Example sentences of "be [pron] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And who are we to pass judgment on the Saudis ? |
| 2 | The Mutawas , clothed in self-righteousness , were there to bear witness to the appropriate punishment . |
| 3 | But how were they to ensure survival in the game , and then at the highest level ? |
| 4 | In diplomacy with subject or foreign peoples , satraps were supposed to refer everything ( o the Great King ( Diod. xv.41.5 ) , but there is nothing to imply deference to the king in inscriptions like Mausolus ' treaty with the Pamphylian city of Phaselis , or his grant of political privileges to the Kretan city of Knossos ( H. Bengtson ( 1975 ) Die Staatsverträge des Altertums , edn 2 , vol. ii , 260 , J. Crampa ( 1972 ) Inscriptions of Labraunda 40 = Mausolus M 7 , 10 ) . |
| 5 | there is no doubt that this is not a publication to be left around the bedroom floor gathering foot prints and Coca-Cola stains , but then similar neither is it to lie moribund on the coffee table or in the display cabinet . |
| 6 | The purpose of the opening in the south wall of the choir behind the rector 's desk is open to conjecture : is it to give light at the desk , which otherwise would be in deep shadow , or is it a hagioscope ( peephole ) ? |
| 7 | Well , I move rapidly from these dispiriting erm thoughts erm to say something about the third and last point , the question of memory , because even could the artist recreate , in the way that I 've tried to suggest , through an awareness of time , and through a , a rejection of the intellect , even if he could recreate in this way reality present to him in time , how is he to make contact with the past ? |