Example sentences of "[prep] be [noun] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | She who had so many reasons to be content was now besieged by envies , regrets , shameful , all of them , and she burned , on that hot July day , to admit to such inflammatory meanness . |
| 2 | But just as the strength to be content was n't a grim determination of self-discipline in the face of varying circumstances , Paul 's strength to be ready for anything came from the work of God in his life . |
| 3 | To be anti-suffrage was not necessarily to be anti-feminist ; many opponents of the suffrage , men and women , campaigned for better educational opportunities for women and supported their work at the local level . |
| 4 | Now , however , to be Han was equally untenable . |
| 5 | Originally it was supposed to be water was n't it in in in the bottom . |
| 6 | The text to be typeset was displayed as a pattern of dots on a high resolution screen and transferred optically to the photographic paper , digital typesetting was born . |
| 7 | What he appeared to be doing was chatting her up . |
| 8 | Finally , we must be concerned by the fact that in at least one school ( see Chapter 5 ) the senior member of staff whose demand for IS resources was widely believed to have instigated the original project initiative could not himself describe how he used the project acquisitions in his own work . |