Example sentences of "of a [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a number of different levels at which the information content of a vibrational spectrum can be analyzed to allow identification of a sample to be made , or to allow conclusions to be drawn about its structure . |
| 2 | Calibration of the instrument will allow the heat capacity of a sample to be calculated in a quantitative manner . |
| 3 | Mathematicians have chosen the anticlockwise rotation of a vector to be positive . |
| 4 | At a meeting with seven US senators in Moscow on April 13 , President Gorbachev " stressed his determination " to make enough progress on the START negotiations to allow the main provisions of a treaty to be initialled at the Washington summit , according to the leader of the delegation , Senator George Mitchell . |
| 5 | The reluctance of a secretary to be parted from her boss was a flattering affirmation of personal dedication . |
| 6 | This law enables the volume of a gas to be calculated at a specific temperature and pressure so long as the volume of the gas is known at another temperature and pressure . |
| 7 | He had a fraction of a second to be surprised at finding himself in the middle of all this traffic , when up there , that was his road , up there , that 's where he should have been by now . |
| 8 | For horses of a type to be a suitable hunter . |
| 9 | call ‘ behavioural routines ’ : the raising of a voice to be heard , for example , or spontaneous reaction to danger . |
| 10 | We leave that to the specialists , and indeed I think that the reason why we 're particularly concerned with disasters which happen in the poorer parts of the world , the developing countries , is because they seem to have less of a voice to be able to complain about what is done to them . |
| 11 | The trustees administering the appeal fund set up for victims of the bombings have now approved the design of a memorial to be placed in Bridge Street at the scene of the atrocity . |
| 12 | Some would take up for ever more space than they were entitled to — like my mother 's wedding dress , shrouded in sheet linen , suspended in time , uncrushed by the other more workaday but less significant garments that crowded together as though they were cold , waiting in a queue , inmates of a zenana to be taken up or not at the Pasha 's pleasure , promiscuously gathered , at the mercy of their owner . |
| 13 | He was once asked what he considered the function of a chairman to be and he gave a three-part answer : |
| 14 | There are , after all , other restrictions and dangers , such as steep hills , which do not require the whole length of a road to be daubed in paint . |
| 15 | Yet others , like the pumpkin , were made of a size to be shared amongst the whole neighbourhood , and many of these larger fruits were marked on their outer rind with vertical divisions , so as to make apportionment the easier . |
| 16 | I figured that I did n't have much of a chance to be the best player in the US , the country being so big . |
| 17 | Developed by the Dutch physicist J.R.J. van Asperen de Boer , it employs a camera equipped with an infra-red vidicon that allows an image of a small section of a panel to be transmitted to a television screen . |
| 18 | Memory of a basket to be filled with blackberries . |
| 19 | Thorfinn lifted himself in the saddle and saw men 's heads turn , and the flash of a spear to be deflected . |
| 20 | There is no explicit mention of a child to be born to him and Sarah , and there will be none for another three chapters ( not until 15.4 ) . |
| 21 | This is act seventeen , nineteen sixty three which basically requires that parents , one or both , of a child to be baptised be or be prepared to become full communicant members of the church . |
| 22 | We settled on a classic rock climb from the Etançons valley — the West-South-West Ridge of the Pic Nord des Cavales : a mouthful of a name to be sure and not a route well known outside the area , but Collomb assures of its worth : |
| 23 | Besides a second table , a carpet , and an armchair , there was only an old , locked cassone , of a kind to be found in every cottage on the island . |
| 24 | It involved the acceptance of a vocation to be undertaken not for money but from a sense of duty . |
| 25 | The diagram shows the limiting size of a cube to be viewed through a 60° cone . |
| 26 | All this exciting news is soon forgotten by the announcement of a dance to be held in the local town hall in honour of the Commandos . |
| 27 | Here Serpell 's computer was programmed to assume ‘ the loss of freight revenue from the deletion of a link to be limited to the revenue directly attributed to the link . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Christian Communication and Social Movements ’ will be the main theme of a seminar to be held in conjunction with the next assembly of WACC 's Latin American and Caribbean regional association ( WACC-LA/C ) . |
| 29 | God he 's so manlike , he 's too much of a man to be , oh God why am I crying ? |
| 30 | No one expects this rump of a service to be viable . |