Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There needs above all to be a consistency in the whole chain linking nature conservation policy with action on the ground . |
| 2 | In 1930 he was the youngest member of the Reichstag and was considered by all to be a high-flyer . |
| 3 | IT SEEMS that even in its own time the thirteenth-century motet was considered by many to be a sophisticated , subtle genre , only likely to appeal to the literati . |
| 4 | His Call to the Unconverted is considered by many to be the greatest work on conversion ever written . |
| 5 | Tracker 's Aggro trucks are considered by many to be the ‘ right on ’ truck at the moment . |
| 6 | The traditional , vertical Champagne press , based on the concepts employed by Dom Pérignon , is still considered by many to be the best means of pressing grapes for the sparkling wine of Champagne . |
| 7 | It is also considered by many to be the best surviving example of a tower mill . |
| 8 | Now , some ten years later , the airfield is bulging at the seams and is considered by many to be the warbird centre of Europe . |
| 9 | I have described these studies in detail because they are considered by many to be the best evidence for sophisticated residual pattern vision after visual cortex ablation . |
| 10 | Considered by many to be the country 's leading authority on the hair and scalp , Philip Kingsley has been practising from the London Trichological Centre , 54 Green Street , London W1 , since 1960 , composing individual trichological treatments for private clients only . |
| 11 | By the 1730s he was considered by many to be the richest commoner in England , and at his death his income from landed property , coalmining , investments in government funds , and mortgage holdings was around £25,000 annually . |
| 12 | The victory of Kennett , who was not considered by many to be the state 's most able or charismatic politician , was interpreted as clear evidence of massive dissatisfaction with the ALP , which had governed the state for the last 10 years , and was alleged to have overseen serious financial mismanagement under both Kirner and her predecessor John Cain . |
| 13 | It is precisely the ‘ business culture ’ introduced and propagated by the TNCs that is considered by many to be the sine qua non for ‘ modernization ’ ( as opposed to ‘ dependency reversal ’ or radical ‘ development ’ ) in the Third World . |
| 14 | The price to urban consumers of bearing the losses incurred ( probably of the order of 2 per cent of their bills ) would have been considered by many to be an acceptable concession to the aspirations of country dwellers , and perhaps few would have endorsed the complaint by a contemporary free-market economist that ‘ a slum dweller has to contribute to the cost of providing electricity for a country mansion ’ . |
| 15 | The transfer payments of the Poor Law — finally abolished and transformed into the ‘ Welfare State ’ in 1948 — were considered by many to be an intolerable burden . |
| 16 | However , the introduction of proposals which structurally divorce the providers of services from wider population considerations , may be considered by some to be a retrograde step and , in practice , may affect the type of care delivered . |
| 17 | Other candidates proposed have included Nicholas Turner of the British Museum , Andrew Robison of the National Gallery , Washington , Marguerite Stuffmann of the Städelsches Kunstinstitut , Frankfurt ( Goldner 's suggestion to the Met ) , Gandolfi expert Mimi Cazort of the National Gallery of Canada , and Bean 's own assistant curator , William M. Griswold , whose youth is considered by some to be a liability . |
| 18 | After the November 1989 general election Shekhar was considered by some to be a candidate for the premiership , despite having had no experience of ministerial office . |
| 19 | Which brings us to camp , considered by some to be the essence of the homosexual sensibility , by others , both within and without gay culture , as virtually the opposite : the quintessence of an alienated , inadequate sensibility ( above , Chapter 3 ) . |
| 20 | Its horns are lyre-shaped and it is considered by some to be the ancestor of the Guernsey . |
| 21 | In the afternoon , visit Sagaing , considered by some to be the living centre of the Buddhist faith in Burma today . |
| 22 | Major was perplexed that his niceness should be considered by some to be an electoral disadvantage . |
| 23 | This may be considered by some to be an invitation to explore the issue of whether the switching-off is an act or an omission ; for if it is an act , it may be an abetment . |
| 24 | Instead of accepting what may appear to many to be a cynical bribe , Radnorshire must deliver a clear message that it will not sell its beautiful countryside or the quality of life of its residents for cash . |
| 25 | At that time a woman-centred politics , culture , and sexuality seemed to many to be a useful tactic , or even the only worthwhile long-term goal . |
| 26 | In the later part of the decade , its theories and campaigns seemed to many to be the only active and innovative part of the western feminist movement , and affirming or rejecting it occupied an enormous proportion of feminist writing and talk . |
| 27 | Her marriage in 1137 to the heir to the French throne seemed at first to be an ideal match . |
| 28 | This well strange song from Young 's great ‘ Ragged Glory ’ LP is reckoned by many to be an oblique nod in the direction of Charlie . |
| 29 | Of the more than fifty books to come from the press , there is no doubt that the finest was his Chaucer of 1896 , reckoned by many to be the greatest book printed in England since Caxton , of which he printed 425 copies with an additional thirteen on vellum . |
| 30 | But it is worth investing in brand new , state-of-the-art equipment for what is argued by some to be an unhealthy form of cooking ? |