Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rare defence decision not to be controversial . |
| 2 | It was at the end of the Fifties that the joke became popular about one high-powered executive calling another on his car telephone only to be told : ‘ He 's on the other line ’ . |
| 3 | Now Sammy was a character in himself he was a bachelor and his wi his sister was Fanny the elocutionist er and , and er there the women used to , to go into old Sammy 's shop on a Friday night simply to be entertained by all the wisecracks and nonsense that used to go on in there , and somebody would say I suppose you 're off this weekend and he 'd say yes I 'm off to my little widow in Wales , he had n't got a little widow in Wales at all now but it would the start of the conversation going . |
| 4 | Transferring to an alternative medium requires new data formats yet to be standardised and dependence on a new generation of hardware to read or download stored information . |
| 5 | This latter system , which was then available in at least some cases in Belgium , France , Greece , Italy and the Netherlands , allows legally effective service on a defendant resident abroad to be made by leaving the relevant document at the office of the parquet in the forum state . |
| 6 | Then there was Aengus , the youngest : his owlish glasses made him look studious and he was the only Foley boy not to be chosen for some kind of team in the school . |
| 7 | Stag hunting in Scotland and many people Fox hunt , hare hunting is another field sport not to be confused with people who shoot rabbits . |
| 8 | With costly building work still to be done , Liverpool are faced with their worst cash crisis of modern times , despite winning the FA Cup last season . |
| 9 | He made a grunting noise just to be sure that Gurder heard him . |
| 10 | But copper , the major London Metal Exchange contract still to be denominated in pounds , did benefit . |
| 11 | The special nature of the facts of the case mean that it has a very narrow reading and for this reason might amount to nothing more than an amalgam of common law duties not to be dishonest . |
| 12 | Their cornucopian haul was to realise more than £10,000 in bills and banknotes , thus making it the largest highway robbery yet to be achieved . |
| 13 | In a biography about the former England captain about to be published , the rift which existed between the pair for the final 15 months of Lineker 's international career is at last revealed . |
| 14 | Nineteenth-century specialist François Perreau-Saussine of Galerie du Carrousel has dropped in , together with Nicolas Joly from Galerie Yves Mikaeloff who is presenting ten pre-cubist and cubist drawings by Andre Mare alongside seventeenth- and eighteenth-century works , including an early La Hyre and one of the few Nicolas Mignards still to be found outside the Louvre . |
| 15 | But he had already scored both Arsenal goals — which may surprise Graham Taylor , who picked him for his England squad only to be told he 's not fit enough . |
| 16 | If there was one ( albeit very small ) consolation about the sale of Dave Batty , it was that it finally did away with an important inferiority complex of mine — was I the only person in West Yorkshire not to be best mates with the man ? ? |
| 17 | Cover with a piece of oiled foil or greaseproof paper and a board , or the base of one of the removable-base tart or cake tins now to be found in many kitchen utensil shops , to fit exactly inside the dish . |
| 18 | Was young Donald sound enough to be sent to contact other families ? |
| 19 | He described the attack as a ‘ crime against humanity ’ and urged Mr Brooke not to be ‘ hustled ’ into steps which could only aggravate the situation . |
| 20 | THE biggest swimming event ever to be held in the area , the European Sprint championships featuring many of the world 's top swimmers , will take place at Felling on November 27–28 next year . |
| 21 | HEALTH watchdogs yesterday welcomed news of a vital body scanner soon to be installed at Darlington Memorial Hospital . |
| 22 | Top G ♮ and G ♯ are also available by means of the pedal mechanism about to be explained . |
| 23 | In order to escape from the situation , my two colleagues below the surface unhooked from the safety line only to be swept away by the current . |
| 24 | This will cause approval listings not to be produced when users prepare a package for approval using option 1.5.2 — Prepare package For Approval and will enable them to grant approval to a package immediately if they feel able to do so . |
| 25 | Yet Bennett was the only wartime Group commander not to be knighted . |
| 26 | ‘ It would be an absurd nonsense for Chelmsford cathedral not to be allowed to sell these items to visitors to the cathedral . ’ |
| 27 | While Tshwete was in Australia and New Zealand following the Cricket World Cup , a leading ANC sports activist , Mr Mluleki George , who also chairs the NOSC ( the National Olympic and Sports Congress , recognised by most Commonwealth governments as the voice of non-Olympic sports in South Africa ) , wrote letters to the governing bodies and the authorities in Australia , New Zealand , France and England demanding they ban or discourage the planned tours to and from the Republic , arguing that the development programme about to be launched by the SARFU was only a smokescreen designed to provide a cover for the international aspirations of the white rugby establishment . |
| 28 | Any rock and border plants still to be lifted , split-up and re-planted should be dealt with as soon as possible . |
| 29 | We have doubled our medical input to our immunisation clinics and struggled through the difficulties of vaccine availability only to be informed that we are working for no reward . |
| 30 | One of the finest wall paintings yet to be uncovered in Britain has been found in the chapel at Chester Castle . |