Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Was young Donald sound enough to be sent to contact other families ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ It would be an absurd nonsense for Chelmsford cathedral not to be allowed to sell these items to visitors to the cathedral . ’ |
| 9 | Students at Oxford University about to be covered in all sorts of disgusting things after their last exam . |
| 10 | I hope to build a V8 Land Rover mainly to be used on road so mpg and mph are important , but it must sound and look great ( wheels , tyres , etc. ) , do well off road and out perform my dad 's new Land Cruiser II Please could you give me some advice on model , diff ratio , tyres , etc. and initial purchase price . |
| 11 | The murals of Diego Rivera for the Secretariat of Public Education in Mexico City are admitted by the critic Antonio Rodriguez not to be all of an equally high standard , ‘ but what poet could keep up the same lyrical flow for a thousand verses ? |
| 12 | With Jenny Blyth nowhere to be found — vindictive press reports claiming that the marriage of the decade was on the rocks — he became embroiled in an unseemly dispute with his own club . |
| 13 | Last year , serious assaults soared by 45 per cent from 1991 , prompting Mr Sampson to warn the Tayside force not to be complacent in spite of a drive to target the most active criminals and make criminal intelligence more meaningful to beat bobbies . |
| 14 | IWOULD urge Jayne Greenwell not to be concerned about her son 's religious instruction . |
| 15 | So how can John Major claim now to be surprised by them ? — . |
| 16 | I 've scoured the the technical professional press to find out if there is some general statement which sums up what sustainability means , and the one which I 've seen most commonly referred to , I think , and the government has used it in this way , is a requirement to ensure the needs of the present generation are met in a way which does not prejudice future generations , now I do not believe that a properly conceived and located new settlement is any less sustainable in the long term that other forms of urban growth , and by properly conceived I 've got to say I believe that to mean properly balanced er form of development for the new settlement , and I think I would say that new settlements have usually been proposed because continued infilling , like the the normal forms of accommodating further development requirements , infill , and peripheral development , have been determined in York context not to be sustainable , the sorts of issues which arise as a result erm of additional development in or on the edge of York and the surrounding villages , problems of additional congestion , loss of green space in towns , loss of employment opportunities and so on . |
| 17 | All of which suggests that they could have as many as five players in the L.G.U. squad shortly to be nominated for next year 's Curtis Cup . |
| 18 | A provision in the IBA code not to be found in the CCBE version draws attention to the need , when in the client 's interest , to endeavour to reach a solution to disputes by out of court settlement rather than by starting proceedings and adds : " lawyers should never stir up litigation " . |
| 19 | ‘ High and Low ’ , MOMA 's ambitious attempt to fathom the relationship between high and low culture in modern art , was a costly AT&T-funded project that travelled from New York to Chicago and Los Angeles only to be savaged by most critics at each of its stops . |
| 20 | The initial application was for : ( i ) Madame Bihi to be joined as a party to the proceedings as a representative of the Democratic Republic of Somalia ; ( ii ) paragraph 3 of the order of Saville J. not to be brought into effect , ( iii ) the court to direct letters to be written to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office asking what state in Somalia was recognised by Her Majesty 's Government as a foreign sovereign state and with what entity , if any , therein Her Majesty 's Government had any dealings of a governmental nature ; and ( iv ) the court to request the Attorney-General to appoint an amicus curiae . |
| 21 | They drove in silence for a while , with Rachel content just to be beside him , happy in the knowledge that all their difficulties had somehow been resolved . |
| 22 | THE first Hollywood Oscar ever to be auctioned was sold yesterday for £32,000 . |
| 23 | He told the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher not to be late as she would miss it . |