Example sentences of "[noun] to [be] its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even those hostile found the play 's closeness to music hall to be its strength . |
| 2 | The Soviet Union wanted Cuba to be its ally so gave Cuba many weapons including nuclear missiles . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , Next has plucked up one of Sun 's men , hiring Bob Lawton , an Interactive Systems Corp legacy , away from Solaris-on-Intel product marketing to be its NextStep 80486 program manager , a newly created position . |
| 4 | Indeed , if his ( undated ) grant to the abbey of Fécamp ( S 949 ) is genuine , one might suppose that he visited the Norman coast at some time , and his generosity to a foundation which had been particularly favoured by the ducal family ( in 1001 Richard II invited the celebrated monastic reformer William of Dijon to be its abbot ) seems most likely to mean that his relations with them were still satisfactory . |
| 5 | Jelfs originally helped SCO to set up in Australia and has been poached by Univel to be its number one employee in the Asia/Pacific region , responsible for everywhere except Japan . |
| 6 | We have gone from being the bread basket of Central America to being its basket case ; an international beggar with the largest per capita foreign debt in Latin America . |
| 7 | John de Menil conceived the idea of a catalogue raisonné of the artist 's work then and asked David Sylvester to be its editor ; the Foundation has been supporting the project ever since . |