Example sentences of "to be [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The balance of the enquiries tended to be towards matters over which the department had control , but matters beyond their immediate control , such as the blackout mentioned above , often arose spontaneously and were generally given proper and serious consideration by the Senior Management Team . |
| 2 | Santa Monica , California-based Retix Inc warns that it expects net profit and turnover to be below analysts ' estimates for its first quarter ending April 3 : it expects operating results to be hurt by delays in releasing product enhancements for its RouterXchange 7000 series of routers to volume production , including support for IBM 's Token Ring network environment ; sales may be down up to 15% , and it may only break even or even worse . |
| 3 | Burlington , Massachusetts-based Bachman Information Systems Inc warns that it expects revenues for its third fiscal quarter to Aprch 31 to be below analysts ' expectations and that the operating loss for the quarter will also be greater than financial market expectations — it notes that some analysts had forecast revenues of about $10m . |
| 4 | It follows , in my opinion , that the servant may , whilst in the employment of the master , be as agreeable , attentive , and skilful as it is in his power to be to others with the ultimate view of obtaining the benefit of the customers ' friendly feelings when he calls upon them if and when he sets up business for himself . |
| 5 | It seems to me that there ought to be to edges to a campaign to make medicines safer . |
| 6 | Waldron refers to a justification of property along these lines as a right-based argument for private property , which he defines as ‘ an argument which takes an individual interest to be sufficiently important in itself to justify holding others ( especially the government ) to be under duties to create , secure , maintain , or respect an institution of private property ’ . |
| 7 | Another point illustrated by the trees is that arms races do not necessarily have to be between members of different species . |
| 8 | Nothing is simply or singly , to be is to be between ideas , beliefs , cultures , and discourses . |
| 9 | The fighting , eventually suppressed with the aid of Interior Ministry troops ( OMON ) , appeared to be between supporters and opponents of the new coalition government which President Rakhmon Nabiyev had been compelled to accept in May ( and which had been refused recognition by Kurgan-Tyube 's neighbouring Kulyab oblast and by Khodjent oblast in the north — see also p. 38916 ) . |
| 10 | The choice presented to viewers tends to be between genres and subgenres rather than within them . |
| 11 | No matter how realistic and cautious I tried to be about changes at home , in my heart I only wanted reassurance that things would be as before . |
| 12 | Persuading people to a particular point of view is the essential aim of every public relations campaign , no matter how it may appear to be about products , concepts , policies , personalities , issues , or information and data . |
| 13 | It appears to be about matters of accommodation and staffing . |
| 14 | On the positive side , the factual study indicated that , in general , the small claims procedure provided a suitable forum for use by the general public , although the comments on the procedure tended to be about details rather than an overall critique . |
| 15 | The argument may seem to be about tactics ; but it is also about leadership . |
| 16 | The head said he thought that on the whole it was a very fair report — he had not expected it to be without criticisms . |
| 17 | Oh yes indeed , indeed , well only last week I said do need some flowers , come on Thursday they 're fresh , I said I want them now Lionel , I hate to be without flowers in the room and he said well have two for the price of one , he would insist that I had two bunches for the price of one . |
| 18 | Following the meeting a US military excavation team carried out its first MIA search in Cambodia ; it announced on March 23 that it had recently unearthed some remains which were believed to be of members of US television crews killed in Cambodia in 1970 . |
| 19 | The pictures however did n't seem to be of artistes of any kind ; they were just of anonymous , handsome young men , the sort of photographs that Boy had seen in barber 's windows showing the kinds of haircut you could get . |
| 20 | For example , the equation through the verb to be of groups D and E associates the animate with the inanimate , the natural with the man-made . |
| 21 | Huge grants of land to the church became rarer ( but so did the chances of resuming what had once been granted ) ; from the middle of the century , gifts were more likely to be of consuetudines from ecclesiastical lands or of other tolls and dues . |
| 22 | The moving pictures on the wall seemed to be of events occurring elsewhere on the planet , or in the universe , across the ages . |
| 23 | It seemed to be of horsemen having a nice peaceful ride in the wood — picnickers , almost — until I discovered the animal , when it became perfectly clear that it had been a hunting scene all along . |
| 24 | The Daily Mirror and Sunday Pictorial were in interlocking ownership ; but the first Lord Rothermere , one of the founders ( in 1903 , when the Mirror was to be for women , edited by women — the women failed , and sacking them , the Harmsworths ' henchman said , was like drowning kittens ) had dispersed his shares on the Stock Exchange in 1931 . |
| 25 | He saw the purpose of it to be for advisers to gain a general view of the school — not to pick up on bad points . |
| 26 | They had interviewed a man from Bombay who claimed to have a degree in physics but turned out to be a defrocked dentist , and they had nearly offered a job to a man from Sri Lanka who seemed to know everything about the school apart from the fact that it was supposed to be for Muslims . |
| 27 | if it 's any consolation the new course is reckoned to be for experts only … ask Sandy Lyle … |
| 28 | The first to be for Members only and to be held on 8th . |
| 29 | Many of the appropriate works are likely to be for users who require a general introduction to a subject — even though , in some cases , the same user 's formal education may be highly advanced in another field . |
| 30 | In July it was disclosed that the Soviet Union was owed the equivalent of 87,500 million ( 25 per cent in convertible currencies ) , but much of this was believed to be for arms sales to poorer countries who were unable to repay it . |