Example sentences of "[pers pn] to be [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I now declare you to be members of the Elect to be initiated into the Sacred Ministries at the next Easter Vigil ’ |
| 2 | Think how you would feel if you were asked : " I 'd like you to be slaves in the hold of a sailing ship . " |
| 3 | Even if I did not like you very much , I should still want you to be manageress of the Maison de Verveine in London . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | As early as 1889 , Joseph Houghton Spencer plotted lines through churches , barrows , beacon sites and fragments of path , considering them to be remnants of a system of ancient signal stations . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He had little formal education , but his Christian conviction ideally qualified him to be apprentice to the Reverend Arthur Hird , who worked on Hodder 's religious publishing . |
| 8 | An anti-Christian riot ( 215 ) made him take refuge in Palestine ; but the bishop of Alexandria , Demetrius , recalled him to be head of the catechetical school ( 217 ) . |
| 9 | The fourth to be hurt , while Victoria Sanchez waited patiently on the sidelines , knowing that one day Miguel would realise how much he loved her and wanted her to be mistress of the Casa Madrid . |
| 10 | Cleo had never really thought about how she might spend the money , other than considering it to be insurance against the unlikely events of Wakelate either casting her off or dying and leaving her penniless . |
| 11 | Britain in 1918 was deeply impressed with the strategic and military contribution made by those nations to victory in Europe and assumed it to be proof of the success of the Canadian model , to which the second Labour Government in 1931 gave statutory form , rather like catching moonbeams , by declaring in the Statute of Westminster preamble that the common identity of the sovereign was of the essence . |
| 12 | What is more , the same conduct may be subjected to a series of different interpretations as subsequent events show it to be part of a pattern of conduct or as an isolated instance , as implicating a wider or narrower range of social relationships , and so on . |
| 13 | The house wore a permanently uncompleted air as if , sixty years before , the builder had intended it to be part of a pair of semi-detached houses but had run out of money or enthusiasm before he started on the second one . |
| 14 | Alington allowed him and two other canons to introduce the daily sacrament on condition that they did not expect it to be part of the cathedral 's official usage . |