Example sentences of "[noun] of [pers pn] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | These , so MacDonald and Snowden told their colleagues , must amount to £25–30 millions , the bulk of them to be found out of unemployment charges … only reductions in unemployment payments would satisfy the opposition and resolve the crisis ; yet this would at the same time betray the hopes of the party 's supporters and probably split the party itself … |
| 2 | It 's been a life-long ambition of mine to be involved in something mysterious , a crime . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's a life-long ambition of mine to be a chauffeur and I just want to be given a chance . ’ |
| 4 | Colchester police issued a photograph of Lisa and appealed for any sightings of her to be reported . |
| 5 | The University accepts no liability for loss arising from the failure of electricity , heating systems , water supplies , fire , flooding or for any other cause beyond its reasonable control which may cause the University 's premises or part of them to be temporarily closed or the booking to be interrupted , interfered with or cancelled . |
| 6 | The conflict which characterizes our everyday feelings usually causes part of them to be inhibited or suppressed ; in contrast poetry and the other arts ‘ spring from and perpetuate hours in the lives of exceptional people , when their control and command of experience is at its highest ’ ( Richards 1967 : 22 ) . |
| 7 | Since the Criminal Justice Act 1967 , the Courts had been able to suspend a sentence of imprisonment , but not to require part of it to be served in custody with part suspended . |
| 8 | The affidavit must verify that the defendant falls within the categories in Ord 29 , r11(2) and the amount of the damages to which the application relates and contain enough information to enable the master or district judge to reach a preliminary valuation of the claim ( because he has got to order a part of it to be paid to the plaintiff ) . |
| 9 | The site 's about to be developed by Tarmac Construction , but Thamesdown Media Arts wants part of it to be set aside for a museum , telling the story — the whole story — of those who worked there . |
| 10 | ‘ Right now , I 'm going to fill the big bowl with nice hot water and you are going to have a scrub and I want every bit of you to be clean , mind , including your hair . ’ |
| 11 | Well aware that most workers were indifferent to foreign affairs , he fully expected the majority of them to be swept into fratricide by patriotic propaganda if war actually came . |
| 12 | I longed for a story of mine to be given that accolade . |
| 13 | ‘ I stopped my eight- and ten-year-olds from watching Grange Hill , ’ she says , ‘ because it covered abortion and , however well it was done , I did not want their first experience of it to be through television . ’ |
| 14 | big sand stone rocks , they find things that fish today er had , had got other pediments that million years back , same thing , but not , not , not the same as they are today , you know , well they must of got hold of it to be different from a million years ago |
| 15 | The King , who had not forgotten the sermons of Andrewes , told Parliament that ‘ Princes are not bound to give account of their actions but to God alone ’ and that ‘ Parliaments are altogether in my power for their calling , sitting and dissolution ; as I find the fruits of them to be good or evil they are to continue or not to be . ’ |
| 16 | Two hundred and forty volts of it to be exact . |
| 17 | With reference to individuals in public life , if a serious allegation is made the public now expects the question of the truth or falsity of it to be demonstrated by the taking of proceedings , whether the proceedings result in a decision of the court or an apology and settlement . |
| 18 | I took it he knew what he was about , and it was no business of ours to be curious about the abbey 's affairs . ’ |
| 19 | Ought the criticism of her to be a thought subdued before the book comes out ? |
| 20 | The travels of Sir Charles Grandison are censured by his Harriet with the remark that the sight of ruins on the Tour , which most gentlemen ( including himself ) then made of Europe , is actually less instructive than the knowledge of them to be gained from books . |
| 21 | ‘ He 'd been sent to a friend of mine to be sold , but he was a little bit difficult to place . |
| 22 | You wo n't be staying here for very much longer , and I do n't want your last memory of me to be the way I was yesterday . ’ |
| 23 | He saw the purpose of it to be for advisers to gain a general view of the school — not to pick up on bad points . |
| 24 | For a wait-and-see approach to work , the patient has to come back regularly for decay or lack of it to be assessed . |
| 25 | It would , I think , be appropriate for that detailed statement to be made available to the other parties well in advance of the hearing , to enable the claim and the detail of it to be considered . |
| 26 | On the contrary it seems on the face of it to be likely that with some learners a conscious awareness of how language works and the subjection of their experience to analysis would suit their cognitive style , increase motivation by giving added point to their activities , and so enhance learning . |
| 27 | Obviously , there are other pricing schemes a firm could employ , but none would seem on the face of it to be as compelling as the ones we have discussed here . |
| 28 | If , as might appear on the face of it to be the case , ss20-24 can only be breached by actual acts , no difficulty arises with MDPs . |
| 29 | Occasionally there was a total embargo on any press interviews and Laura never allowed a stock of photographs of her to be held and handed out at will . |