Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the easiest to get along with was Rosie Michelle , a small cheerful Cockney girl who was definitely in awe of no-one . |
| 2 | They rang the various commercial recorded lines which hinted they were offering sexual innuendo , which proved only to be glamour girls talking about dieting or holiday-making . |
| 3 | British domination of Egypt was set up by Sir Evelyn Baring ( soon to be Lord Cromer and known to his subordinates as " the Lord " ) . |
| 4 | With Sir Walter — soon to be Lord Marshall of Goring and known also to environmentalists as ‘ The Dark Lord ’ — leading the scientific battles of claim and counter-claim , at times the acid rain issue seemed to follow a pantomime script full of cries of ‘ oh yes you did ’ and ‘ oh no we did n't ’ . |
| 5 | The really important event , however , was J T ‘ Pussy ’ Richardson 's two goals in South Bank 's 3-0 defeat of Auckland Town — soon to be Bishop Auckland — in the inaugural Northern League fixture . |
| 6 | Dr Carl Chinn , Birmingham graduate , former bookie and soon to be Community Historian in Birmingham Studies at the University , speaks out in defence of his home city , which in 1989 voted him ‘ Brummie of the Year ’ . |
| 7 | Shortly to be Miss Sherlock Holmes . |
| 8 | After all , these chairs were built to be used , not to be museum pieces . |
| 9 | We had , ‘ shaved our heads so as not to be sex objects , and boarded up our windows so that men in the street could n't see in ’ . |
| 10 | If that Chancellor is not to be Mr Lamont , he could quickly become as unpopular as Mr Lamont . |
| 11 | The Coroner complimented me on my prompt reporting of the find , and after a short deliberation declared them not to be Treasure Trove and handed them back to me . |
| 12 | I was talking to David this afternoon , and he feels it 's too much of a coincidence for me not to be Lilian Parsons 's surviving twin . |
| 13 | These boys , however , turned out not to be aggro leaders at all . |
| 14 | A few S-100 protein + , comparatively large elements ( deemed not to be nerve fibres ) were seen scattered or as small clusters in the villous lamina propria ( Fig 1A ) . |
| 15 | Being Hereford 's keeper though , is rather like being King Canute . |
| 16 | FED UP with being Beatles copyists , the Stones invented the riff that would sustain them forever , flipped the finger to the authorities that wanted them jailed , punched hippies in the throat and threw the blues into a seething vat of hydrochloric sex acid . |
| 17 | Ill be sending my comments on the Sunderland Match later — but a revolutionary idea we came up with was velcro shirts … with stick on everything … |
| 18 | I had been trying to get a membership list for the Cicero Club , but the only other name I could come up with was George Macready , a scarfaced iceman who had a profitable share of the City 's gambling and was best known for his sword-extruding walking stick . |
| 19 | It was also to be Andrew Knight 's last executive action : he is becoming a non-executive deputy chairman as Conrad Black , holding 80 per cent of the shares , assumes daily control . |
| 20 | The second factor is less obviously helpful at first glance but what it adds up to is calorie saving ! |
| 21 | It would have been hard for the toughest , most stable and secure character to stand up to being dream symbol to the world . |
| 22 | He faxes me , not to own up to being Clark Kent , but to draw attention to the fact that he is giving his surplus Y-fronts to Mary Loudon ( author of Nuns Unveiled , Chatto it says here ) for onward transmission to the homeless . |
| 23 | WHY FAMOUS NAMES QUEUE UP TO BE AMBULANCE CASES |
| 24 | In the summer of 1924 , during my first year at Eton , Ras Tafari , later to be Emperor Haile Selassie but at that time Regent , paid a State Visit to England and invited my mother and me to call on him in London . |
| 25 | It included such as Wanda Staniszewska , Jackie Gallagher , Buddy Rozynski ( cousin of Louis Dudek ) and Aileen Collins ( later to be Mrs L. Dudek ) , Robert A. Currie , Yaffa Lerner , Anna Azzulo , Betty Sutherland ( later Mrs Sutherland Layton ) , and Dudek himself . |
| 26 | This attitude was most apparent in a speech given in the Isle of Dogs in 1978 by Sir Geoffrey Howe , later to be Mrs Thatcher 's first Chancellor ( Howe , 1978 ) . |
| 27 | In 1971 Michael ( two years later to be Sir Michael ) Clapham succeeded Lord Kings Norton as Chairman of the Council , and Edwin Kerr was appointed to take over from Frank Hornby in 1972 . |
| 28 | It was Molly Piggott , later to be Molly Curdle , who took out Ruth Bassett 's little nephew Paul Young each afternoon . |
| 29 | Very near by is Maggie Woods Loan , which is named after the bird . |
| 30 | One pairing to watch out for is David Hudd and Nick Irens and their new quoted vehicle , Vardon . |