Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [am/are] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This being a self-acting incline the empty trucks were dragged up by the full ones , the long chain or rope to which they were linked , passing , of course , around the sheaved wheel the stanchions for which are still to be seen . |
| 2 | The Percys subsequently appear as lords of Leconfield , who built an 84 roomed castle west of Main Street , the old and original part of Leconfield , surrounded by a wide and deep moat , the remains of which are still to be seen . |
| 3 | James Harris , writing in 1751 , saw that ‘ all Conversation passes between Particulars or Individuals ’ , and argued that when , at the formative stages of human language , a speaker met another whose name he did not know he addressed him by using ‘ , that is , Pointing , or Indication by the Finger or Hand , some traces of which are still to be observed as a part of that Action which naturally attends our speaking ’ . |
| 4 | Allowing for a level of coding somewhere between the highly specific and detailed CODOT scheme and that of OPCS , in which are sometimes to be found rather heterogeneous categories . |
| 5 | " At the east end modern windows are made to the kitchen and chamber , over which are yet to be seen part of three antient lancet windows of the chancel , the center one somewhat higher and larger than the other two ; which were before the alterations deep and narrow . |