Example sentences of "with [adj] [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | With little money to be made in New Zealand , Fitzsimmons moved to New South Wales in Australia to further his fight career before emigrating to the United States . |
| 2 | I was wandering between the stalls , searching , though with little hope to be honest , when a bright object caught my eye : hanging from a music stand , beside the piano , was a three-inch knitted choirboy in pink and purple with white knitted ruff . |
| 3 | He fears that a private-sector British track-owner would be a monopolist with little incentive to be efficient . |
| 4 | Questions were raised in the House of Commons about a group of local hippies arrested early in 1967 , and local MPs vied with each other to be in the vanguard of efforts to control the ‘ army of secret drug takers in the area … ( who need to be ) brought back from the brink of madness ’ ( Newcastle Evening Chronicle : 27 February 1967 ) . |
| 5 | Then there are incidents in which some spectators vie with each other to be the one to be heard on TV to shout ‘ you the man ’ just as the player connects with his shot — sometimes interrupting his downswing . |
| 6 | They are competing vigorously with each other to be last . |
| 7 | Now , although there were no signs of any elephants , the shop was besieged by crowds of equally persistent villagers competing with each other to be served . |
| 8 | Elean : A theme that recurs in your Soweto Stories is the theme of keeping the families together , not allowing their innate sense of solidarity with each other to be smashed and replaced by rampant individualism — on the other hand you show very sharply the negative side in this tradition , for example how it impacts on women . |
| 9 | I do n't think it had anything to do with my wanting to make my ‘ mark ’ , or with some ambition to be the newest Mr Huntington . |
| 10 | This time , with some need to be cautious and not show her hand too soon , she said nothing to Ellen whom she judged would most likely have forgotten she had sworn to come and get Oreste herself . |
| 11 | An hour later Perdita sidled into the yard with wet hair to be confronted by Frances quivering with ecstatic disapproval . |
| 12 | The cockcrow itself is too laden with old significance to be just a motif . |
| 13 | Feminism is always too concerned with social change to be only utilitarian . |
| 14 | Finally , it is worth dwelling briefly on the role that users play in the innovation process , and on the factors which seem to be associated with successful innovation , since these are considerations which help to determine whether joint R&D activities need to be coupled with joint marketing to be successful . |
| 15 | Large conspicuous wooden figures , Dotty and Dolly , and beneath their knees skulked little Alix Doddridge , creeping quietly , smiling obsequiously , keeping a low profile , longing to be ordinary , longing with such passion to be unnoticed , to be accepted , to be one of the crowd , not Dotty 's Daughter , with all that that implied . |
| 16 | Students would be too busy with real life to be bothered about social problems and conditions . |
| 17 | In a regional study including about 10% of the Danish population we found the population relative risk of ulcerative colitis and Crohn 's disease among first degree relatives of patients with either disease to be about 10 , which strongly suggests that these disorders have a genetic cause . |
| 18 | Behind the road-builders trundled wagons laden with graded stone to be pounded and pulverised into place to make a road which was intended to last for centuries to come . |
| 19 | Richard Fynes noted that : ‘ The men were sufficiently endowed with natural interest to be observant of the effect of wind upon the ventilation of the mines , and even as late as 1822 , before barometers and thermometers were generally used in the pits to indicate the state of the temperature , if the wind were blowing from the southeast threatening rain , the men refused to work . ’ |
| 20 | We hope that this booklet provides you with useful information to be used as a starting point — to start thinking about the issues that HIV and AIDS may raise for us in our lives and to start talking with and listening to our lovers , families , friends and colleagues in an informed , non-judgmental way . |
| 21 | The office of seneschal or king-duke 's lieutenant in Aquitaine was therefore not a specialized one , although the tendency for men with legal training to be appointed increased as difficulties over the respective spheres of Capetian and Plantagenet jurisdiction in Aquitaine multiplied in the 1280s and early 1290s . |
| 22 | The box having been placed upon the table , he ordered it with great eagerness to be opened . |
| 23 | So far as I know there is no definition of what constitutes a Cabinet Committee and , as the practice has grown , I believe there may be among the 70-odd Committees in the book some with less title to be treated as Cabinet Committees than some of the 700-odd interdepartmental committees of which we have no detailed information at all . |
| 24 | Our regiment is to go to Colrane and twenty four soldiers stay in Ballycastle with one gentleman to be their . |
| 25 | After he had had a sandwich m the Market Burger House , he loaded the van with small stuff to be returned and went out delivering . |
| 26 | One woman told her that " the men get the more experienced and difficult work " , while another reported that she thought " the work very pleasant and suitable for women … but has sometimes found working with small type to be a slight strain on her eyesight " . |
| 27 | For elderly people assessment facilities were to be provided in each locality , with long-term care to be given in the private sector . |
| 28 | New Scientist should not allow the first weapons with terminal guidance to be installed before noting that the accuracy is needed to destroy missiles in hardened concrete silos : in other words for a first strike . |
| 29 | Small businesses were , however , specially protected from the effects of the squeeze , the domestic banks being instructed to reserve at least 20 per cent of their available credit for smaller commercial borrowers , with particular favour to be shown to those in eastern Indonesia . |
| 30 | Postmen were waiting there to take it on bicycle to the outlying villages and make the return journey with outgoing mail to be despatched on the 6.20 pm train to Hull . |