Example sentences of "to be [noun] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It included such as Wanda Staniszewska , Jackie Gallagher , Buddy Rozynski ( cousin of Louis Dudek ) and Aileen Collins ( later to be Mrs L. Dudek ) , Robert A. Currie , Yaffa Lerner , Anna Azzulo , Betty Sutherland ( later Mrs Sutherland Layton ) , and Dudek himself . |
| 2 | The next lessee , for just one year , was to be Captain Lovelace Gylby , another flamboyant character credited with temporarily losing the island in a card game . |
| 3 | One , John Anderson , Viscount Waverley , a wartime Chancellor and Lord President , was to be Lord Privy Seal and ‘ overlord ’ for supply and raw materials and of the Treasury and Board of Trade . |
| 4 | A Vietnamese family , naively befriended by an American , turn out to be Viet Cong sympathisers , and a South Vietnamese general has to be bribed to release artillery support . |
| 5 | To be duz et débonaire , as the Confessor allegedly was , represented not merely a literary convention but a normal part of diplomatic and courtly intercourse . |
| 6 | The chief of staff was believed to be Colonel Lee Hwal , who had been educated in Japan ; he was thought to be responsible for the organisation of the North Korean air force . |
| 7 | She wants to be Violet Elizabeth Bott ; the screeching , lithping , secretly smart brat who hung around with the nice-but-dim lads until she annoyed them into letting her join the band . |
| 8 | In the 2 1/2-year-old tapes , a man believed most likely to be bachelor James Gilbey is heard calling Di ‘ Squidgy ’ and ‘ Darling ’ as the Princess talks of her torment . |
| 9 | Publius was obviously meant to be Publius Scipio Africanus , who at that time was operating with his brother in the East . |
| 10 | Hours later a man believed to be East End boss Edward Clancy rang detectives accusing the Asian of taking his £38,000 Silver Shadow . |
| 11 | In the summer of 1924 , during my first year at Eton , Ras Tafari , later to be Emperor Haile Selassie but at that time Regent , paid a State Visit to England and invited my mother and me to call on him in London . |
| 12 | Chefs in any doubt as to the influence of the grand dames of the ovens should remember that the three- Michelin -star Georges Blanc in Vonnas used to be La Mère Blanc until the son took over from his maman . |
| 13 | The woman turned out to be Lady Claire Rendlesham , director of Yves Saint Laurent in London . |
| 14 | He did not know that ten years would have to run before on 2 July 1976 the National Assembly of the united Socialist Republic of Vietnam endorsed the unification of the nation , proclaiming Saigon to be Ho Chi Minh city . |
| 15 | The subject is believed to be Gian Giacomo Caprotti , a pupil of da Vinci who joined him at the age of 10 , later becoming one of his lovers . |
| 16 | He wants to be Northern Ireland secretary . |
| 17 | Some claimed to be Don Antonio Beatillo himself , reincarnate ; others , more crafty , urged the claims of babies discovered , they said , in the local limestone caves , foundlings dropped from the sky , with tokens proving their selfsame identity with the magnate , recently deceased , much lamented ( RIP ) who owned all that land down in the valley of the Dragon Torrent . |
| 18 | His successor in Darlington is to be Det Insp Tom Ryan . |
| 19 | The fifth member is to be Sir Peter Middleton , deputy chairman of Barclays . |
| 20 | This proved to be Sir Simon Fraser and Sir Robert Keith . |
| 21 | And the man behind the shock ‘ Do n't back Ulster Tories ’ was alleged to be Sir Patrick Mayhew . |
| 22 | The guest turns out to be Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly , " a very great doctor " , who in a role half-priestly and half-analytical reconciles Edward and Lavinia even though their marriage has already been described by him as that of |
| 23 | But when the first horsemen loomed close , they proved to be Sir Andrew Leslie and his lieutenants , leading the two thousand reserve force . |
| 24 | While Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska and Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa were expected to accrue some of the black support which would otherwise have gone to Wilder , the principal beneficiary of Wilder 's withdrawal seemed likely to be front-runner Bill Clinton , who had won considerable black support in his five campaigns for the governorship of Arkansas . |
| 25 | Jean Collin , generally considered to be President Abdou Diouf 's closest aide , on April 13 lost his posts as political secretary of the ruling Parti socialiste ( PS ) and as chair of the organizing committee for the forthcoming party congress in June 1990 . |
| 26 | At the last minute the convention 's keynote speaker for Sunday 26 April was taken ill , and her replacement turned out to be Mr John Frohnmayer , the dismissed chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts who , although not scheduled to leave his post officially until a few days later , had actually worked his last day the previous Friday . |
| 27 | The presenter at the Scottish Instructors Convention is to be Miss Iris Kellett , the well-known Irish show-jumping trainer . |
| 28 | He rose , began to pace the room , stared at the butler who entered , and said to Orrin , ‘ Beg pardon , sir , for interrupting , but the housekeeper says that a young woman , claiming to be Miss Sally-Anne Tunstall , has arrived at the servants ’ entrance , and what is she to do ? ’ |
| 29 | Shortly to be Miss Sherlock Holmes . |