced by the second constraint which originated in the Department of State . |
| 18 | His fingerprints are also to be found on the introduction of the hated social fund . |
| 19 | There he worked on the unfashionable inorganic chemistry ; his science was always to be on the boundary of physics and chemistry . |
| 20 | His autobiography is shortly to be published and its timing is impeccable . |
| 21 | As González remarks , ‘ Given the Guatemalan precedent [ in 1954 the CIA organised the overthrow of left-wing President Arbenz ] [ Castro ] may therefore have calculated that if his regime was inevitably to be labelled as ‘ Communist ’ , he had everything to gain by moving closer to the Cuban Communists who could serve as brokers in obtaining indispensable Soviet assistance' ( González : 1968 , p. 48 ) . |
| 22 | Also the first time you realised how unlikely your crime was ever to be discovered . |
| 23 | But all our resources are there to be used . |
| 24 | Our daughter is soon to be married and I shall be giving her away , but she would like both her stepfather and myself to speak at the reception . |
| 25 | Your dad is soon to be a tenant farmer . |