Example sentences of "[noun sg] to be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And Capriati admitted she is not prepared to wait for ever to achieve her ambition to be world No 1 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Where these are rising the main stimulus to be motorway development . |
| 8 | The events of 936 and the imperial coronation of 962 bore witness to Otto I 's determination to be Charlemagne redivivus . |
| 9 | The Yanks consider the Chainsaw to be punk rock . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The desire to be Miles Hunt soon led to the Levellers . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A manufacturing company would be expected to maintain a 1:1 ratio to be credit worthy . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Former gang members shall be given a chance to be patrol buddies in assisting in the protection of the neighbourhoods . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Your chance to be LIFESTYLE STAR ! win a 500 outfit from Jaeger |
| 22 | ‘ I 've no wish to be crocodile fodder . ’ |
| 23 | He 's got ta miles and miles back next week and then he 's going back to following week to be lift driver . |
| 24 | " the Under Roome of the howse wherein the Schoole ys nowe kepte to and for the use of the Schoole to be kepte theere for ever . |
| 25 | The umpires are calling for their new chairman to be Roy Kerslake , a Taunton lawyer and a former Somerset cricketer . |
| 26 | Er the erm the environmental health check I think he did discuss it at fantastic length , the question of our public lavatories an an and the savings that can be made and the judgement it came to in the end was a , was a very one I think on the outlook against of what you can reasonably do , erm nevertheless I do gather that erm erm it is no longer necessary under standing orders , for erm amendments to the budget to be self financing because you can move amendments to simply increase the budget and er the amendment that I reserve I suppose , it 's not very much . |
| 27 | This is another addition to 's SW Region 's operations . |
| 28 | Robin Leigh-Pemberton , who has a full-time job as Governor of the Bank of England in addition to being Lord Lieutenant of Kent , sits on an estate of 2,400 acres . |
| 29 | In addition to being Microsoft Corp 's front-line defence against the forces of Sun Microsystems Inc WABI binary interface for Windows applications under Unix , and providing the MS-DOS and Windows emulator on most other vendors ' Unix machines , Insignia last week became one of only 12 companies to get on Apple Computer Inc 's ‘ Inside Track ’ programme . |
| 30 | In addition to being Microsoft Corp 's front-line defence against the forces of WABI and being the MS-DOS/Windows emulator on practically everyone else 's box , Insignia last week became one of only 12 companies to get on Apple Computer Inc 's ‘ Inside Track ’ programme . |