Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [pos pn] [noun pl] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three special ambassadors sent to James II in 1685 , for example , to congratulate him on his coronation and ask for English help against the Turks , unsuccessfully demanded privileges which were regarded as quite unjustified — to be " conducted " at their audience with the king by a duke rather than as usual a mere earl and for their coaches to be allowed to enter the courtyard of the royal palace . |
| 2 | He warned : ‘ It is easy to be has-beens at 21 with nothing in thee future and for their lives to be ruined . |
| 3 | An independent inquiry into the death of Ashley Kriel , and for his killers to be brought to trial . |
| 4 | The 10th anniversary on May 4 of the death of Josip Broz Tito , the founder of communist Yugoslavia , was marked by a minute 's silence throughout the country , but also by a demonstration by around 2,000 Serbs in Belgrade calling for an end to the personality cult surrounding Tito and for his remains to be moved from Belgrade to his native Croatia . |
| 5 | ‘ All I really want is to have a home of my own and for my children to be happy . ’ |
| 6 | Only a year ago the Shah had seemed to himself and to his allies to be utterly secure . |