Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] be [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Van Butchell was not to be gawped at . |
| 2 | James Joyce and Virginia Woolf were dead , Charles Maurras was a member of the Petain government and would soon be imprisoned for treason , Ezra Pound was about to be indicted on similar charges ( although Eliot refused to assist the Federal Bureau of Investigation in their inquiries about him ) . |
| 3 | The inquest into the Greenwich defeat was not to be a debate about the future direction of socialism in multi-cultural inner-city areas ; it was to be an appeal to homophobia . |
| 4 | So , if you 're 7 years old , or have a fondness for giant cuddly toys which speak very loudly indeed , Sesame Street is not to be missed . |
| 5 | Professor Kathleen Tillotson is also to be applauded on her C.B.E . |
| 6 | ‘ The dicta of three successive Lord Chief Justices are not to be lightly rejected . |
| 7 | Now at about the time that that letter was written on the twenty second of October er Mr had the meeting at the National Westminster Bank that had been arranged between himself and a Mrs and it is clear from er this meeting that the bank would no longer er , given that the Frinton property was not to be offered as security , prepared to offer the sum , the substantial sums that they had originally agreed to do and they were now only prepared to offer very much smaller sums and the plaintiff 's case is that the only way that they were going to be able to proceed to complete on this matter was er by selling their homes , their family home at and it is the plaintiff 's case , certainly in relation to er the losses that they have sustained as a result of the breach of contract , alleged in this case , that er if they had not been forced to go ahead to complete on this deal they would not have been required to sell their family home . |
| 8 | Our client had it in telephone conversation with the bank on ninth of September only proceeded with the proposed purchase on the express understanding that Frinton property was not to be included particularly as his father 's companion a Mrs eighty years of age , was residing in the property and owned a half share of it . |
| 9 | In Scotland , however , all non-advanced FE courses are now to be directed towards a single qualification ( see below : Scottish Vocational Education Council ) . |
| 10 | But David Kent was nowhere to be seen . |
| 11 | So , although the North Koreans were soon to be backed by 250,000 Communist Chinese troops , officially there was still no hot war — only a cold one , in two versions , foreign and domestic . |
| 12 | It is absolutely vital that the access notes in the guide are respected if the popular climbing area of Upper Pen Trwyn is not to be lost permanently . |
| 13 | Janis Kounellis is still to be seen at Lelong , showing early lithographs in small editions of twenty-one impressions . |
| 14 | But the Willowfield man was not to be caught and Paddy had to be content with second place with Lyle fading to finish fourth some 15 seconds behind third-placed man Greg Luke ( North Belfast ) . |
| 15 | Or perhaps Graham Mills was about to be named by the defector just before his murder . |
| 16 | Beijing University was not to be outdone , naturally , by its Shanghai colleagues . |
| 17 | ‘ I told you , Mr Devereux is n't to be disturbed tonight . ’ |
| 18 | There were at least a dozen big-wave specialists on the North Shore who , if the Eddie Aikau were actually to be held , could reasonably expect to make a small fortune . |
| 19 | Stepping into his path , Harry enquired as innocently as he could if Mr Cornelius was anywhere to be found . |
| 20 | Robert Owen is not to be understood at all except as a man of his time , of the French Political and the British Industrial Revolutions ; nor fully to be understood except as a man of the first stage of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 21 | Clarks Yard is soon to be put on the market as part of Darlington council 's bid to spruce up the three historic yards between High Row and Skinnergate . |
| 22 | The second round ties of the Yorkshire Cup are down to be played this Saturday a had kept open but when Harrogate were hoping to entertain Cambridge University for their first visit to Claro Road . |
| 23 | The second round ties of the Yorkshire Cup are down to be played this Saturday a had kept open but when Harrogate were hoping to entertain Cambridge University for their first visit to Claro Road . |
| 24 | We are also establishing a regional presence in the Middle East and Graham Hillier is soon to be taking up residence in Dubai to promote our activities in this region . |
| 25 | His secretary 's voice , raised in agitation : ‘ I 'm sorry — Mr Varna is not to be disturbed . |
| 26 | The real criticism of Mr Pound is not to be directed against his theory as such , but rather at the hasty headlong fashion in which he presents it , at the logical confusion of his intellect when it is not performing the task which is specifically his own , that task being poetry . |
| 27 | Frankly Mr Fallon is not to be believed . ’ |
| 28 | The Northmavine factory of Ronas Fisheries is also to be refurbished , at a cost of £630,000 . |
| 29 | The Icicle Works do n't appear to be particularly active at the present moment and Ian McNabb was recently to be spotted playing a solo gig at Camden 's Underground Club . |
| 30 | By the end of the first Thatcher administration , even Geoffrey Howe was scarcely to be identified as a strict monetarist , and the ‘ medium-term financial strategy , was in retreat . |