Example sentences of "which be [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only from roughly the middle of the tenth/sixteenth century-perhaps coincidentally with the building of two other medreses which were to form part of the altmisli class , namely that attached to the mosque built by Suleyman for his son , Sehzade Mehmed ( the Sehzade medrese , completed in 954/1547 ) , and that built by the same sultan for his father , Selim I , apparently around 955/1548 — can one discern in the biographical sources the existence of a class of medreses , comprising these and others , one rank higher than the Sahn and normally carrying a salary of 60 akce , teaching in one of which seems to have been a generally recognized prerequisite for the holding of the highest learned offices . |
| 2 | Our first aim too is to serve the district according to the needs of our time , the first of which is to preserve knowledge of the life of the area . |
| 3 | They also achieve another prime objective of Conservative Governments , which is to transfer power from the state to the people . |
| 4 | This system no longer had quite such a regional character as it had had in the 1890s because local banks were already becoming part of the national system of clearing banks which was to take shape during the First World War . |
| 5 | The theme of the walk — which was to take place through the streets of St James 's — was ‘ royal London ’ . |
| 6 | During March there were violent protests in a number of areas throughout England over the introduction of the community charge or poll tax , which was to take effect from the beginning of the following month in both England and Wales under the terms of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 [ see p. 36501 ] . |
| 7 | The fair performance of the German currency appeared to discount the difficulties which many traders envisaged in the wake of German unification and , more specifically , of the controversial decision to unite the East and West German marks at par value , a move which was to weaken confidence in the mark in early 1991 . |
| 8 | He had no interest in the architecture of what was then merely a rather dull manor house , but kept on improving the estate , which was to give pleasure to the Welch family until the Second World War . |
| 9 | Thousands of young people were drafted into the ‘ Army of Knowledge ’ which was to bring literacy into the countryside . |
| 10 | A by-product of cheesemaking on farms led to another product which was to bring fame to the name of Ayrshire . |
| 11 | The rise of State intervention in the social sphere prior to 1914 has been acknowledged as marking the beginnings of the process of greater involvement which was to find expression in the Second World War . |
| 12 | For Ryecroft , like so many others who had worried about culture and the masses , had learnt ‘ the true instinct of townsfolk ’ which was to find pleasure in the ‘ triumph of artificial circumstance over natural conditions ’ . |
| 13 | First , did the Council stick to its main constitutional job , which was to prepare business for the assembly ( Ath . |