Example sentences of "[be] [prep] be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're to be married in two weeks ’ time , ’ Alyssia informed her , settling into one of the chairs with Piers 's arm protectively resting behind her shoulders . |
| 2 | Do I take it that I 'm to be redeemed from that particular fate ? |
| 3 | And if you think I 'm to be taken in that easy , Miss Jennifer , then think again ! " and muttering to himself that it was as great a pity to see women weep as geese go barefoot , he took Ann by the arm and went back into his house . |
| 4 | My understanding is that A those do n't exist at present within the deposit plan , but if they did at some future date , for any reason , that their function would be to be used after two thousand and six to sustain the permanence of the greenbelt . |
| 5 | Alain did not know what a shock it had been to be dragged up those stairs and to find a room like a small time capsule , the very essence of the man she had not known still lingering there . |
| 6 | In fact , pursuant to r 6.80 , no resolutions can be taken at the meeting of creditors other than : ( i ) a resolution to appoint a named insolvency practitioner to be trustee or two or more insolvency practitioners as joint trustees ; ( ii ) a resolution to establish a creditors ' committee ; ( iii ) ( unless a creditors ' committee has been established ) a resolution specifying the terms of the trustee 's remuneration or to defer consideration of that matter ; ( iv ) if two or more trustees are appointed , a resolution specifying whether acts are to be done by both or all of them , or by only one ; ( v ) a resolution adjourning the meeting for not more than three weeks ; and ( vi ) any other resolutions which the chairman thinks it right to allow for special reasons . |
| 7 | In this view , teaching materials are to be seen as hypothetical constructs , models or exemplars of abstract principles from which actual instances of pedagogic activities might be developed in the light of particular classroom conditions . |
| 8 | Towers are to be seen as single scouts or in pairs in Perugia and Bologna ; but these are isolated survivors ; many an Italian city was once adorned with innumerable towers . |
| 9 | One reviewer of the Salon des Indépendants of 1912 writes : ‘ Now that the Cubists have grown into a school their works occupy several rooms and are to be seen in several exhibitions ’ , and another : ‘ the Cubists are to be found in force ’ . |
| 10 | The cartoons are to be seen among many others , similarly waggish and satirical , at Jack Duncan Books in Fossgate , York . |
| 11 | It seems common sense to place the taller varieties at the back of the beds , or in the middle if they are to be seen from all angles , but other points can also be taken into account . |
| 12 | It by no means follows , however , that intellectual property rights exercisable only in one country are to be equiparated to immovable property in that country . |
| 13 | TRAINS are to be fitted with airline-style ‘ black boxes ’ following the Cannon Street station crash . |
| 14 | Special vehicles being used by the Cleveland Ambulance Service are to be fitted with tiny safety seats for mothers with young babies . |
| 15 | The Moscow authorities have announced that checks are to be conducted on private and commercial vehicles for excessive exhaust emissions . |
| 16 | Continuous running is only of benefit where a large number of modules are to be transferred to offline storage or where much hard copy has already been done , and many module versions can be nominated or deleted . |
| 17 | It will later this week reiterate its opposition to the break-up of the two-tier structure of regions and districts which are to be replaced with single-tier councils . |
| 18 | And many specialist machines are to be replaced by new equipment making full use of the latest technology . |
| 19 | It is likely that , in recent years , a majority of such orders have been sought by the preserved railways under the very procedures that are to be replaced by those laid down in the Bill . |
| 20 | These tutors are to be empowered with greater responsibility than previously when new membership standards are instituted . |
| 21 | If comparisons of prevalence are to be made with other populations or other times , there must obviously be reasonable similarity in the research methods used . |
| 22 | At Cirencester a panel containing a sixteen-petalled rosette has a comparable central device , however , the strongest comparisons are to be made with both of the Leicester mosaics , where eight-petalled rosettes similar to those in the Gloucester pavement are placed at the centre of a kaleidoscopic geometric design ( pI . |
| 23 | Nonetheless certain advances can be made at the national level , and given that politics and governmental power are still largely national in scope certain advances must be made at that level if they are to be made at all . |
| 24 | It is essential that the partners establish the basic principles on which payments are to be made to outgoing partners or their estates . |
| 25 | Some means of checking companies ' compliance with the code is seen as essential if real improvements are to be made across all listed companies rather than in those which are already well run . |
| 26 | Such applications are to be made in such form as the board may prescribe , by the applicant or his agent , and lodged with the clerk to the licensing hoard at least five weeks before the first day of the meeting at which the application falls to be considered ( subs . |
| 27 | These are especially useful when deep cuts are to be made in several shallower stages . |
| 28 | On December 13 concert goers at the Barbican are to be served with complimentary glasses of the traditional Swedish drink Glogg . |
| 29 | The powers of the directors are to be employed to that end . |
| 30 | ‘ I will take you back to the cage … and in the morning I will give the order that you are to be called by any name you want . ’ |