Example sentences of "[vb base] to [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The law provides that if a member of a local authority fails throughout a period of six consecutive months to attend any meeting of the local authority he shall , unless the failure was due to some reason approved by the local authority before the expiry of that period , cease to be a member of the authority . |
| 2 | Only after the contract takes effect does the agent ( putatively ) ‘ cease to be a person ’ . |
| 3 | It may not be too long before farm workers cease to be a majority of those engaged in farming . |
| 4 | It was there my husband and I began to develop our theories , Darcian Monetarism as it came to be called : that the answer to our current economic ills is not to control inflation but to encourage it until we cease to be a money economy altogether . |
| 5 | ( d ) Termination of party status Any person may ask the court to order that he or another person cease to be a party to proceedings ( FPCR , r7(2) ; FPR , r4.7(2) ) . |
| 6 | His two concessions to luxury appear to be a passion for fast cars — he is the proud owner of a turbo-Bentley — and a 5,000 acre estate in Scotland . |
| 7 | Under capitalism the market and the desire to accumulate wealth appear to be a sufficient basis for social interaction and for regulating communal life ; things and impersonal economic mechanisms have replaced people 's commitment to each other while ‘ the ancient conception in which man always appears ( in however narrowly national , religious or political a definition ) as the aim of production , seems very much more exalted that the modern world in which production is the aim of man and wealth the aim of production ’ [ p. 84 ] . |
| 8 | The West Germans believe that the PFLP-GC was not involved in the bombing , even though Talb 's links with it appear to be a matter of record . |
| 9 | For during this first term the long regular letters to Harry Hooton appear to be a substitute for letters to Helen and a roundabout way of informing her of his progress . |
| 10 | Many flowers appear to bees to be ultraviolet-coloured even though to us they appear to be a quite different colour . |
| 11 | The West Midlands survey showed that staff shortages appear to be a common cause of that stress . |
| 12 | It is not unknown for a suburban bureau to have a waiting list of potential volunteers , but in the main staff shortages appear to be a problem equally in suburban and inner-city areas . |
| 13 | We appear to be a long way from finding effective means of primary prevention of attempted suicide . |
| 14 | Tape-slide presentations appear to be a suitable medium for conveying the type of information used in library education . |
| 15 | Most disruption works by making continuous outlines appear to be discontinuous , but the Splash Principle operates in the opposite way , making what is in reality a discontinuous surface appear to be a continuous one . |
| 16 | Dowsing and other devices , including the various ‘ ley detectors ’ invented by Jimmy Goddard , appear to be a way of bringing this general psychic awareness into focus , demonstrating it in a form which our conscious mind can handle . |
| 17 | The Fender Lytes appear to be a popular option , as are the recently reviewed Bass Collection instruments . |
| 18 | FAMILY and property matters appear to be a moving experience in December . |
| 19 | They all look the same , in cut-off jeans , tee-shirt , unwashed hair , and appear to be a motley collection of idle college students . |
| 20 | ‘ Under the circumstances , ’ PW says , ‘ without such essential evidence and insofar as it bears on the activities of Price Waterhouse UK in the matter , the findings of the Kerry report appear to be a hotch potch of hearsay , conjecture and unsubstantiated assertion . ’ |
| 21 | The video is a cruel critic and will immediately show whether you appear to be a victim or a survivor . |
| 22 | The aircraft featured on this recent example , which measures some 10″ in diameter , appear to be a Junkers Ju 88s . |
| 23 | After a few days a population of adherent migratory cells is found surrounding the initial explant , which by various criteria , including contribution to melanocytes in vivo ( 13 ) , appear to be a relatively pure population of neural crest cells . |
| 24 | Since linguistic change and rapid dialect mixing appear to be a general characteristic of urban dialects ( Labov 1972b : 300 ) , it seems reasonable to assume that insight can be gained into the processes of their formation if a set of data from a city is compared with a set from a surrounding area . |
| 25 | This means that what appear to be a number of completely different particles at low energies are in fact found to be all the same type of particle , only in different states . |
| 26 | ‘ If I may say so , ’ she told him , ‘ you appear to be a man with a weakness for making judgements on very little evidence . ’ |
| 27 | Dwayne pulls it out , hunkers down and says , ‘ You appear to be a pilot without a plane . |
| 28 | These appear to be a stylised cornice pattern , i.e. a partial or simplified representation of the pattern which encloses the central square in mosaic B. There are no hooked leaves in the former — as there are in that of mosaic B — and those which are " erect " do not have the long , thin stem of their more elaborate counterparts . |
| 29 | Moreover the squares , when compared to the saltires ( with their strong diagonal accent ) appear to be a less important , feature of design . |
| 30 | There appear to be a lot jotted throughout , but they do n't amount to a vast amount of money . |