Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] be [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last thing the retailer wants is to be left with a lot of stock that does n't sell . |
| 2 | Another simple rule to observe is to be careful not to crimp or squeeze the cable . |
| 3 | We do n't , we , I do n't even know where Penny want 's to be buried . |
| 4 | The final series of the Hudson and Halls show is to be screened by the BBC later this year . |
| 5 | The head stressed that what Balbinder needed was to be in a small group , not in a class of twenty-three . |
| 6 | Copyright-cleared background music recordings can be obtained by mail order , and the addresses to contact are to be found in the relevant hobby magazines . |
| 7 | The evidence that this fear existed is to be found in a letter which Pope Alexander II sent to Lanfranc not long after his arrival in England . |
| 8 | My one ambition had been to be a pro , and I got to ten handicap . |
| 9 | One method which has previously been tried , albeit unsuccessfully , seeks to invoke principles of international law that would allegedly relieve taxpayers from their liability to pay tax on the ground that their assessments are rendered invalid by the unlawful purposes to which the taxes levied are to be applied . |
| 10 | This was to have been changed by clause 54(4) under which the benefit received was to be assessed at the arm 's length price which an ordinary member of the public would have paid for that service . |
| 11 | As the number of Neons added was to be quite high , I decided to add them alone . |
| 12 | A TELECOMMUNICATIONS link is to be established between students in Darlington and their counterparts in France . |
| 13 | How thrilled the girl had been to be going to the Holy City , how lovely she had looked in a jacket of scarlet silk , a birthday present given only the day before by Mrs Browning , how she had glowed and shivered with anticipation … |
| 14 | Meanwhile former West Indies captain Sir Garfield Sobers is to be the subject of a solo painting . |
| 15 | The Member States may indeed decide that the employee 's contract shall simply continue with the transferor , but they may equally decide that the employee 's refusal to transfer shall be regarded as a termination of the contract by the employer or , even , that the refusal to transfer is to be treated as a determination of the contract of by the employee ( point 36 ) . |
| 16 | The Act gives certain powers to the High Court where an application is made for an order for evidence to be obtained in England , and the court is satisfied that the application is made in pursuance of a request issued by or on behalf of a court or tribunal exercising jurisdiction in another part of the United Kingdom or some other country , and that the evidence sought is to be obtained for the purposes of civil proceedings which have either been instituted before the requesting court or whose institution is contemplated . |
| 17 | At this stage , most if not all expert systems can not be used by naive users ; a reasonable general knowledge of the area of expertise covered by the system ( its knowledge domain ) is essential if the output produced is to be taken seriously , just as the scope , limitations and difficulties presented by a new piece of legislation can only be predicted with any certainty by a lawyer and , even then , not always correctly . |
| 18 | These schools , given a far from warm reception when first proposed , are to be funded in a new way , are to fall altogether outside Local Authority control , and as their name implies are to be devoted primarily to preparing their pupils for a career in industry . |
| 19 | What Owen wanted was to be in and out fast . |
| 20 | In many parishes the parish magazine has been in being for a number of years and is a great repository of local information — which event was held by which organisation in which year , who won prizes at the horticultural show , etc. , etc . |
| 21 | The last thing most of these people want is to be given reasons for changing their minds . |
| 22 | One of the several things we would advise any visitor to San Gimignano to do is to be in its main square , Piazza della Cisterna , towards evening when the light of the setting sun tinges the buildings with delicate colours . |
| 23 | ‘ The constant worry all my staff have is of being transferred . ’ |
| 24 | The capital cost is to be financed from a local property tax . |
| 25 | I want to forget that a big chunk of my life has been about being as good a dissident as possible . |
| 26 | I want to forget that a big chunk of my life has been about being as good a dissident as possible . |
| 27 | This inspectorate has been in being three hundred and fifty years . |
| 28 | Where all the claimants are before the court under section 8 , then the relief granted is to be ‘ such as to avoid double liability of the wrongdoer , ’ which presumably means that the court is to apportion the damages representing the value of the chattel according to the respective interests of the claimants . |
| 29 | If students ' freedom to learn is to be made a reality , academic staff must provide the intellectual conditions for students to be intellectually free . |
| 30 | We have seen that , if students ' freedom to learn is to be a reality , it has to be acknowledged by the academic community in all the academic processes that affect students , from the time of applying for admission through the course arrangements and the curriculum experience to the final assessment . |