Example sentences of "be [prep] [be] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Nevertheless , if pragmatics is to be considered a component within linguistic theory ( a question to which we shall return ) , it may be that to include such principles is indeed to include too much . |
| 32 | Therefore , if any mosaic in the region is to be considered a focus of widespread foreign contacts this must surely be it . |
| 33 | It is significant that the court held that ‘ in a criminal case of this nature , where the wife is the party grieved and on whom the crime is committed , she is to be admitted a witness against her husband ’ and there is no specific mention of a marital rape exemption by any party at any stage of the proceedings . |
| 34 | To help boost the use of patent information by the local business community , Liverpool 's council-run Central Library is to be awarded a grant of £5,000 to help library staff assist local innovators . |
| 35 | seminar which is to be held a week on Saturday in Ipswich from which we hope will er quite a bit by a way of input to the forthcoming lorry management plan , thank you . |
| 36 | Later the same year , he was to be denied a place in the British Olympic football team on the grounds that he was a professional cricketer . |
| 37 | Janice was to be made a scapegoat . |
| 38 | In North Africa a Christian militancy developed , and the supreme ambition was to be granted a martyr 's crown . |
| 39 | Born in York on 16th October , 1918 , he was baptised in St George 's Church where he was to be ordained a priest on 8th April , 1945 . |
| 40 | Further , in consideration of £20 paid to his master , William was to be allowed a modicum of pocket money : 6d. per week for the first year , 1s. a week for the second , 2s. a week for the third and 3s. a week for the fourth . |
| 41 | A first-class chief was to be offered a carpet , rather than a rug , to sit on , and the Resident was to rise both to receive him and to dismiss him . |