Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] be [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She arranged for me to be companion to an old lady , the mother of a friend of theirs , for an hour or two a day . |
| 2 | Alas , it is not given to most of us to be sort of genius Edgar Allan Poe was ( most of the time ) , or even to be able to walk in his footsteps like Conan Doyle , G.K. Chesterton , Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie , with those steps getting fainter and fainter along the way . |
| 3 | Now that she 's been nominated for an Oscar , it would be natural for there to be competition between them . |
| 4 | N may be too large for there to be room for that number of add instructions to be held economically in the store , or the value of N may not be known when the program is being prepared ( for example it might be read in as a piece of data ) . |
| 5 | It is by no means rare for there to be confusion about whether or not a dismissal has actually taken place . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've no idea how much it means to me to be part of all this . ’ |
| 7 | He 's too like , the signs are too many on him to be son to any other man . |
| 8 | It is incumbent on us to be part of this assistance , whether it be financial , practical or political . |
| 9 | Take-up has stemmed partly from the wish of those companies trading internationally and particularly in the highly litigious US to protect their directors and partly because , as Willis Corroon 's Drew Hardie said , ‘ when directors who had had this cover then moved to other companies they asked for it to be part of their new contract ’ . |
| 10 | For this reason , among others , we must reject A. W. Schlegel 's interpretation of the chorus as the " ideal spectator " there being originally no spectacle for it to be spectator of . |
| 11 | Sheriff Michael Munro imposed bail conditions forbidding Cowans from going within half a mile of the Timex factory at Harrison Road and preventing him from approaching anyone known or believed by him to be member of the new Timex workforce . |