Example sentences of "be [noun sg] [prep] [noun prp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been reference for Jenny to be |
| 2 | For those like me who fail to make it to the banks of the Styx , there is compensation at Vlykhada to the north , near Areopolis . |
| 3 | In the figure is the wage rate ( the ‘ social ’ wage , i.e. inclusive of the marginal value product and the fiscal residuum ) and there is migration from R to S to the extent of L o L 1 , leading to an output loss measured by triangle 123 . |
| 4 | A Saturday trip with Barbara 's mother who 's visitng from Manchester to the superstore on the edge of the town takes minutes by car . |
| 5 | Ted ought to have been there years ago , he said , and now it 's time for Margaret to be elevated . |
| 6 | The correspondence of Alcuin reveals that there was opposition within Mercia to the succession of Ecgfrith , presumably from princes who felt in danger of being excluded from the succession , and Offa evidently embarked on what could be described as a purge of these opponents . |
| 7 | I was second at Cosford to Earl Tulloch , 21.9 seconds to his 21.7 . |
| 8 | The pope was father in God to the Romans , and to all men ; he was St Peter in person , the earthly representative of the apostle on whom the fame and fortune of the city most depended ; but he was also a petty tyrant — one of the ancient rulers who had failed to go away ; the symbol of all that was alien to the new found liberty so loved by the Italian city dwellers of the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 9 | For some part of the next three decades he was chaplain in London to Denzil , first Baron Holles of Ifield ( whose will he witnessed in 1670 ) , and to Sir John Maynard [ qq.v. ] , both parliamentarian veterans . |
| 10 | Every instant of her time from when she got back from work till it was time for Emily to be tucked up in bed was devoted exclusively to her precious little daughter . |