Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [adj] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fulfilled a number of Government appointments prior to coming to England in 1965 to be assistant Press Secretary at Buckingham Palace . |
| 2 | I have decided to exercise my discretion under standing order five so that agenda item nine B , notice of motion by Mr on fox-hunting to be taken now . |
| 3 | It is not a particularly political family , although the fourth Earl did attend the House of Lords in 1760 to be tried for shooting his steward . |
| 4 | But again , and in more than one sense , we see too much of Bloom for that to be the whole explanation . |
| 5 | By the late 1920s these cars were really in need of drastic rebuilding and from 1927 , it was possible to send them away to Hendon for this to be done properly . |
| 6 | Bred in Australia by his owner Sir Chester Manifold , Crisp had come to Britain in 1970 to be trained by Fred Winter . |
| 7 | Phemister , who had taken part in early geophysical work by the Survey between 1926 and 1931 , was transferred to London in 1935 to be Chief Petrographer . |
| 8 | In May 1269 Queen Eleanor , Edward and Edmund the king 's sons , and Guy de Lusignan , the king 's half-brother , persuaded Henry III to appoint his nephew Henry of Almain to be constable of Rockingham castle and warden of the forests between Oxford and Stamford bridges , as a return for expenses incurred by him in the king 's service , and for debts owed by the king to him . |