Example sentences of "of [adj] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the newcomers consider the absence of street-lighting to be dangerous , particularly in the winter , the locals , who claim they have always been able to manage without it , regard it as an ugly and unnecessary intrusion . |
| 2 | Strongly stereotypical Creole features should be salient and positively valued as a symbol of identity , so we would expect these particular features of Creole to be accommodated to by everyone who attempts to engage in " chattin' Patois " . |
| 3 | If an indicator of social deprivation is additional to mortality , then how are the effects of each to be identified and understood ? |
| 4 | The sentence was held by the High Court of Justiciary to be competent : Graham v. Robert Younger Ltd. , 1955 J.C . |
| 5 | A great deal of the blame must be laid at the feet of those who link regression with occult activities or treat it as some sort of parlour-trick to be practised for fun at parties . |
| 6 | As the Earl of Leicester is now dead , in whose keeping the King was by reason of the disturbance in the realm , and now by the favour of God the King is snatched out of his hands and raised again to his former estate , whereby with the common consent of the realm the King has caused all things attempted by the Earl for the diminution of the King 's right , honour and royal dignity to be revoked ; and whereas the forests north of Trent , which before the war in the time of the Earl were preserved whole and uninjured , have been disafforested and destroyed to the King 's disherison , the King commands the said Roger to re-afforest all the forests in his bailiwick as they were … before the war ; and if any part thereof ought of right to be disafforested , the King is prepared to do full justice . |
| 7 | He is entitled as of right to be present at all meetings of the council , its committees and subcommittees . |
| 8 | His Highnesse the Prince of Orange ( whom it hath pleased Almighty God to make the glorious Instrument of delivering this Kingdom from Popery and Arbitrary Power ) Did ( by the advice of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and divers principall persons of the Commons ) Cause Letters to be written to the Lords Spirituall and Temporall being Protestants and other Letters to the several Count yes Citties Universities Burroughs and Cinqe Ports for the chuseing of such persons to represent them as were of right to be sent to Parliament to meet and sitt at Westminster upon the two and twentieth day of January in this Year 1688 in order to such an establishment as that their Religion Lawes and Libertyes might not againe be in danger of being subverted . |
| 9 | There was something of that to be sure , but his tours were soon extended to include speeches to more discriminating audiences . |
| 10 | Where a court order is made , it is not sufficient for a copy of that to be placed with the title deeds with nothing further being done , for the court order can be misplaced or removed . |
| 11 | Erm and I had that , but I 've used the last of that to be honest . |
| 12 | The publisher , traditionally , needs to sell at least a thousand copies of that to be worth even advertising it , but this means that you can print an extra copy whenever you want and this then implies perhaps and even larger and larger growth and more and more specialised information , which only computers can manage , and one hesitates to work out where the end of all this is . |
| 13 | The publisher , traditionally , needs to sell at least a thousand copies of that to be worth even advertising it , but this means that you can print an extra copy whenever you want and this then implies and even larger and larger growth in more and more specialised information which only computers can manage , and one hesitates to work out where the end of all this is . |
| 14 | The idea was that light waves traveled at a speed of 186,000 miles a second through the ether , which meant that an observer who was at rest relative to the ether would measure the speed of light to be about 186,000 miles a second , but an observer who was moving through the ether would measure a higher or lower speed . |
| 15 | They seem , in practice , to treat Cabinet government as a chunk of modelling-clay to be pummelled and fashioned by the prime minister of the hour . |
| 16 | But Mr Gorbachev may judge the risks of non-reform to be even higher . |
| 17 | My understanding is that he will try to find half-a-dozen wood processing / wood craft companies whose adverts would feature within the eight pages of editorial to be supplied by COED CYMRU . |
| 18 | Do we allow people from the age of 12 to be induced into a habit which is addictive and will undermine , and in many cases destroy , their lives ? |
| 19 | The Belgian state phone company Belgacom and P&T Luxembourg have cosily been awarded the contract to install the European Parliament 's internal telecommunications network , which requires that they supply , set up and operate the private network , integrating all services used by the deputies and the administration : the network links Brussels , Luxembourg and Strasbourg and will be installed during the summer of 1993 to be ready for the first autumn session . |
| 20 | For the moment the writers of the Report consider their educational programme of cultural diffusion by means of English to be " in no way impossible or visionary " : |
| 21 | The mathematics includes equations relating variables and allowing the values of some to be deduced , given the values of others . |
| 22 | It is extraordinary that it took so long for the importance of this to be realised in Britain . |
| 23 | With a number of stocks going ex-dividend , market-makers estimated the combined effect of this to be a 6½ point knock to the Footsie . |
| 24 | Fifty five per cent of this will be spent outside Germany , with three quarters of this to be spent in Antwerp where BASF is building a steam cracker . |
| 25 | And all of this to be washed down with a late bar . |
| 26 | Yes , well in well I 've got some photos of this to be inside somewhere . |
| 27 | Labour makes promises : a new council house building programme , more money for community care , more money for roads and pavements , more for teachers , better schools , extra equipment , new capital expenditure , leisure centres and sports facilities — and all of this to be funded without a general increase in taxation . |
| 28 | Foreign exchange earnings were planned to total $90,000 million , with $83,000 million of this to be accounted for by earnings from oil and gas exports . |
| 29 | It would have capital resources of 10,000 million ECU ( some US$12,400 million ) , 30 per cent of this to be paid up in members ' subscriptions and the rest being callable capital . |
| 30 | The population of this delightful little town was estimated in the official census of 1894 to be 19,722 , most of them Martiniquians — a hybrid mixture of creole , mulatto , negro and coolie — with a few French government officials and civil servants . |