Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am to be the new Archdeacon here . ’ |
| 2 | Observation and participation in the installation ceremonies are to be the major tools of research and have been made possible by earlier field-work . |
| 3 | Great is the festival hall where you are to be the only guest . |
| 4 | Planning , social inquiry reports and enforcing court orders are to be the future task of probation , with an emphasis on the new task of the management and organisation of time , resources and workloads . |
| 5 | It is not necessarily romantic — that is , restrictive , unreal , exaggerated — to draw on the upper deck for the individual characters whose attitudes and decisions are to be the driving force of a story . |
| 6 | The Bootle coal mountains are to be the focal point of a demonstration against imports and pit closures tomorrow . |
| 7 | The loans were to be administered by a specially formed company under contract to the government ; but the government has been unable to secure the co-operation of the major banks , who were to be the chief participants in the new company , and the loans scheme is in disarray . |
| 8 | Top talks as if it rested with me to settle who were to be the Unionist candidates for the constituencies . |
| 9 | If £20 were to be the standard fee , which I support , then OAPs and the unemployed could get a £10 discount . |
| 10 | He points out that petrol is now very cheap : if , in real terms , it were to be the equivalent price of a decade ago it would cost over £4 a gallon . |
| 11 | There was a substantial issue of fact as to whether or not the elderly parents , who were to be the principal debtors , had received the letters written by the creditor advising them to take independent legal advice . |
| 12 | For the better part of the next forty years they were to be the decisive restraints . |
| 13 | ’ The black majority were to be the prime targets ’ |
| 14 | The Symposium was at pains to stress that it was the black majority who were to be the prime targets of any campaign . |
| 15 | In 455 the Goths were to be the prime movers in his elevation to imperial office . |
| 16 | Strikes by Doherty ‘ s National Union of Operative Spinners , and in the coal fields , greatly alarmed Peel , at the Home Office ; and , in what were to be the dying days of the Tory administration , he looked unsuccessfully for a legal answer to what he called ‘ the constitution and acts of a confederacy calculated in its immediate effects to disturb the peace of the manufacturing districts , and capable , if allowed to gain strength and consistency , of being converted at once into an open resistance to the law . ’ |
| 17 | These were to be the major elements of the action project . |
| 18 | Realism had flourished with Defoe , Richardson , Fielding and Smollett , and these were to be the presiding deities of the new British novel . |
| 19 | The first two years of education were to be the academic years , and there were proposals for these two years also to be seen as discrete and eligible for a Diploma of Higher Education . |
| 20 | Beneath them were to be the fascist Legions , the militant branch of the League who were divided into active and passive sections of members . |
| 21 | To many within the underground , and in the media 's eyes , in the years ahead Ferrier and Neville were to be the archetypal underground beautiful couple . |
| 22 | Whether NoS could be classified as ‘ Loony Left ’ or not , the majority of its council backers were to be the big names on the Sun hit list . |
| 23 | The years 1182–3 were to be the maker-break crisis of Richard 's rule in Aquitaine , faced as he was by so many enemies . |
| 24 | Movies had always been made about the past , of course , if not so very frequently about that immediate past whose primary unit of measure is the decade rather than the century ; but it was probably Visconti 's The Damned in 1969 that inaugurated what were to be the definitive parameters of a new filmic style . |
| 25 | Kawanishi were to be the main assemblers . |
| 26 | The local authorities were to be the main organisers of hospital provision , combining together in joint authorities to plan care in their areas , including the voluntary sector . |
| 27 | The second factor is of is the whole question of holiday entitlements . |
| 28 | With empathy , we try to imagine what it is like being the other person and experiencing things as he does . |
| 29 | It 's to be the usual passive wanks from now on . |
| 30 | The rational agent can then calculate the expected utility of each action by assigning a ‘ utility ’ ( a quotient of happiness , so to speak ) to each consequence and discounting it for how likely or unlikely it is to be the actual consequence . |