Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the novelist E. M. Forster was to put it in the Indian summer of the bourgeoisie : ‘ In came the dividends , up went the lofty thoughts . ’ |
| 2 | Yet many party supporters were outraged by this betrayal of the Whig tradition , and the very fact that the issue of liberty of conscience could now be given a low priority in the party agenda is perhaps indicative of the beginnings of the process whereby Whiggery was to divorce itself from the cause of Dissent . |
| 3 | But if England and Wales were to provide them with the right context come this Saturday , Mike Teague — who has been shortening in the betting and who was integral to the Lions ' strategy under the same coach , McGeechan , in Australia in 1989 — and either Emyr Lewis or Richard Webster could win the two blindside berths . |
| 4 | Another way of expressing the ‘ tension ’ that racked Paul VI is to consider him as the heir of Pius XII and John XXIII . |
| 5 | Or , if the Prince of Wales was to remove himself from the line of succession , that would be a grave matter . |