Example sentences of "be [verb] to be [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the 35,000 who have been accepted , about 26,000 are expected to be at the start and these will include one of Britain 's most famous athletes , David Bedford , who has slimmed down for his first big race since he retired 11 years ago . |
| 2 | Another march is being held in Bonn next Monday , three days before the summit , when 50,000 Germans are expected to be on the streets . |
| 3 | The final stages of formation are expected to be of the nature of an lhb . |
| 4 | Around one hundred galleries are expected to have signed up by the closing date and attendance figures are expected to be around the usual 100,000 . |
| 5 | Ford of Europe announced that it is to make over 10,000 job cuts by the end of 1993 , about 40% of which are expected to be in the UK . |
| 6 | All are expected to be in the same ballpark . |
| 7 | Proceeds are expected to be in the region of £150,000 with estimates ranging from £200 to £7,000 . |
| 8 | There are , however , certain promises and acts which , for various reasons of policy , are deemed to be of no value in law and which are therefore an insufficient consideration . |
| 9 | The Government has stated that , as well as continuing cover on non-vested markets for NCM , it will provide reinsurance for those contracts which are deemed to be in the ‘ national interest ’ for as long as the Government considers its existence essential to meet the reasonable needs of exporters and so long as it performs satisfactorily as a trading facility . |
| 10 | Lemurs are considered to be amongst the more primitive of the primates . |
| 11 | The rewards , however , are seen to be worth the effort to master the new game . |
| 12 | Traditional music and hymnody are seen to be for an older audience . |
| 13 | Consequently , enterprises are seen to be like the machines they contain and people have to relate to them accordingly . |
| 14 | And I think that there is a very strong argument erm for getting women in the cabinet on the basis that if women are seen to be in the cabinet they are seen as competent , they 're seen as excellent politicians , and that 's why I go for a form of positive discrimination , which is that if you 've got two people who are equally well qualified , and if erm Mr Major decided that a man and a women were equally well qualified , then I think he should have chosen the woman erm |
| 15 | Remains of the chancel are said to be of the 12th century , and the tower was rebuilt in the 15th century and has three bells . |
| 16 | These three papers are said to be of the same standard as the six Law Society 's finals papers . |
| 17 | Further west , nitrogens in the few crops of Puffin barley so far harvested are said to be on the low side . |
| 18 | Three operations are said to be on the verge of bankruptcy because their claims — submitted through the ‘ one door ’ compensation office in Lerwick — have not been met . |
| 19 | is preceded by silence and is followed by silence , and so and are said to be in a position of external open juncture . |
| 20 | Some 300 native applications are said to be in the process of moving to Solaris x86 . |
| 21 | The Romans were taking the Merano Cure from as early as the 4th century and its spring waters are said to be among the best in the world . |
| 22 | Between 200 and 500 miners are said to be inside the park , polluting it with mercury , and local politicians appear reluctant to remove them . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , you know how people like to be together , even if they 're pretending to be in the wild , so I was thinking of groupings of four to six cabins per lot . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ That means you 're going to be off the streets for quite a while . ’ |
| 25 | Once they have a decision to work , then I would doubt very much actually they 're going to be into every corner of St Clements and East , or ignoring council estates altogether . |
| 26 | So good rule is work out the easy one first , now they 're going to be about the same , erm , otherwise they would n't be asking |
| 27 | You 're going to be on the edge of your seat . |
| 28 | You 're going to be in a lot of trouble later . ’ |
| 29 | And one where if we 're not prepared to learn from the Europeans , whether it 's integrated transport in cities or whether it 's intercity links or wherever , we 're going to be in a great deal of trouble . |
| 30 | I think you must have some guidelines for them otherwise they 're going to be in a quandary . |