Example sentences of "the [noun] to be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er the erm the environmental health check I think he did discuss it at fantastic length , the question of our public lavatories an an and the savings that can be made and the judgement it came to in the end was a , was a very one I think on the outlook against of what you can reasonably do , erm nevertheless I do gather that erm erm it is no longer necessary under standing orders , for erm amendments to the budget to be self financing because you can move amendments to simply increase the budget and er the amendment that I reserve I suppose , it 's not very much . |
| 2 | Pc Keith Black went into the toilet with Mr. Smith and they found the figure to be Mr. Thurgood , wearing a T-shirt which fitted the soldiers ' description . |
| 3 | In other words , there are some activities , which although similar to investment business , are not deemed for the purposes of the Act to be investment business and therefore do not require authorization . |
| 4 | The Yanks consider the Chainsaw to be punk rock . |
| 5 | That community , for historical reasons , happens at the moment to be East Sussex , the whole of East Sussex including Brighton , Eastbourne , Hastings and so on , and a substantial slice of West Sussex , so that our open community courses are available in these areas . |
| 6 | The desire to be Miles Hunt soon led to the Levellers . |
| 7 | We have received no convincing answers either from UKOOA or the Government as to the procedure that needs to be observed to ensure that offshore workers not only enjoy the right to be trade union members but can have their trade unions recognised by their employers . |
| 8 | To wit , the chance to be Ms Galahad , the Amazon on the white horse ( or , in this case , the dyke in the black taxi ) , who rescues the fair damozel in distress . |
| 9 | " the Under Roome of the howse wherein the Schoole ys nowe kepte to and for the use of the Schoole to be kepte theere for ever . |
| 10 | What tended in the past to be action stories have , without loss of excitement in the best examples such as the stories and novels of John Christopher and Nicholas Fisk , become serious exercises in prediction . |
| 11 | While the 7EGNS has a low action and plays easily , there is a tendency for the strings to buzz , and close inspection reveals the cause to be nut slots cut too deeply on the A and D strings . |
| 12 | Readers must decide for themselves but should bear in mind the words of the man who has followed in the footsteps of Mr Jason Donovan as the eponymous star of Joseph And His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat : ‘ It 's not the easiest thing in the world to be Phillip Schofield 's girlfriend . ’ |
| 13 | It is also true at a more subtle level in that Nyerere , perhaps the finest political debater in Africa land responsible for the first translation of Shakespeare 's Julius Caesar into kiSwahili ) , left himself with no-one to debate with , at least until he left the presidency to be party chairman in 1985 . |
| 14 | Putting aside the personal feud between Streisand and Matthau , Crawford considered the one ‘ destructive element ’ in the production to be Ernest Lehman , who walked around looking unhappy throughout . |
| 15 | Although in the oases they made gardens , perhaps even carried on other spare-time occupations , they were forbidden to trade and did not have the time to be truck drivers . |