Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] be [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The females had dropped their young and reared them to the point where they could survive to be next year 's prey . |
| 2 | Intel Corp 's Scientific Computer Division is expected to be first to market in December , with an installation at Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Tennessee . |
| 3 | " But is it really likely , sir , that the call was intended to delay the finding of the body and to give the killer time to replace the keys ? admittedly Mrs. Bidwell could be expected to be first in the Biology Department this morning when she put out the clean coats . |
| 4 | His last game is expected to be next week 's Division Two game between Billingham Town and Cleveland Bridge . |
| 5 | At 13 he sailed as apprentice to a ship-owner operating out of Whitehaven in Cumberland , 36 miles [ 58 km ] south-west of Carlisle , and from ship 's boy rose to be third mate on a ‘ black-birder ’ or slave ship . |
| 6 | There has to be first aid as well as long-term treatment to world problems . |
| 7 | Coun Jack Warwick ( Lab ) a retired Yorkshire Water authority official and Coun Eric Dixon ( Ind ) a retired education authority officer , have both been nominated to be next Mayor of Scarborough . |
| 8 | On the rostrum Joey said : ‘ You really need to be the first man at the Metropole if you want to be first at the finishing line . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ And you want to be first in line to give it them . ’ |
| 10 | Broke Britt : I want to be next Jackie Collins |
| 11 | It must also strive to be first with the news , especially that emanating from within its national boundaries . |
| 12 | It must also strive to be first with the news , especially that emanating from within its national boundaries . |
| 13 | Although this turned out be the quietest piece of the whole site , at the far extreme a very small hammered coin came to light which looks to be 16th/17th century and of Italian or Papal States origin . |
| 14 | Instead , whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant , and whoever wants to be first must be your slave — just as the Son of Man did not come to be served , but to serve , and to give his life as a ransom for many ’ ' ( Matthew 20:25–28 ) . |
| 15 | Daley 's driven by success and always wants to be first to finish . |
| 16 | New Zealand is where Barnes wants to be next summer as part of the British Lions tour managed by England 's Geoff Cooke . |
| 17 | But today the man who wants to be next the Health Secretary did his bit for the local campaign . |
| 18 | Because Linnaeus worked in western Europe , it tends to be the European form which is seen as typical in this sense ; and of course it is accidental which species in a group happens to be first described and hence seen as typical . |
| 19 | A day 's golf with the president of this company or that company when the fellow who makes up the four and plays with the president of the corporation just happens to be last year 's Masters Champion . |
| 20 | Four of the extra 21 community stations are vying to be first on the air . |
| 21 | The ridge walks are said to be second only to those of the Cuillin in Skye in terms of drama and scenery . |
| 22 | Ross is made to be third murderer . |
| 23 | Recent scientific investigations have established that an old timber dwelling-house in Schwyz called Haus Bethlehem , previously thought to be sixteenth century , in fact was constructed in the thirteenth century and is the oldest timber " chalet " in Switzerland . |
| 24 | The Pele Tower and the gallery are thought to be 14th Century . |
| 25 | After all , if you happened to be next him after dinner for ten minutes , he would get invaluable hints . |
| 26 | Nylons for the women , Coke for the kids and guns for the men to go on fighting ‘ Germins ’ or ‘ Reds ’ or whoever happened to be next in the firing line , that was William 's grandad 's uncluttered view of world history . |
| 27 | Indeed , studies in America suggest that individual economists rarely beat consensus forecasts consistently over time : this year 's forecasting star tends to be next year 's duffer . |
| 28 | Are you going to be first jockey for him next year ? ’ |
| 29 | " Who 's going to be first into that field ? |
| 30 | We 're going to be the first men at the South Pole , and that flag is going to be first , too ! ’ |