Example sentences of "of [noun prp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In early Rome this took place at the old New Year which was in March — the Ides of March to be precise . |
| 2 | De la Mare asked for the Earl of March to be appointed to the advisory group , together with the Earls of Warwick , Stafford and Suffolk . |
| 3 | Were the parents of Dronfield to be treated as naughty boys and girls , or were they to be treated as intelligent working people ? |
| 4 | Prime Minister has it in mind to recommend to Your Majesty the appointment of Fotherington-Smythe to be Lord Lieutenant of Borsetshire . ’ |
| 5 | Indeed , if his ( undated ) grant to the abbey of Fécamp ( S 949 ) is genuine , one might suppose that he visited the Norman coast at some time , and his generosity to a foundation which had been particularly favoured by the ducal family ( in 1001 Richard II invited the celebrated monastic reformer William of Dijon to be its abbot ) seems most likely to mean that his relations with them were still satisfactory . |
| 6 | The Downs were one of the first areas of Sussex to be colonised by man and were probably quickly cleared of their original vegetation of scrubby woodland . |
| 7 | This meant that the guest lists had to be scrutinized with great care and it required considerable awareness on the part of Eugénie to be able to decide who would match with whom . |
| 8 | Perhaps I was one of the first women in the entire province of Parma to be ‘ liberated ’ in that sense . |
| 9 | He agreed to preside over a public meeting of the inhabitants of Dundee to be held on 10 November 1819 to protest against ‘ the unprovoked , cruel and cowardly attack made on the people of Manchester ’ and ‘ to suggest the means most likely to lead to a reform of abuses ’ . |
| 10 | The town itself is in most respects unremarkable by comparison with its Devon neighbours , and like many of them flourished especially in the seventeenth century , heyday of the West Country cloth trade : when Celia Fiennes passed close by in 1698 , she found all Exeter and the country around making ‘ an incredible quantity of serges ’ which were sent from the port of Topsham to be sold in Europe . |
| 11 | The last of the four ancient universities of Scotland to be established , Edinburgh owes its origin to the Town Council who provided the necessary finances , procured the site , where Old College now stands , and negotiated for the Royal Sanction . |
| 12 | A few years back I was invited by the Church of England to be an ecumenical guest at a consultation , held at Ely , on the charismatic renewal movement . |
| 13 | It is not healthy for the 45 million people of England to be so dependent both economically and politically on decisions made at the centre . |
| 14 | GEMMs are required by the Bank of England to be separately established as companies or partnerships in the United Kingdom with their own dedicated sterling capital . |
| 15 | Special deposits are deposits of banks from time to time required by the Bank of England to be lodged in addition to normal reserve requirements . |
| 16 | But now he was going into space , and when he had made his fortune he would pay for the whole of Mali to be irrigated so it was as green as France . |
| 17 | The user can select the status of SSRs to be included in the report by entering one of the following values for the SSR Status field : |
| 18 | On this occasion the Duke of Bedford , who had paid for a statue of Bunyan to be erected in the town , recollected how Pilgrim 's Progress had been the first book given to him as a child . |
| 19 | And the pr we 're er , I would expect the profits of Thames to be in line with that that we expected when we acquired the business . |
| 20 | The potential profits of the buyers of the 60 per cent of Entel to be sold off would be reduced by being based on the purchase price of $1,900 million and not on the $3,500 million net asset value as fixed by the government . |
| 21 | The Memorial , signed by the Honorary Secretaries , was sent to the three Ministers on 24th March , 1858 , and ordered by the House of Commons to be published on the following day . |
| 22 | The one who made most of this influence was Walpole , Prime Minister for 21 years and an effective wheeler-dealer who tended to go beyond mere cogency of argument in persuading the House of Commons to be compliant to his will . |
| 23 | This ( Munn ) Report was thought by the Committee of the House of Commons to be altogether more sophisticated an analysis , with its recognition of the debatable nature of the fundamental principles underlying a specification of the school curriculum . |
| 24 | Neither Elizabeth nor James , he said , had allowed the Duchy of Lancaster to be absorbed into the Exchequer , because the abolition of its offices would have deprived them of valuable rewards for their servants . |
| 25 | Thibaud V was held by John of Salisbury to be one of the most learned lawyers of his day ; Philip of Alsace was a man of rare competence ; other princes gathered around them their band of learned advisers , their counsellors on whose pronouncements they could depend . |
| 26 | At least she had her uncle Somerset to watch over her on the journey , and the countess of Salisbury to be a mother to her until she was handed over at Cologne to Louis . |
| 27 | It was good to see so many familiar faces , some older , some heavier , some lighter ( well done , Father Roger Clarke ) , Father McNamara had interrupted his pilgrimage to the shrines of Blackpool to be with us . |
| 28 | What do you understand the attitude of Jesus to be towards the outcast and sinner as highlighted in the Lucan parables ? |
| 29 | The claim of Jesus to be the Messiah was made public when Jesus rode the donkey into Jerusalem . |
| 30 | Examples of such beliefs would include : belief in the Resurrection , the claim of Jesus to be God , the value of prayer and pilgrimage in relation to those who are sick . |