Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] be a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 However , I imagined that the praise I received that night was merely to be a preview of the steaming sauna of appreciation that I 'd receive after the first night .
2 Still , in spite of the above , I just want to live long enough to be a problem to my children .
3 Nobody doubts that , in principle , Europe is large and sophisticated enough to be a powerhouse of new technology , but the achievement of that goal can only be impeded by the cost of supporting agriculture ( which consumes resources and engages people in traditional , not novel , tasks ) .
4 ‘ You must be looking forward to when you 're old enough to be a Brownie like your sister ! ’
5 That happens often enough to be a matter for public concern .
6 If the message you sent her was as cryptic as you said it was and she 's still managed to get here , she 's smart enough to be a danger to us . ’
7 Following the est the establishment of the public services section , I was lucky enough to be a delegate at the conference held in April .
8 The case came to hinge on the legitimacy of Mabel because of William 's first contracted marriage and so to be a matter for the church courts .
9 True to style , Mr Pozsgay claimed only to be a sympathiser of the movement and not its instigator .
10 Given the size of the motion-picture audience it was inevitable that political authorities would become involved in some regulation of the industry even if it was only to be a question of safety and fire regulations , but what made the movies even more into a public issue was that they became a mass activity precisely at the moment when political parties and social agencies were more concerned than ever before with how the masses could be accommodated within cities .
11 It does not seem any longer to be a system of dominance and subordination .
12 At least there was soon to be a bit of activity in the neighbourhood to distract the young lad 's attention : in June of 1797 Charles the Cheesemonger was to achieve the singular distinction of being mentioned , en passant , in an Act of Parliament .
13 The same was true in Normandy , where Henry II 's concession to Rouen between 1160 and 1170 , soon to be a model for other cities across the Angevin empire , permitted internal self-government by a mayor and town council , but also allowed the duke to choose the mayor from a list of three names submitted to him by the council , and protected the ducal right to military service .
14 He was content just to be a part of the pack , and Ollie was prepared to allow this , providing he did n't get too close to the family .
15 People travelled from remote lands just to be a part of it , for no one was ever turned from the door .
16 Beyond this , what might appear just to be a way of illustrating how motets were put together — singing the two or three different , often highly contrasted melodies individually before putting them together as a polyphonic , multi-texted whole — may equally well represent a valid reflection of the manner in which they were originally performed .
17 More recently , of course , Hytner has become the internationally acclaimed director of Miss Saigon , but he claims that he does n't want just to be a director of musicals , or only of anything else for that matter .
18 We do n't want to lose the scrum as part of our game or just to be a means of restarting play ’ , concluded Spotswood .
19 Since no scientist was prepared to sit down and do a comparable amount of research in order to demolish a theory which seemed so patently to be a load of rubbish , they all simply cried ‘ Rubbish ! ’ and stamped their feet .
20 But the reality of Jules 's living quarters turns out already to be a set of images , i.e. a disused garage , in which pop art rubs shoulders with wrecked 1950s autos on the model of those in Nicholas Ray 's Rebel Without a Cause .
21 Drawing was always to be a liberation for him .
22 Mandatory reselection was won in 1979 and a new method for electing the leader of the party was adopted in 1981 which gave trade unions and constituency parties a major say , but there has still to be a change in the way in which the party manifesto is drawn up .
23 Grubby was and is the most unlikely man ever to be a hit in the world of advertising .
24 So far as it is known , Noble has been the only born-deaf person ever to be a Freemason in Britain .
25 Petr Uhl , a dissident in prison facing charges of spreading false information , was said yesterday to be a victim of disinformation .
26 It was also to be a station for the motor-car age , situated on ample land with large car-parks .
27 There is also to be a continuation of earlier work on the experiences of black school leavers seeking work and vocational training .
28 There is also to be a document on structure and balance in the curriculum , in which ministers will draw together the different strands .
29 Three weeks later , Lord Rivers ( later to be a vice-president of the College ) was elected the Odiham Society 's president .
30 ‘ It ought clearly to be a responsibility of the government . ’
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