Example sentences of "[noun] to be [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not a National Delegate , but IAOPA , who have some hundreds of thousands of members , is entitled to send a consultant to the meetings , and I have the honour to be that representative . |
| 2 | You can consider exercise to be any movement you make . |
| 3 | The sun was growing very hot , and the pool was the only place to be that day . |
| 4 | Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire is the place to be this weekend to see the world 's best three day eventers in the Audi International Horse Trials . |
| 5 | If you 're a beer drinker , there 's only one place to be this weekend . |
| 6 | The Ulster Folk Museum at Cultra is the place to be this weekend — or any time this month — if you 're in love , happily married or about to be so . |
| 7 | With two more days of sunshine forecast , there wo n't be a better place to be this week than at New Road . |
| 8 | The size of all newsletters depends on the amount of advertising revenue so if you 'd like future newsletters to be this size perhaps you could help by supporting our advertisers . |
| 9 | In 1734 , for example , Gabriel Napier of Craigannet , the sheriff-depute of Stirlingshire , pressed Lord Ilay to help him add the office of keeper of the register of sasines for Stirling and the stewartry of Menteith to his official holdings , for he found the sheriffship to be more trouble than it was worth . |
| 10 | Check train times before paying up too — last connection from Leeds back down to Oxford leaves too soon after the end of a game to be any use ; it may be the same from Oxford back to Leeds too . |
| 11 | I express to you the most earnest desire of my heart to be that prosperity and success in social and moral improvement may attend increasingly from year to year the progress of this library . |
| 12 | You can change this field to be any directory to which you have access and which has sufficient quota to accommodate the modules subsequently marked for transfer . |
| 13 | One explained , ‘ It 's his choice to be that way . |
| 14 | His grasp of foreign languages was causing Paul to consider asking him to translate some of his work , and knowing Nathan to be more help in that matter than she , Dinah , would ever be , she left the pair of them to their task , and herself enjoyed the jaunts in the carriage sent by the devoted amateurs of the locality . |
| 15 | He expects the jump from county to Test cricket to be another step up in terms of bowling and concentration . |
| 16 | I did some shows with Ritchie Blackmore and Ritchie himself was really nice to me , but some of his team were real jerks , and we really did n't give them any reason to be that way . |
| 17 | Just as we define science to be any activity directed towards understanding any phenomenon or process in nature , we take a similarly broad-brush approach to the definition of engineering . |
| 18 | A whole range of contributory factors are singled out , and evidence offered , notably on age stratification leading children to be more peer than adult-orientated , and television viewing increasingly dominating their waking lives . |
| 19 | What was even more alarming was that the American president believed North to be some sort of hero . |
| 20 | Perhaps you have got to do this stuff for a whole lifetime to be any good at it . |
| 21 | Antrobus considered archaeologists to be another kind of meddling vandal , and he had refused to let in a group from the British Association for the Advancement of Science that had included Lubbock and Pitt-Rivers , and who had wanted to excavate round the stones . |
| 22 | The may maybe I just comment on that that last that last point , which as I understand it it the the justification for a new settlement is brought about solely by increasing the requirement for Greater York to twelve thousand seven hundred , going through those figures there seems to me , for instance , for both Ryedale and Selby to be more provision than could be met in a single settlement , I I think the the figures put forward by Barton Willmore are more than can be met in existing allocations and a single new settlement of a reasonable size . |