Example sentences of "and they be to [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That has not been the attitude of David Houghton or his group , and they are to be congratulated for that . |
| 2 | Hillhouse assistant site manager Ian Henderson said : ‘ This award is the culmination of a lot of hard work by all the team and they are to be congratulated on bringing their quality assurance scheme to the high standard recognised by this presentation . ’ |
| 3 | The numbers of those who have added to the ‘ goodness ’ on earth are legion , and they are to be found among all the races of the world , from origins of the humblest to the most exalted . |
| 4 | Their emphasis is usually ‘ Christian ’ rather than ‘ denominational ’ and they are to be found almost wholly in large conurbations . |
| 5 | Er your Royal Highness , Chairman , Commodores , Ladies and Gentlemen , the accounts have been circulated and they are to be found on pages eight to fourteen with the report and there are copies around the room . |
| 6 | The king instructed the sheriff to arrest them , and they were to be kept in prison until further orders . |
| 7 | I think if you look through the books , there are comments in there where they were n't sure , with question marks and they were to be rechecked . |
| 8 | Yet if I reflect upon what happened , in what some might call an existential manner , or attempt what physicists might call a ‘ thought experiment ’ to reconstruct my situation , I can see myself as having been assailed by various impulses : to assist the dog and stop the car , to comfort the children , to drive on lest I and they were to be injured in an accident , to avoid the horror of confronting a demented animal . |
| 9 | They were so run down that passenger trains were rarely entrusted to them if anything else could be found , and they were to be seen hauling coal trains as on this occasion when No. 46156 ‘ The South Wales Borderers ’ passed Holmewood heading south in 1964 . |
| 10 | He and the American senator greeted each other as old colleagues and they were to be seen together for much of the remainder of that day , laughing over reminiscences . |
| 11 | In fact while we find duces in charge of groups of civitates , they also appear as leaders of royal armies , without any clear geographical base , and they were to be found engaged in a wide variety of other activites , including diplomatic missions . |