Example sentences of "[noun sg] to be [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ God sent all artists here because it can be such a drag to be on this planet , ’ said the star . |
| 2 | For Kelsen , the dynamic principle is characteristic of legal positivism which understands law to be in some sense a product of human acts and decisions rather than a deduction from timeless and immutable principles . |
| 3 | It was always my dream to be in that situation . |
| 4 | This was the time that Farnborough was the place to be for many reasons . |
| 5 | It 's just those few , committed capitalists that see profits as the only , the only motive to be on this earth , that seem to be , was was they seem to have the influence in this in this country , and and like er , I 'm I 'm hoping that this er , er British Government objection to the Court of Justice does fail , as as is er suggested it may do , erm , and let's let's hope it does , and let's hope that we get this er , implemented . |
| 6 | The Statements of Attainment need to be in some ways " unpacked " in relation to the chosen programme of study and reordered not in sequence of difficulty but in terms of their place in the programme to ensure that opportunities for assessment are capitalised upon . |
| 7 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 8 | All them things in there that 's no business to be in that carrier . |
| 9 | It really gives me a kick to be of some use like this . ’ |
| 10 | I do n't believe that I am really going to have the chance to be in this movie . |
| 11 | My dealer lacks sufficient knowledge to be of any help . |
| 12 | What was your role to be in this operation ? |
| 13 | 'she wanted an excuse to be at that bus-stop when Billy got off , because she knew what was going to happen . |
| 14 | Yeah , really it 's a frustrating end of it , but working for Time gives me the opportunity to be in these countries and to do a good photoreportage on the country , even though it 's very rarely published . |
| 15 | Ostensibly asexual lineages of fish and salamanders have been shown by analysis of their mitochondrial DNA to be of some antiquity ( 4–5 million and 100,000 years , respectively ) . |
| 16 | He had reason to be in that camp … |
| 17 | It 's not so much their habit of closing their wings just as you draw close enough to see ; it 's more their unwillingness to be in any way uniform . |
| 18 | The Prince of Orange , unable to resist the lure of danger , galloped from the crossroads to be with those troops closest to the enemy , and the Prince 's staff , their luncheon brutally interrupted by the French gun-fire , hurried after him . |
| 19 | Though fugue is regarded as too tonal a form to be of any use , many other old contrapuntal devices of the Renaissance and Baroque periods have been revived in serial composition , especially canon in its many forms . |
| 20 | It should be noted before going any further that for a sample survey to be of any value at all the sampling procedure must be open to scrutiny and stand up to criticism . |
| 21 | Erm , clearly you need to have a detrusor pressure in order to be behind that flow , and if this pressure is less than fifty then I think it 's unlikely that there 's much in the way of obstruction . |
| 22 | In most happy marriages , husband and wife continue to make time to be with each other , and to understand each other . |
| 23 | A good length of time to be in this position is about twenty minutes . |