Example sentences of "and [pos pn] [noun pl] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or should I perhaps sit down in Salzburg with the empty hope of some better fortune , let Wolfgang grow up , and allow myself and my children to be made fools of until I reach the age which prevents me from travelling and until he attains the age and physical appearance which no longer attract admiration for his merits ? |
| 2 | In a rare if not unique development in Africa , President Mathieu Kerekou , who had wielded power since a coup in 1972 , agreed to abide by decisions taken by the " National Conference of Active Forces of the Nation " , which in a bold move on Feb. 25 had proclaimed itself to be a sovereign body and its decisions to be " mandatory " . |
| 3 | We believe the capitalist state and its institutions to be at the heart of this oppression , and that we must organise and educate women to deal with this on varying levels . |
| 4 | The dispositive contents of the will include : ( i ) pecuniary legacies of £1,000 each to the two executors , and of £2,000 to a Mr. Clarke , the deceased 's stockbroker ; ( ii ) provision for 150B , High Street and its contents to be retained to provide a residence during their respective lifetimes of two ladies , Mrs. Donelly and Mrs. Willett ; ( iii ) a settled legacy of £10,000 to provide for the maintenance of 150B , High Street during the residence there of the two ladies ; ( iv ) a settled legacy of £2,000 for a specified animal charity ; and ( v ) a gift of residue in equal shares to two specified charities . |
| 5 | Everything happened agonizingly slowly : it took an age , or seemed to , for the ship 's boat to be brought alongside and its passengers to be embarked . |
| 6 | It was Hua who gave the order for Jiang Qing and her associates to be arrested along with many of their supporters . |
| 7 | ‘ I do not know if I even have strength enough to regain the shelter I have just come from … ’ and her wings seemed to weaken by the second and her eyes to be pained . |
| 8 | If , however , I were to consider the more elaborate findings and reasons which they gave subsequently , then again I would hold their findings and their reasons to be unsustainable . |
| 9 | The final breaking point between Khomeini and the Shah came over relations with the United States , In July 1964 the government introduced a bill that allowed American military advisers and their families to be subject to American , no Iranian , courts . |
| 10 | Equally , the fact that in the case of machine-readable files technological advances reduces the need for archival records and their users to be located in physical proximity to one another , the possibility to link and integrate electronic cold-stores removed from the archive per se may result in significant economies of scale ( Morris 1992 ) . |
| 11 | Marine and Quaternary Geology : This group is concerned with the study of fundamental physical , chemical and biological processes which enable Quaternary climatic and environmental changes and their causes to be inferred on timescales of a million years to less than one year . |
| 12 | One of the things that those of us who were involved in local government campaigns were trying to do was to achieve some measure of redistribution in favour of all those lesbians and gays who do not belong to the charmed circles of The Swimming Pool Library — people who have no private income ; people who depend on their jobs and would welcome job security ; people who want council tenancies free of harassment , with friends and lovers of their choice ; people who want to meet others at venues which have disabled access , which are not commercially exploitative and which are run for the benefit of the community ; people who want to display affection or consensual desire publicly without fear of violence or arrest ; people who want to bring up children without intimidation from the courts or social workers ; people who have survived the indoctrination of the education system but do not want to see the next generation of lesbians and gays subjected to the same process ; people who wanted themselves and their lifestyles to be treated with respect by the health services . |
| 13 | Notice of the time and place of the proceedings must , on request , be sent to the requesting authority , or direct to the parties , to enable them and their representatives to be present . |
| 14 | POLICE have warned old people and their neighbours to be on the alert after a woman fell prey to bogus council workers . |
| 15 | He chose Abraham and his descendants to be the channels of his mercy to a fallen world . |
| 16 | … But private and particular corporations for charity , founded and endowed by private persons , are subject to the private government of those who erect them ; and therefore if there be no visitor appointed by the founder , I am of opinion that the law doth appoint the founder and his heirs to be visitors . |
| 17 | In what purports to be his will ( 9 May 1313 ) , which is singular in style , Schorne spoke of old age and rendered to God what was God 's ( his soul ) , to the earth what was the earth 's ( his body , in a tomb he had designated before the high altar of North Marston ) , and his goods to be divided between intercessors and the poor , for the welfare of his soul . |
| 18 | It was the custom when a foreign invader stepped on French soil for the relics of Denis and his companions to be set on the altar , from which they personally conducted the defence of the realm . |
| 19 | Whether they had much bearing on the ambition of Otto and his successors to be emperors may be doubted . |
| 20 | At the time of its first dispersal , however , the languages had sufficient in common for Cyril and his followers to be understood by the Moravians , who were subjects of Prince Rastislav . |
| 21 | Singing the booking form shows that you believe yourself and your companions to be physically fit and healthy to take part . |
| 22 | . Answers , the five of them , on a Christmas card , to and your cards to be in please , by first post , next Friday , the seventeenth . |