Example sentences of "[noun] to be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the economic forecasts are issued to the business units to be use d in their plans , none of the four planning departments insist that the numbers must be adhered to . |
| 2 | For 1865 only , he was MP for Stoke on Trent , which was near another Beresford estate , and in 1868 fulfilled his ambition to be University Member for Cambridge . |
| 3 | And Capriati admitted she is not prepared to wait for ever to achieve her ambition to be world No 1 . |
| 4 | I began broadcasting when I was twenty-one — it was what I wanted to do more than anything , if you do n't count an early ambition to be Hopalong Cassidy or Flash Gordon — and I do n't think I 've had many happier moments than acting in my first radio play . |
| 5 | Believing his benefactor to be Miss Havisham , he nourishes a fantasy that she intends him to marry Estella , whom he continues to love passionately , ‘ against reason , against promise , against peace , against hope , against happiness , against all discouragement there could be ’ . |
| 6 | Pc Keith Black went into the toilet with Mr. Smith and they found the figure to be Mr. Thurgood , wearing a T-shirt which fitted the soldiers ' description . |
| 7 | In other words , there are some activities , which although similar to investment business , are not deemed for the purposes of the Act to be investment business and therefore do not require authorization . |
| 8 | Where these are rising the main stimulus to be motorway development . |
| 9 | The events of 936 and the imperial coronation of 962 bore witness to Otto I 's determination to be Charlemagne redivivus . |
| 10 | The Queen has been pleased to approve the appointment of Sir Brian Fall KCMG to be HM Ambassador to the Russian Federation in succession to Sir Roderic Braithwaite KCMG , who will be retiring from the Diplomatic Service . |
| 11 | The Yanks consider the Chainsaw to be punk rock . |
| 12 | That community , for historical reasons , happens at the moment to be East Sussex , the whole of East Sussex including Brighton , Eastbourne , Hastings and so on , and a substantial slice of West Sussex , so that our open community courses are available in these areas . |
| 13 | He did not know that ten years would have to run before on 2 July 1976 the National Assembly of the united Socialist Republic of Vietnam endorsed the unification of the nation , proclaiming Saigon to be Ho Chi Minh city . |
| 14 | We have received no convincing answers either from UKOOA or the Government as to the procedure that needs to be observed to ensure that offshore workers not only enjoy the right to be trade union members but can have their trade unions recognised by their employers . |
| 15 | The spectacularly political appointments of the Thatcher years , like sending the right-wing journalist Lord Chalfont to be deputy chairman of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , are outnumbered by the nomination of much more traditional figures . |
| 16 | Mercifully , none could read English , as all our documents showed the Land Rover to be army property . |
| 17 | General practice and primary care need to be centre stage to ensure that the rhetoric of a transfer of resources from secondary to primary care does not actually entail an overall loss of resources . |
| 18 | The desire to be Miles Hunt soon led to the Levellers . |
| 19 | It would be necessary to allocate at random a group of people to smoke ( say ) 50 cigarettes per day and another group to be non-smoker controls . |
| 20 | We are providing a great deal of advice and training for officials of different carriers — and not merely for British Airways , because we do not expect airline officials to be immigration officers ; that is not their function . |
| 21 | A manufacturing company would be expected to maintain a 1:1 ratio to be credit worthy . |
| 22 | The ratio measuring this ability , often called the ‘ acid test ’ is A manufacturing company would be expected to maintain a 1 : 1 ratio to be credit worthy . |
| 23 | In particular , it has been shown that the conditions for a voting procedure to be strategy proof ( i.e. , no one has an incentive to vote strategically ) are equivalent to the Arrow conditions . |
| 24 | As for his ambitions to be Ryder Cup captain in the future , Ballesteros explained : ‘ I 'm not thinking of that . |
| 25 | The address to send stuff to is DR BUTCHER ( MD ) , COMMODORE FORCE , So , if Nurse Enema would be so kind as to wheel in the first vict … erm patient , I 'll sharpen my instruments . |
| 26 | He originally intended phonographs to be dictation machines in offices ( 5–6 ) , so shaving and reusing cylinders was a decided advantage . |
| 27 | Before she arrived on the scene the world expected princesses to be fairy-tale creatures with sweet , submissive dispositions and waist-length blonde hair . |
| 28 | Why were both Stirling and Perth in suitable and similar positions to be market towns ? |
| 29 | Former gang members shall be given a chance to be patrol buddies in assisting in the protection of the neighbourhoods . |
| 30 | To wit , the chance to be Ms Galahad , the Amazon on the white horse ( or , in this case , the dyke in the black taxi ) , who rescues the fair damozel in distress . |