Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It revealed Docherty to be a witty , compulsive and outspoken man who feels cheated by the past . |
| 2 | It looks set to be a monster success , even though some youngsters at last night 's premiere said it was too scary . |
| 3 | It looks set to be a monster success , even though some youngsters at last night 's premiere said it was too scary . |
| 4 | The central question , however , is : what does it feel like to be a humanities student ? |
| 5 | The UWC was a far more serious threat than the UBC had been : it was entirely outside the control of the party leaders and backed by over a hundred MPs ; it was aimed at a government that included Unionists as well as Liberals ; and it seemed likely to be a vehicle for the overthrow of Bonar Law by Carson . |
| 6 | It 's not the greatest gig ever and resembles a scene from Casualty , but it shows Lush to be a band full of spunk and I think Freddy would have been proud . |
| 7 | It seems unlikely to be a powerful statement of meaning for the participants in a cultural context that tells and hears the myth — the myth has its meaning in its content . |
| 8 | It seems unlikely to be an infectious agent that is causing the problem as only Koi and Orfe are affected . |
| 9 | But that would be inconsistent with his other errors , and it seems likelier to be a slip . |
| 10 | But all in all , it seems likely to be a long time before we reach that ‘ Utopian world of RDS ’ for all listeners in cars , at home or on foot ! |
| 11 | ‘ Then the play opened and on the first Friday it looked set to be the day . |
| 12 | Bradbury 's first novel , Eating People is Wrong ( 1959 ) , tells what it felt like to be a first-generation student in a civic university like Leicester in the 1950s , puzzled and intrigued as a humble newcomer by liberal values of knowledge-for-its-own-sake and a wholly unfamiliar style of life . |
| 13 | It is after all quite difficult to remember exactly what it felt like to be a small person when you yourself have n't been one for thirty or forty years . |
| 14 | I know what it feels like to be a babe . ’ |
| 15 | SALLY Gunnell reckons she now knows what it feels like to be a marked woman but Britain 's golden girl insists she will be able to cope with the new-found pressure when she launches her world championship campaign in earnest in Rome tonight . |
| 16 | The principle of electrolocation , as it has been called , is fairly well understood at the level of physics though not , of course , at the level of what it feels like to be an electric fish . |