Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pos pn] [noun pl] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had not been brutal enough to mention the office rumour and Ayling had not expected his words to be interpreted that way . |
| 2 | You 've expected your shirts to be perfect , your home dean , your food prepared , your guests fawned over , a woman to keep your bed warm . |
| 3 | And even when I learned you were a prying journalist — and when I 've always preferred my walks to be solitary — what do I find but that I 'm asking if you would like to walk with me ! ’ |
| 4 | Tonight Tesco insisted its own survey 's had shown its prices to be constitently cheaper than on the continent . |
| 5 | Monasteries , hopeful of future gain , could frequently have preferred their entrants to be from wealthy families . |
| 6 | Having found her ideas to be a success , Alison is now ready to share the designs with other knitters . |
| 7 | Then she had brought her essays to be approved , now it was herself and her pannier of delicacies . |
| 8 | It was widely assumed that the assailants had mistakenly believed their victims to be of Korean extraction , and that the assault was connected to a black boycott of two Korean-American grocery shops in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn . |
| 9 | It makes you think but at the end of the day you 've trained your horses to be here and do it well . |
| 10 | In 1914 , a member wrote in the suggestion book that the Professional 's shop be left open until after the 6.25 train to Paddington has left , and added that two visitors who had played and left their clubs to be cleaned by the caddies found the Professional 's shop closed when they went to collect them . |
| 11 | Bush also announced that he was ordering the immediate lifting of the alert status of all strategic bombers and had directed their weapons to be put in storage . |
| 12 | Instead of starting our own clubs and groups , I have encouraged our members to be as salt in many of the different activities of the centre . |
| 13 | After him came more chiefs and then banners and icons of the two principal churches which had sent their Arks to be present at the battle . |
| 14 | After his ordeal , Mr Daszczuk criticised a neighbour who had ignored his pleas to be let in when the dogs were chasing him . |
| 15 | OLDHAM boss Joe Royle has warned his players to be ready for a revenge raid when Leeds United cross the Pennines tonight . |
| 16 | Cranston had already ordered their horses to be brought out into Cheapside . |