Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [be] is " in BNC.

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1 Over Christmas and the New Year , the best place to be is Disneyworld in Florida for truly magical celebrations .
2 1993 , and the place to be is London ; the clothes , shops , cars , museums , parks , nightclubs , disco 's , pubs , casino 's , the ACTION …
3 1993 , and the place to be is London , with all the good and the bad !
4 One of the most confusing places to be is the lift at the BBC Television Centre .
5 Ala I want my writing to be is modest , restrained , colourful , truthful … .
6 We shall adopt a small arrow as our notation for assignment in this sense , so that ( 31 ) ( excluding irrelevant details like number , and the particular tense employed ) may be represented as ( 35 ) , where we again abbreviate by passing directly from the word forms to the intensional pattern : We may note , by the way , that the copular verb to be is the direct formal representation of the relation of assignment ; this has to be expressed overtly in English ( as well as being indicated by the order of noun and adjective ) , although in many other languages , e.g. Russian and Arabic , no overt exponent is required .
7 Notable among these is the fact that the mismatch of range is even greater than in the case of the prenominal adjectives ; it is true that one can usually expand a postnominal adjective to a relative clause containing be , though we should certainly note cases like : ( 31 ) he is dreaming of the whisky which will be galore with her arms which were akimbo she stared at Victor food which is aplenty is on sale in the end tent however , there is not the slightest difficulty about producing numerous examples where the relative clause with be is fully satisfactory but can not be reduced to a grammatical postnominal adjective .
8 And the the biscuit box is for your votes and the one with the black label on is is for your money or your commitment or your promises .
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