Example sentences of "to [be] a [noun] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liam thought long afterwards of the strangeness of those few days , and how he was brought back from what was to be a trip to America , just in time to arrange his own father 's funeral . |
| 2 | The Olympic final turned out to be a battle between Wells and the Cuban Silvio Leonard . |
| 3 | The race turned out to be a battle between Peter Scudamore on and Waterloo Boy , number thirteen . |
| 4 | Unfortunately she made a mistake of naming the church where Jesus was found as St George 's , which happened to be a Church of England edifice . |
| 5 | ‘ This phone happens to be a call-box in Marylebone , ’ said Quinn , ‘ but you 're right not to trust it . |
| 6 | Susan Hyland joined the British Foreign Service , while Anne McGivern survived the torturous B.C.L. programme and is now training to be a barrister in Northern Ireland . |
| 7 | It had a tarnished brass knocker showing a pixie cobbling shoes and declaring itself to be a present from Cornwall . |
| 8 | The story that she has no artistic taste was shown to be a lie in January when a collection of her old-master paintings sold well at Christie 's in New York . |
| 9 | The site was designed to be a mirror-image of Ford 's main US plant . |
| 10 | So that 's going to be a problem for Nottingham Forest who threatened towards the end of that first half to get back into this game one down remember . |
| 11 | PROUD TO BE A BRUMMIE by Carl Chinn |
| 12 | What seems to be about to be a tour of London given by ‘ a real live Britisher , — |
| 13 | Maybe I should even feel a little flattered that you consider me sufficiently important to be a threat to Rob 's engagement . ’ |
| 14 | In July this year only six per cent of those surveyed considered the Soviet Union to be a threat to Australia 's security , this figure being an all-time low . |
| 15 | Clearing the house after a relative died , I came across what purports to be a passport to Hay-on-Wye . |
| 16 | This was seen to be a reference to Iran 's standing position calling for the death of Salman Rushdie for the anti-Islamic " blasphemies " contained in his novel , The Satanic Verses . |
| 17 | If he was not to be a lecturer at Cambridge because they did not think him academic enough , and if he was not to be a parish priest because he could not keep teenagers in order and because the adults were said not to understand him and because he felt a teaching vocation , where was his right place ? |
| 18 | " Well , you might turn out to be a nuisance to Edward . " |
| 19 | Their festivals were to be a commemoration of God 's acts and even some of their clothes were to carry a reminder : ‘ Into this tassel you shall work a violet thread , and whenever you see this in the tassel , you shall remember all the Lord 's commands and obey them . ’ |
| 20 | There is said to be a grandmother at Ross Carbery who can sing the whole of ‘ The Battle of Ross Carbery ’ , another local ballad . |
| 21 | used to be a cripple on Hollywood . |
| 22 | In fact , there seems to be a kind of Ur -pop song in Adorno 's mind — to which no actual song , however standardized , could totally conform . |
| 23 | Whether the Ephesian disciples were Christians or not before Paul 's arrival — and the development of the story suggests that he finds they were not — Paul 's initial question still assumes that it is possible to be a believer in Jesus without receiving fully the Holy Spirit . |
| 24 | ‘ I am not prepared for us to be a satellite of Middlesbrough and it appears the majority of Radio One programmes will be coming from Middlesbrough , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Here at Whaddon I have allowed his talent to blossom and I would not be surprised to see the League big boys sniffing after him before Christmas , and Darren to be a regular in Barnet reserves by the end of the season . |
| 26 | It promised to be a microcosm of Lancashire life in the depressed ‘ thirties . |
| 27 | When they do vote , they usually cast their votes on national issues : Neil Kinnock called for the June 1989 elections to be a judgement on Mrs Thatcher 's term in office . |
| 28 | Planned to be a criminologist after Oxford , you know , and started applying the craft to friends and acquaintances at Breakspear . |
| 29 | At the moment there seems to be a consensus within South Africa for change . |
| 30 | Nothing in the prohibition set out above shall be taken to be a direction to Norwich Union to terminate the appointment of the Winchester Group or any other person as an appointed representative . |