Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stendhal , on his return to his adopted city after an absence of two years , claimed La Scala to be the most important opera in the world , since which time no one has felt the need , or had the temerity , to fault his judgement . |
| 2 | Seems that Louis Gerstner has decided that the IBM Corp culture has to be changed from the top down as a priority , and he has again gone outside the company — and the computer industry — for a senior appointment , hiring Gerald Czarnecki , chairman and chief executive of the Bank of America Hawaii unit of BankAmerica Corp to be the new senior vice-president in charge of human resources and administration . |
| 3 | Weights for The Ladbroke Hurdle to be run at Leopardstown on January 13 were announced yesterday . |
| 4 | The possibility of ending of National Service was not mentioned in these guidelines , but it was the first item on the agenda of subjects to be discussed , and it was seen in the Whitehall market-place to be the political ‘ Blue Chip' stock of the year . |
| 5 | Campaigners , calling for the convictions of Tony Poole and Gary Mills to be quashed have been given renewed hope after Gloucester MP Douglas French , met with Home Office officials . |
| 6 | In August , 1944 I was flying Mustangs from Grimbergen , through to the Arnhem campaign , and my memories are that we were the first RAF Squadron to be based near Brussels , and only a matter of a few days after our armies had liberated that City . |
| 7 | On one level , it is quite a good joke in the decade of Brecht 's Der Gute Mensch von Sezuan to be relishing the washing-up scene in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in the decade of Sartre 's La Nausée and ( as far as English publication was concerned ) Joyce 's Ulysses , to be whooping with delight at the reprint of Adventures of Tom Pippin by Roland Zuiz . |
| 8 | The Russian side says the Ministry of Science looks toward the EUnet/Relcom network , the former Soviet Union Internet node , to provide communication links and appointed the current president of Relcom Corp , Alexie Soldatov , and the director of the Russian Institute for Developing Public Networks/RELARN project co-ordinator , Alexie Platonov to be responsible for this area . |
| 9 | Sun 's Tsunami forces reportedly have orders from Sun chief Scott McNealy to be ‘ animalistic , ’ ripping up the old price book and standing the computer industry status quo on its head . |
| 10 | I found Siglo XX to be a ghost town . |
| 11 | The Israeli Peace Now organization ( on July 23 ) and Palestinian representatives claimed that this decision would allow the population of some 120,000 settlers in 140 Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza strip to be increased by a further 50,000 . |
| 12 | Cherbonnier & Sibuet ( 1972 ) consider S. pulvirus to be distinct from S. verrilli because the infradental papillae lie above the teeth and are contiguous , not lying on the same level as and separated by the ventral most tooth as in Lyman 's holotype , and the ventralmost tooth , i.e. the one next to the infradental papillae is block-like whereas in the holotype of S. verrilli it is tricuspid . |
| 13 | Although the Crown Prosecution Service and Attorney General 's office were adopting the usual caution of lawyers yesterday , there can be no doubt that TODAY 's demand for the Courtney sentence to be re-examined has led to action . |
| 14 | The Clio is the only Renault car to be fitted with the 1.2-litre Energy engine . |
| 15 | Det Sgt Hardy Jones of Darlington CID said police would be stepping up their surveillance of the area and advised women walking around Harrowgate Hill to be on their guard . |
| 16 | This is hardly surprising since temporary equilibrium models lack a coherently articulated theory of interest which would allow the Keynes effect to be activated . |
| 17 | Of course , it was necessary for S.M.E.T. cars to be towed over L.C.C . |
| 18 | Second , failure of supporters of other parties to transfer votes on elimination caused these to be non-transferable and made it possible for VUPP candidates to be elected " without reaching the quota " in the last stage of a count . |
| 19 | THE outlook for retail sales is seen by Midland Montagu Research to be of ‘ pivotal importance to the economy . ’ |
| 20 | Indeed , access of only a few P. falciparum antigens to class I molecules , and the tendency of CTL responses to be focused on one or few foreign antigens , as observed in some other infections , may tend to magnify HLA class I differences in malaria susceptibility : LSA-1 is abundant within the parasitophorous vacuole . |
| 21 | In a Bundestag debate on the Rabta affair [ see pp. 36385 ; 36411 ] on Jan. 18 , 1989 , Schäuble , then Head of the Federal Chancellery , announced that the federal government had received as far back as August 1987 information that Imhausen-Chemie , a West German company , had been involved in the construction in Libya , of a plant deemed by United States intelligence to be capable of manufacturing chemical weapons . |
| 22 | By promoting the exchange of ideas and experiences , the lessons learned and technologies applied can be adapted by LASMO engineers to be reapplied and to add value to new ventures . |
| 23 | Many of the women wept unashamedly , for Tristram was not the only Polruan boy to be going to sea for the first time . |
| 24 | See Martin Sheen drunkenly method act himself into a heart attack , watch made Marlon improvise pure nonsense out of thin air and discover the real-life Dennis Hopper to be more manic than his character . |
| 25 | But the conversation at college dinners suggests that the Delegates would prefer the interface between Gown and Grub Street to be controlled by an academic , and the appointment of one such into a sort of non-executive chairman 's role is made possible by the fact that OUP has strong divisional managing directors . |
| 26 | Raima UK is likely to be joint-owned by the two companies , and is said by Systemstar 's David Turley to be ‘ the inevitable consequence of our selling the product for the last five years ’ . |
| 27 | Vilson Ahmeti , a " non-party intellectual " and outgoing Nutrition Minister , was asked on Dec. 10 by President Ramiz Alia to be the new Prime Minister , the first time this post was offered to a non-communist . |
| 28 | It would have been impossible for the Falklands War to be prosecuted successfully with every decision coming to the full Cabinet of twenty-three members , a state of affairs that would have taken every other item off the agenda . |
| 29 | They are essentially a form of nonsense verse for which Eliot had great affection and understanding ; he had lectured on the subject while in America in 1933 , and he once told Stravinsky that he considered Edward Lear to be a great poet and compared him with Mallarmé . |
| 30 | He had even painted the convent where I had sought consolation in my early homesickness and had agreed with Mother Joseph that I should apply to the Mother House to be accepted as a postulant and return in the course of time , if God so willed , as a professed nun to help her teach the children and grow the herbs and milk the goats and say the prayers in the cool chapel . |