Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun prp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as I have been able to discover , the first papers in French West Africa to be owned and controlled by Africans were Le Cri Nègre and Le Phare du Dahomey . |
| 2 | Livingston became the third British athlete after pole vaulter Jeff Gutteridge and shot-putter Neal Brunning to be banned for failing a drugs test . |
| 3 | To investigate this ability of different recombinant GGFs to be secreted , we determined for the two human cDNA clones the distribution of total expressed GGF ( Schwann cell mitogenic ) activity between cell lysate and conditioned medium after transient mammalian transfections ( Table 2 ) . |
| 4 | They were in fact the first of the so-called Friendly Islands to be seen by Europeans : the Dutch navigators Willem Corneliszoon Schouten and Jacob LeMaire spotted them in April 1616 . |
| 5 | ‘ Hummingbird , will you take this man Buffalo to be your husband for one year , in the name of Earth and the animals ? ’ |
| 6 | One difficulty encountered in verifying the explanation proposed above is a pair of sentences with the to infinitive cited by van Ek ( 1966 : 151 ) as examples of " see denoting physical rather than mental perception " : ( 51 ) It ( viz. Mrs B. " s death ) might be soon , for I can see worthy Mrs Bonner to be breaking visibly . |
| 7 | But a big NME ‘ must do better ’ to the 3,788 entries that believed cute , foppish Lancastrian Stuart Maconie to be Irish ! |
| 8 | The United Nations had ordered new sanctions on Serbia and its little ally Montenegro to be applied if the Bosnian Serbs refused to give their final assent to the Vance-Owen peace plan . |
| 9 | This upsurge is reckoned by the environmental consultant Ecotec to be growing at 17 per cent a year , and to be worth 108m currently . |
| 10 | Revised Programme for 27th June Qualified Teachers Day To be held at Quintin Kynaston School , St. John 's Wood |
| 11 | To all whom this epistle shall come , Greetings — Whereas we have been credibly informed by our well-beloved subject the right honourable Lord Clovelly , of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk , and on behalf of our well-beloved subject Christopher Everard , Gentleman , that the said Christopher Everard hath lately discovered several Islands in the Hesperidean seas towards the continent of America , the one called Saint Thomas 's , alias Everhope ( though this be error ) , or in the native tongue Liamuiga , and another , as the savages of those parts name it , Oualie ; that we are further informed that these said Islands are possessed and inhabited only by the aforementioned savages and heathen people , and are not , nor at the time of the discovery were , in the possession or under the government of any Christian Prince , state or potentate , and thereupon the said Christopher Everard , being set forth and supplied on our shores for that purpose , made entry into the said Islands for and on behalf of our dear Father in heaven , and hath since with the consent and good liking of the natives made some beginning of a plantation and colony and likewise of an hopeful trade there , and hath caused divers of our subjects of this realm to remove themselves to the said Islands with purpose to proceed in so hopeful a work : KNOW THEREFORE that the said Lord Clovelly and Christopher Everard may be encouraged and the better enabled with the more ample maintenance and authority to effect the same , We do command the said Christopher Everard to be possessed of the said Islands and all our other loving subjects under him : And of our especial great and certain knowledge have given and granted unto the said Christopher Everard during our pleasure custody of the aforesaid Islands and of every creature , man , woman and child upon them together with full power and authority for us and in our name and as our Lieutenant to govern rule and order all . |
| 12 | See Martin Sheen drunkenly method act himself into a heart attack , watch made Marlon improvise pure nonsense out of thin air and discover the real-life Dennis Hopper to be more manic than his character . |
| 13 | Amina Shah would like her four-year-old daughter Anna to be in a reception class rather than the nursery class where she will stay till she is nearly five . |
| 14 | At the Marée in the market place of Rouen there are delicious fish dishes , excellent food at the Beffroy in the rue du Beffroy , all the more unexpected because the place looks too like Ye Olde Bunne Shoppe to be true . |