Example sentences of "[noun sg] to be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You like your girlfriend to be with you at every Grand Prix ? ’ |
| 2 | François Guizot , an archetypal representative of the political élite , neatly summed up the Prince 's appeal : ‘ It means a great deal to be at one and the same time a national glory , a revolutionary guarantee , and a principle of authority . ’ |
| 3 | of a force to be on the beat . |
| 4 | ‘ I went back to the bedroom to be with my baby , ’ said 28-year-old Curtis . |
| 5 | The national coach has earlier said that FS must play first-team football to be in consideration for the WC. — I will let Drillo know which clubs and i will listen to his advice , S say . |
| 6 | She continued : ‘ My kitchen would be in the other … what a luxury to be in my mother and able to look outside … ! |
| 7 | Satellite observations reveal the area of major ozone loss to be about the size of the United States . |
| 8 | But he rose from his sick-bed to be on hand when the committee reached their expected decision . |
| 9 | I shall ask the Father and He will give you another advocate to be with you forever . |
| 10 | Jesus said I shall ask the Father and He will give you another advocate to be with you for ever . |
| 11 | I consider that programme to be by far the best report on the effects of screen violence to be shown in recent years . |
| 12 | It would appear , however , that Chalmers is content at the Greenyards where he considers the quality of the coaching to be among the ‘ highest at club level in the UK . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ God sent all artists here because it can be such a drag to be on this planet , ’ said the star . |
| 14 | The weakness in passenger traffic , which fell 8 p.c last year , and operating losses have not prevented the airline from launching the most successful expansion programme among European airlines so far , in a bid to be among the few groups which are expected to survive deregulation over the next few years . |
| 15 | So the first question is , where do you imagine the poet to be at the beginning of the poem . |
| 16 | THE outlook for retail sales is seen by Midland Montagu Research to be of ‘ pivotal importance to the economy . ’ |
| 17 | While Nicaragua and El Salvador were perceived during the 1980s by the US State Department to be on the frontline of the fight against communism ( and therefore newsworthy ) , the larger-scale massacres in neighbouring Guatemala received no attention : journalists wandering around the scorched highlands simply could n't get their stories printed . |
| 18 | On the next day , he had to appear again before the Emperor and was given a pair of white gloves to put on before he took the Royal pulse ; he pronounced His Majesty to be in good health , which pleased the Emperor . |
| 19 | However , as a resource of what is a question in a flagging economy which is unlikely in the near future to be in search of recruits to the labour force from marginal groups , as it was in the days of labour shortage in the 1950s ( Harper and Thane , 1989 ) . |
| 20 | There are further work opportunities on the horizon in Kuwait , where Wimpey expects the future to be in joint ventures . |
| 21 | On 15 June , after further demonstrations , the Armenian Supreme Soviet voted unanimously for the disputed region to be transferred to their republic ; the Azerbaijani Supreme Soviet , meeting two days later , was equally unanimous in holding this vote to be in violation of the Soviet Constitution . |
| 22 | Slow start but in the end realises ambition to be to blaxpoitation movies what Airplane was to disaster movies . |
| 23 | YVETTE Fielding , above , who presents ITV 's Saturday morning children 's show What 's Up Doc ? , is about to achieve her great ambition to be in pantomime . |
| 24 | The rules of Equity as to stipulations about time and other provisions which would not be held by Equity to be of the essence of the contract , are to prevail in all cases . |
| 25 | You should , therefore , make every attempt to be in the first row , going fast as the gun goes and , ideally , with a space to leeward so that no-one is making you pinch . |
| 26 | The significant point is that you have to split a manoeuvre up and experiment with each part for practice to be worth while . |
| 27 | Just three days before the workshop , he spoke to a virtual stranger about his firm intention to be in Hawaii in three days ' time , saying he had no idea how it would be made possible . |
| 28 | But two weeks later a friend in the motor trade serviced it for him and proclaimed the car to be in sound condition and a good deal . |
| 29 | Santa Monica , California-based Retix Inc warns that it expects net profit and turnover to be below analysts ' estimates for its first quarter ending April 3 : it expects operating results to be hurt by delays in releasing product enhancements for its RouterXchange 7000 series of routers to volume production , including support for IBM 's Token Ring network environment ; sales may be down up to 15% , and it may only break even or even worse . |
| 30 | ‘ We expect the majority of our turnover to be from overseas markets , ’ he said . |