Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [adj] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely now just months before the Cornmill is due to open is the time to ensure the town 's assets such as easy town centre car parking are in good working order . |
| 2 | The occasion of Wulfhere 's intervention in Surrey is likely to have been the death of King Ecgberht , which appears to have been followed by an interregnum or at least a contested succession . |
| 3 | This represented a quite remarkable compromise which required the co-operation of Aethelred , king of the Mercians , who restored Wilfrid 's Mercian possessions , and Aelfflaed , abbess of Whitby , whose influence with King Aldfrith is likely to have been considerable ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 43 ) , but it may have been a manifestation of the insecurity of Aldfrith in the years immediately following his accession . |
| 4 | In the middle of a prime corn-growing district , Chichester is unlikely to have been a centre of putting out ; high wages there probably showed the influence of a craft-based manufacture , though on too small a scale to have any marked effect on the level and distribution of wealth . |
| 5 | If Lear was unhappy working on the Birds of Europe , Gould is unlikely to have been aware of it , or paid him much notice . |
| 6 | December is unlikely to have been any better , though it will see one example of international cooperation as the US , USSR and UK combine to trim the happy , carefree money-spenders of the United Nations . |
| 7 | The earliest record of Prague is supposed to have been documented in the 9th century . |
| 8 | ‘ You can take it from me , Titron was supposed to have been melted off the face of the earth . |
| 9 | The majority of the Franks are unlikely to have been affected as yet by Christianity . |
| 10 | A 44th minute goalmouth melee in which Colin Allister and Norman McGladdery were both denied was the nearest Bann came to giving themselves a glimmer of hope . |
| 11 | Now one of the things that Ronnie Reagan was disappointed to find was that in order really to address his budget deficit , he cut federal aid to the states but he did it er dressed it up in an ideological argument which said you know that the government is too big , government is too intrusive , government should get off the backs of the people , you know , er we should n't go to government to solve our problems , government is the problem , that 's one of the , one of Ronnie 's other memorable phrases . |
| 12 | THE two boys who abducted James Bulger are likely to have been his murderers . |
| 13 | The customers AT&T is keenest to serve are global firms wanting global services . |
| 14 | One of the more unusual activities that Twr y Felin is able to offer is what they call coasteering — climbing , scrambling and swimming around the lovely Pembrokeshire coastline . |
| 15 | One point Airtours is anxious to make is that it is normal for discounting to take place during May , June and October ; children are still at school and tour operators try to tempt others to book their holidays . |
| 16 | The last thing Britain was prepared to entertain was insecurity of relay stations on the Chinese mainland . |
| 17 | There were many traditional features in his films and his whole approach to a story was never far removed from the conventions of melodrama , but what Griffith was able to do was to shift the action of any of his films to whatever chapter of history or social setting that his plot or theme required . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the letter shows clearly the intensity of feeling in England in this period , and the creation of a new archbishopric at Lichfield is certain to have been an extremely controversial matter . |
| 19 | One apparent anomaly in the post-October arrangements that Gostelow is keen to defend is the unchanged status of road running in the AAA of England — the most powerful component of the BAF . |
| 20 | At the Paris exhibition of 1900 ( the one at which Oscar Wilde is supposed to have been recorded ) , the Columbia company introduced their ‘ Multiplex Grand ’ machine , using a giant cylinder played by three styli and horns . |
| 21 | Here again , hopefully protected with a ‘ Black Owned ’ sign , was a McDonald 's that had been spared . |
| 22 | But the massive post-election bomb in London is likely to have been an each-way bet planned well in advance . |
| 23 | On Oswiu 's death , so far as we know , the succession passed peacefully to his son , Ecgfrith , but concern for what would happen on the death of Ecgfrith is likely to have been acute . |
| 24 | The presence of a very occasional lesser white-fronted goose from Scandinavia on the reclaimed land of the Severn is well-known to have been a crucial factor in Sir Peter Scott 's choice of site for the new wildfowl refuge and research station he had dreamed of creating during the War . |
| 25 | Brampton was supposed to have been the culprit but , due to chance and circumstances , we have ascertained he was innocent , and he , too , was murdered , though it was made to look like suicide . |
| 26 | Whoever they were , Ulf and Eglaf are unlikely to have been the prime movers in the attack on Cnut . |
| 27 | The deaf children of the Molfetta Deaf School in Trani were proud to have been singled out for a visit by the Princess |
| 28 | Attributed to great painters , from Duccio to Francesco di Giorgio , pride of private collections and museums , the re-creations of Old Masters for which Joni is famous have been the subject of careful critical analysis by the best qualified scholars of Italian Trecento and Quattrocento art . |
| 29 | Many of the resorts Citalia is pleased to offer are within an easy day 's outing of some of Italy 's great cities and their host of cultural achievements and attractions . |
| 30 | Deprived after Nechtansmere of the land and tribute from the Picts and Irish which probably underlay such power , Northumbria is likely to have been a poorer as well as a less dominant kingdom . |