Example sentences of "to be [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Defoe proclaimed that ‘ to be Masters of the Marine Power is to be Masters of all the Power and all the Commerce in Europe ’ . |
| 2 | The MDP leader M. Ensayhan , however , insisted that the opposition forces must now unite and " never allow our representatives to be hostages to the old system " . |
| 3 | An early oval fort of pre-Roman times with a later broch in one corner , perhaps added by the Votadini even though they were supposed to be collaborators with the Roman occupiers . |
| 4 | Both the Citadel and VMI consider themselves to be repositories of the southern chivalry and military prowess tested so harshly during the Civil War . |
| 5 | Vascular plants of the high Arctic seem by contrast to be remnants of the Tertiary flora that have survived in refugia throughout all the glaciations and recently dispersed southward , though seldom beyond the low Arctic zone . |
| 6 | Female and male hierarchies none the less differ in important ways that seem to be consequences of the contrasting strategies by which the two sexes seek to maximize their inclusive fitness . |
| 7 | There are always likely to be complaints about the precise distribution of conduct within the ladder of offences , but by permitting a maximum penalty as high as ten years for the lowest category , the relegation of conduct to it becomes less significant . |
| 8 | Poets do not necessarily have to be commentators on the historic present ; there is a world within as well as a world without . |
| 9 | On Dec. 10 the independent station Radio Galaxy was reported to have been ransacked and its director Félix Lamy kidnapped by heavily armed individuals claiming to be members of the armed forces . |
| 10 | For example , will you instigate an investigation and action to change the Short money as a result of the hon. Members for Liverpool , Broadgreen ( Mr. Fields ) and for Coventry , South-East ( Mr. Nellist ) ceasing to be members of the Labour party ? |
| 11 | He and Tasker were chosen by Bonington to be members of the 1982 British Everest Expedition , and shortly before he left Leysin he wrote for the Parents ' Association Newsletter an account of his schooldays , affectionately remembered : |
| 12 | After 1948 all workers had to be members of the national scheme and pay a fixed ‘ contribution ’ . |
| 13 | They , they are entitled , if they elect to do so , to continue to be members of the local government 's evaluation schemes , so they are eligible and have applied for membership on it . |
| 14 | John Strafford of Beaconsfield was given a standing ovation after declaring that the people of Northern Ireland had ‘ more than earned the right to be members of the Conservative Party ’ . |
| 15 | British companies , which are now considered to be leaders in the value-added sector , come to the show to expose their products and learn about this dynamic market . |
| 16 | ‘ If they want to be players on the international scene , their standards will have to match up . |
| 17 | These are thought to be models of the original coaches used on the BCR which were later sold to the Golden Valley Railway . |
| 18 | Even the apparent differences turn out to be manifestations of the same latent wish for the protection and love of the parent . |
| 19 | There are going to be implications for the private sector and for the statutory authorities and for SAD . |
| 20 | Tyrone on Aug. 5 and in Lisburn on Aug. 24 , were also believed to be victims of the sectarian violence . |
| 21 | All were thought to be victims of the fierce military repression which took place in the first three months following the military coup of September 1973 . |
| 22 | Harris ( 1984 ) shows that even two varieties which are held by their own speech communities to be related dialects may actually have very different underlying grammatical systems : " deep-seated structural divergences [ may ] exist between varieties which are intuitively felt to be dialects of the same language " ( Harris 1984 : 304 ) . |
| 23 | The ‘ Angel of Annunciation ’ and ‘ Virgin Annunciate ’ ( fig.6 ) , which in 1926 were owned by Philip Lehman in New York , appear to be segments of the same panel of a broken-up predella . |
| 24 | There were countless animals listed in the volume which Maybellome claimed to be invaders from the other world . |
| 25 | As individuals are we willing to answer Jesus 's call to be disciples , to be bearers of the Good News or do we cling to our security and proclaim our poverty of spirit ? |
| 26 | All of that would have been well known to the Ephesians , who had been converted from false gods who had no glory , to be followers of the one true God whose glory had been demonstrated in the splendour , the brightness and the beauty of the Saviour . |
| 27 | Thus El Salvador , Costa Rica and Honduras , whilst third parties to the contentious proceedings before the International Court , were asserted by the United States to be parties to the wider dispute . |
| 28 | All these correlations of course come from mean values for stimuli aggregated across subjects and are thus likely to be overestimates of the true size of any effect in individual subjects ( Guilford & Fruchter 1973 , Dunlap , Jones & Bittner 1983 ) . |
| 29 | The new VAX 10000 systems , claimed to be alternatives to the conventional mainframe , have one to four CPUs , optimised input-output and battery back-up . |
| 30 | Although it is not particularly surprising that and patterns in an idiosyncratic fashion , Neu 's comments reflect a rather general failure of items to behave reliably in a comparable way even when they appear to be tokens of the same phonological set . |