Example sentences of "to be [vb pp] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | He was to be joined the next day by his mistress , Felicity . |
2 | THE ACTRESS Helen Hayes , who came to be called the first lady of the American stage in a career that spanned eight decades , died on Wednesday at the age of 92 . |
3 | According to this law , if a response made in the presence of a particular stimulus is followed by a reward , that same response is more likely to be made the next time the stimulus is encountered . |
4 | Saturday 's abandoned match at Morley will probably have to be played the next week , followed by the trip to Liverpool St Helens on the final Saturday of the season . |
5 | He was already a canon of Notre-Dame-de-Paris , and was to be given the first vacant prebend at Bordeaux or Bourges by papal provision . |
6 | According to the report five officers had planned to use two military helicopters to bomb the headquarters during a joint meeting of government ministers and the Revolutionary Command Council ( RCC ) to discuss the austerity measures to be announced the next day . |
7 | Then he had to remember that even after the rounds had been allocated and the stetches accounted for , he still had to include the acre or so of headland , the land on the outside of the field where the ploughs turned , which had to be ploughed the last of all . ’ |
8 | She was sitting up in bed learning the chant which was to be tested the next day . |
9 | She had fully expected to be dismissed the next morning , but nothing was said and she did n't ask . |
10 | AUSTRALIAN David Richards is expected to be named the first full-time chief executive of the International Cricket Council in February . |
11 | News of these defeats was received by telegram at Saint Cloud on the night of 4 — 5 August , to be followed the next day by news of two further defeats at the battles of Reichshoffen and Forbach . |
12 | On day three all the butterflies were dead as was one angel , to be followed the next day by the other . |
13 | The nets are released at dusk , and drift with the ocean 's currents and winds , fishing the rich top 15 metres ( 50 feet ) of the sea , to be retrieved the next day . |
14 | The actual wedding was to be held the next day , and then Changez and Jamila would stay at the Ritz for a couple of nights . |
15 | Leroy Burns was rebuking a demonstrator , who had arrived to take part in a rally to be held the next day against racism and the National Young Conservatives . |
16 | It is hoped to attract 500 people to each of the two performances and to follow up the event with an ‘ Open Day ’ to be held the next week at which the public will be encouraged to try Medau for themselves . |
17 | There was one who was sitting beside Gustav Eismark , many years ago , just when he was about to be married the second time . |
18 | She was a very nice girl named Eugena , I think , and there were guards at the end of the hotel corridors , I remember giving them the slip and wandering around Khabarovsk on my own in a snowstorm , only to be told the next day that there was quite a bit of excitement in the city during the night because a Siberian tiger had come into the city and was wandering the streets at the same time I was ! |
19 | It has a claim to be considered the first court school of the Middle Ages . |
20 | What 's the Matter Plasma Plasma 's properties are sufficiently different from those of gases , liquids and solids for it to be considered the fourth state of matter . |
21 | R. M. Harmer , author of the Corporation section of the first edition of this book , placed himself in such a position as to be issued the last ticket ( for a 6 pence fare ) . |
22 | You 'd do we by the time you get in nine o'clock you 're supposed to be re half past nine you 're supposed to be finished the first one . |