Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over Christmas and the New Year , the best place to be is Disneyworld in Florida for truly magical celebrations . |
| 2 | 1993 , and the place to be is London ; the clothes , shops , cars , museums , parks , nightclubs , disco 's , pubs , casino 's , the ACTION … |
| 3 | 1993 , and the place to be is London , with all the good and the bad ! |
| 4 | It had something to do with history and the past , that excitement , and something to do with potential as well , with what Orwell or somebody had said , that every man really knew in his heart the finest place to be was the countryside on a summer 's day . |
| 5 | The episode had become part of family lore , as well as suggesting that the best place to be was Trazior itself . |
| 6 | Sheriff Carl Peed of Virginia in America , said the un-named officer was the first woman to be been sacked for sexual harassment . |
| 7 | Ala I want my writing to be is modest , restrained , colourful , truthful … . |
| 8 | And could I just say that I think that the issue of sustainability does also touch upon the need for the new settlement to be be located on a public transport corridor , preferably an existing public transport corridor , and I think again that argument for for s for somewhere where a rail link , preferably , could be provided , and that of course would tend to support all those factors tend to support a location on the Northern side of York rather than the Southern side of York . |
| 9 | We shall adopt a small arrow as our notation for assignment in this sense , so that ( 31 ) ( excluding irrelevant details like number , and the particular tense employed ) may be represented as ( 35 ) , where we again abbreviate by passing directly from the word forms to the intensional pattern : We may note , by the way , that the copular verb to be is the direct formal representation of the relation of assignment ; this has to be expressed overtly in English ( as well as being indicated by the order of noun and adjective ) , although in many other languages , e.g. Russian and Arabic , no overt exponent is required . |
| 10 | Notable among these is the fact that the mismatch of range is even greater than in the case of the prenominal adjectives ; it is true that one can usually expand a postnominal adjective to a relative clause containing be , though we should certainly note cases like : ( 31 ) he is dreaming of the whisky which will be galore with her arms which were akimbo she stared at Victor food which is aplenty is on sale in the end tent however , there is not the slightest difficulty about producing numerous examples where the relative clause with be is fully satisfactory but can not be reduced to a grammatical postnominal adjective . |
| 11 | It was almost a relief to be being attacked on this particular issue , because there were other far more personal ones to be dreaded . |
| 12 | ‘ Are you in a hurry to be be on your way , Mr Barnett ? ’ |
| 13 | It 's the best way to be in n it ? |