Example sentences of "[verb] to be [art] [noun] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The passionate faith in the deep influence of the soil on man might at first sight appear to be an idea which a Marxist regime could easily harness to its own ideology , as was the Russian peasant 's deeply ingrained sense of co-operative toil on the land , a notion likewise derived from his dvoeverie . |
| 2 | To cope with these feelings of helplessness and infantile-like dependency on external events and factors there has to be a myth which allows for the possibility of being heroic , apart from being a martyr . |
| 3 | There has to be a force which operates truly in the best interests of the child , and there has to be recognition and understanding of the very difficult and narrow lines many social workers have to tread in dealing with the most harrowing cases . |
| 4 | At the same time , one introduces the idea of thermal energy , heat , and in many situations the requirement is in fact is to start from energy in one form , such as heat from burning oil , to satisfy a requirement for energy in another form , in other words mechanical energy — the turning of a shaft — so somewhere there has to be a device which converts the heat energy into mechanical energy . |
| 5 | Most arduous and spectacular gig trip of the week has to be the odyssey which befell SEAN O'HAGAN and the HIGH LLAMAS on their way to the Mean Fiddler . |
| 6 | Does he further agree that that needs to be a Europe which is not only open and ready to trade fully with the rest of the world , but also ready to grapple with the greatest danger facing European stability , a danger which was scarcely mentioned at Maastricht , and which must be faced by ensuring that the nations of eastern Europe make it all the way to open democracies and that the vast and scattered nuclear arsenal of the former Soviet Union is brought under proper control and we prevent a great proliferation of nuclear weapons in the successor states ? |
| 7 | This child is destined to be a sign which men reject ; and you too shall be pierced to the heart . |
| 8 | You get the same kind of picture you can get with X-rays , with what 's reckoned to be no harm whatsoever . |
| 9 | To require the D.P.P. 's consent before any prosecution for aggravated assault is brought merely on account of this matter , would appear to be a response which is both exaggerated and unwarranted . |
| 10 | The frets here seem as soft as those on the Villain , and this would appear to be an area which the company will have to address , as it does them a disservice ; do they know how long poor quality bass frets last ? |
| 11 | He did not appear to be the type which could be persuaded to turn traitor . |
| 12 | The question which arises is whether the family proceedings court can make an order for no contact ; that is whether it could properly be said to be an order which was ‘ appropriate ’ with respect to the contact between the child and the parent . |
| 13 | For Arsenal , on the other hand , it seemed to be the night which confirmed their fall from grace as the Premier League 's early season favourites . |
| 14 | Erm and we could offer this to the whole er er t to anyone who came to us and therefore be seen to be a church which was very accepting and outward going and missionary minded because all too often we hear ministers talking about erm using bapti baptism as an evangelical tool er c talk which I greatly resent and resist . |
| 15 | What do business directors consider to be the problems which have caused many factories to close ? |
| 16 | This was widely thought to be the factor which attracted Iranians to the Pasdaran and others , young and old , to the baeej , or volunteer corps . |
| 17 | Now when one goes , there tends to be a sameness which can be a bit of a let down , that you find much the same kind of thing as you would find in a church in Brighton or Lewes going on in Naples , and I do n't know quite how long this will last . |
| 18 | government , it it 's various years so I hate to sort of say , ah well council taxes cuts will be a bit lower er with the conservatives going to be an argument which is but halfway to equal counties so I think we can sort of discount really what the conservatives say but I will say the liberal democrats are to be . |
| 19 | Fourth , although subsidiarity was not defined in the Single European Act , it was certainly understood to be a principle which applied . |
| 20 | Moreover , it was understood to be a crime which was entirely foreign to the national character , and in one of its earliest references to the affair The Times ( 7 November 1862 ) registered the compulsive feeling that the new crime was ‘ un-British ’ : ‘ When the outrages first commenced , it was doubted whether the crime was not of foreign importation … but the ruffians who have been arrested arc of pure English breed . ’ |
| 21 | The hippocampus was already well known to be a structure which , in humans and non-human mammals alike , was in some way involved with memory . |
| 22 | ‘ There appears to be no danger whatsoever associated with radiation — hard or soft — from cathode-ray tubes . |
| 23 | This bias appears to be an effect which arises at time of retrieval and is independent of recognition sensitivity , Locksley et al. |
| 24 | Regardless of age health appears to be an attribute which is primarily associated with males . |
| 25 | This seems to be a word which is used loosely the world over , but nevertheless can be seen to have five fairly easily defined applications or meanings . |
| 26 | Interest seems to be a concept which is entirely theoretical and context-free . |
| 27 | The collective mind in action is clearly an important topic but it seems to be a challenge which psychologists have not yet taken up . |
| 28 | In some measure at least , the immutability of parties and party systems seems to be an illusion which results simply from taking an unhistorical view . |
| 29 | We take community policing to be a style which emphasizes the development of good relations between police and community , normally via active police involvement in , and contact with , the local community , and by deploying manpower in such a way that officers patrol a ‘ beat ’ on foot in order to build up familiarity with the local area . |
| 30 | However , the cases where the victim is named tend to be the cases which attract widespread or sustained coverage ( or both ) . |