Example sentences of "to [be] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recounting the history of Bilmarsh farm , Gough observed : ‘ Nathaniell Reve had a desire to been tenant of this farme , because his grandfather and father had been tenants to it before ’ . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ The cars referred to are part of that package . |
| 3 | " Goodness me , do n't start taking that as a compliment , she cares about everyone 's feelings , she 's an archetypal victim , she 's an absolute fool about other people 's feelings , and let me warn you , I may as well warn you , the more she dislikes somebody , the more somebody annoys her , the more careful she is not to hurt their feelings , in fact the only people she is ever rude to are people like me and Gabriel and Papa , I mean people she cares for enough not to worry about being fair to . |
| 4 | If we think of natural and explicit answers to the question of what caused something , what we come to are items like the weight of a thing , or its colour , hardness , shape , nearness , transparency , weakness , speed , pitch , temperature , chemical constitution , positive charge , protein content , molecular structure , or spin . |
| 5 | It 's very rare for any software to be releases in only one version . |
| 6 | For this reason , among others , we must reject A. W. Schlegel 's interpretation of the chorus as the " ideal spectator " there being originally no spectacle for it to be spectator of . |
| 7 | He found 38.8 per cent of all inhabitants over 65 to be recipients of poor relief . |
| 8 | ‘ Privatisation of electricity and water also puts a hole straight through the Government 's claim to be guardians of the environment . |
| 9 | They were instead to be guardians of the interests of the commoners and of local interests generally , but they were to have no greater powers than any other members of the Committee . |
| 10 | There would need to be rebates for low-income families and for long-stay patients but the idea was that the working population would be required by law to obtain health insurance . |
| 11 | In the public sector there has to be accountability to the public or the client . |
| 12 | It depends on what warranties are to be subject in the limitation . |
| 13 | Just supposed to be word for word but it 's a bit of a erm Right , filling in booklet 's a er a bit of a pain . |
| 14 | Have you just got to sort of like the , these open to interpretation , or has it got to be word for word ? |
| 15 | Her administrations were headed first by the " duumvirs " , Godolphin and Marlborough , and from 1710 by Robert Harley ( soon to be Earl of Oxford ) , none of whom were conventional party men ( although Harley , a former Whig , can essentially be regarded as a Tory by Anne 's reign ) , and her governments often contained men from both sides of the party divide . |
| 16 | This theory has it that , as a breed , doctors like to be masters of every possible situation , and that this may even be a factor in their selection of medicine as a career . |
| 17 | It would be based on a variety of forms of public ownership which would enable people to be masters of their own lives and to give full play to their energy and abilities . |
| 18 | Defoe proclaimed that ‘ to be Masters of the Marine Power is to be Masters of all the Power and all the Commerce in Europe ’ . |
| 19 | Defoe proclaimed that ‘ to be Masters of the Marine Power is to be Masters of all the Power and all the Commerce in Europe ’ . |
| 20 | These agents are unfortunately fairly easy to come by and the Iraqis have already proven themselves to be masters of er subversive acquisition , er given that they are also now fired with a certain amount of fundamentalism , and should they find their backs to the wall , that even be accelerated . |
| 21 | He had little formal education , but his Christian conviction ideally qualified him to be apprentice to the Reverend Arthur Hird , who worked on Hodder 's religious publishing . |
| 22 | These high-yield debt securities are considered to be instruments of the devil . |
| 23 | Amnesty International considers them to be prisoners of conscience . |
| 24 | Amnesty International considers all of them to be prisoners of conscience and has repeatedly called on successive Greek Governments to release them and introduce alternative civilian service of non-punitive length . |
| 25 | The MDP leader M. Ensayhan , however , insisted that the opposition forces must now unite and " never allow our representatives to be hostages to the old system " . |
| 26 | These substances are all known to be mediators of inflammation and are at least partly responsible for the macroscopically obvious inflammation of the intestine on days 6–9 . |
| 27 | The readings and music were designed to help people reflect on the goodness of God 's creation and our responsibility to be stewards of the harvest . |
| 28 | An early oval fort of pre-Roman times with a later broch in one corner , perhaps added by the Votadini even though they were supposed to be collaborators with the Roman occupiers . |
| 29 | There seems at this point to be disagreement among the regulationists , with some hypothesizing that the decentralization within Britain was the beginning of a new phase of ( neo-Fordist ) accumulation ( Aglietta , 1979 ; Dunford , Geddes and Perrons , 1981 ) , while others ( Martin , 1988 ; Marshall , 1987 ) clearly see it as an attempt to use geographical restructuring to prolong the life of Fordism . |
| 30 | During conventional culture there are likely to be fluctuations in temperature necessitated by frequent removal from the incubator for observation . |