Example sentences of "in [adj] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unlikely stud causing all this hormonal activity is Palm Beach cop Jack Dobson — the distinctly unsexy James Belushi struggling in vain to be Michael Douglas — who is having a secret affair with rich , frustrated socialite Ellen Schofield , Lorraine Bracco dripping in diamonds . |
| 2 | Her mother hoped in vain to be punctual one Sunday . |
| 3 | Pending further research , I can not consider the word in 10.1 to be inconsistent with the language of the rest of the book and therefore evidence of interpolation . |
| 4 | On the other hand , the LFS data which encompassed such temporary working and which allowed the situation in 1986 to be compared to that in 1983 , also showed no real growth in the proportion of the workforce in temporary employment . |
| 5 | The cost of achieveing this at the chlor-alkali plants in runcorn by installing new technology was estimated in 1986 to be about £200 million , ’ said Phil . |
| 6 | Lord Derby had again become Prime Minister in 1866 to be replaced for a short period by Benjamin Disraeli , but by the end of 1868 Mr. W. E. Gladstone took control of Parliament , and was to remain in control for over five years . |
| 7 | Phemister , who had taken part in early geophysical work by the Survey between 1926 and 1931 , was transferred to London in 1935 to be Chief Petrographer . |
| 8 | After proctors of the lower clergy had objected in 1269 to being committed to a grant simply by the assent of the bishops , a council of prelates in the next year agreed on their own behalf to a subsidy of one twentieth for the king , but only extended it to the rest of the clergy after approval by diocesan synods . |
| 9 | Finding the work ‘ quite fun ’ , from then on his commercial career was set to remain in the media industry , moving in 1980 to be director of Pearson 's information and entertainment division then , in 1984 , becoming managing director of Virgin group where , operationally , he was responsible for the record , video , entertainment and retail businesses ( including the group 's Megastores ) . |
| 10 | He was sufficiently well educated in Latin to be able to crack a Latin joke at the expense of a less learned Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 11 | Firstly , it causes the time period between the date of the accident and the appearance of the report in public to be extended , usually by at least six months . |
| 12 | John Shaw now in his eighty fifth year managed the company until his retirement in 1972 to be followed by John Darbyshire . |
| 13 | IBM expects the world economy in 1993 to be no better than this year , and the workforce reductions will come from manufacturing and development organisations and in marketing and services units , principally from support areas . |
| 14 | Their numbers in further and higher education colleges in the UK alone were estimated in 1985 to be more than 55,000 , representing remarkable progress even by comparison with the situation 15 years earlier when none but a few pioneering colleges made any special effort to accommodate students with disabilities or learning difficulties . |
| 15 | He earns a bonus of 1 per cent of the rise in the company 's value and Direct Line has grown from virtually nothing in 1985 to be worth around £800 million . |
| 16 | " Female comps " were in future to be paid for " inserting leads [ i.e. spacing material ] and justification " . |
| 17 | If , therefore , prisoners are in future to be told the judicial recommendation as to the tariff period , many judges may think it appropriate to announce their own recommendations publicly in court when passing sentence . |
| 18 | You almost had me believing that your family secrets were in future to be mine . |
| 19 | The Commander of the 40th Army was in future to be appointed by decree of the Kazakh President ( the current incumbent remained ) . |
| 20 | The Environment Ministry 's proposed Packaging Ordinance states that : " The causers of packaging pollution — trade and industry — are in future to be responsible for taking back , recycling , re-using and disposing of their products " . |
| 21 | This is when the pupil is still coming to terms with using a low vision aid and is not yet skilful in its use , but needs to read text and notes that are too advanced in content to be available in the large print of junior and early reading books . |
| 22 | She had n't been prepared for the way poetry came into this fitting together of parts , Shall I believe that unsubstantial Death is amorous , and that the lean abhorrèd monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour , she recited in her head , as O'Hara climbed on top and humped her beneath the rude unshaded bulb . |
| 23 | As it made the historic journey from being a charity team for Irish immigrants in Glasgow 's East End in 1888 to being a European Cup winning team in 1967 , there is a widely held myth that the club resents spending money and keeps its funds in the infamous biscuit tin , a closely guarded money chest under the Parkhead bed . |
| 24 | We do not know at what date Matilda had gone to Wilton , but probably she had come from Scotland as a young girl with her aunt Christina in 1086 to be educated at Wilton . |
| 25 | Similarly , 15 and 16 show ab — in abnormal to be a semantic constituent : |
| 26 | The war itself gave an immense stimulus to trade , leading to an increase of 60 per cent in Japanese exports in 1950 to be followed by an increase of similar proportion in 1951 on the 1950 figures . |
| 27 | San Diego , California-based Acucobol Inc will preview AcuView 1.1 , the latest release of its graphics package for Cobol , which enables reports written in Acucobol-85 to be presented as graphs , charts and tables ; it provides 124 standard chart designs including bar charts , pie charts , table charts and word charts , and a range of customisation options . |
| 28 | The package enables reports written in Acucobol-85 to be presented as graphs , charts and tables . |
| 29 | However , he impressed Sir Clements Markham [ q.v. ] , who selected him to command the SY Morning in 1902 to be sent to the relief of the Discovery expedition of Robert Falcon Scott [ q.v . ] . |
| 30 | San Antonio is , however , only one site in many to be investigated in detail by archaeologists and geomorphologists and it is too early to extrapolate from there to the Maya lowlands in general . |