Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The issue was of far greater importance to Japan than to Russia , yet the Tsar and most of his ministers expected the Japanese to be easily intimidated . |
| 2 | Mayor of Winglebury ( fict. ) , a shady attorney whose muddled intervention averts a duel between Alexander Trott and Horace Hunter , but causes the former to be treated as a lunatic . |
| 3 | His team re-wrote the Turkish record books in the 1991/92 campaign by becoming the first to be undefeated in an entire League programme , joining Trabzonspor and Galatasaray as the only ones to win the championship three seasons running . |
| 4 | Two scientists , Schumman and Went , sampled other pines there in the mid-1950s and found the oldest to be about 4900 years , thereby almost doubling the age of their then nearest competitor , the sequoias . |
| 5 | In general , most employers would consider the following to be important : |
| 6 | She judged the first to be that of some official and wondered what such a one would be doing there at an hour now close to midnight . |
| 7 | The book of Genesis tells how God had created the world in six days and commanded the seventh to be a day of rest . |
| 8 | Hideously scarred mutants in metal machines — the survivors of a terrible thermonuclear war — capture and imprison them , believing the four to be Thals , the other race on this planet whom these Daleks once fought . |
| 9 | We consider the latter to be suspect in any case , as the data are too scattered to form true isochrons . |
| 10 | With reference to the article in your April issue of Tennis World , ‘ Expansion Programme for JTC ’ , in which my name was mentioned , I would like the following to be noted . |
| 11 | And he thought , I must n't have these thoughts , I have no status here , I have n't even got the right to be jealous ! |
| 12 | In the need to maintain a belief in civilisation , practices are condoned which , in this case , allowed the Irish to be guilty by racial association for atrocities carried out by members of the IRA . |
| 13 | These are then innocently repeated and alas , the accurate circuits are forgotten , and yet it costs no more to be correct . |
| 14 | How would they like a stranger to be in control of the way they look for the next six months ? ’ |
| 15 | He really has got a right to be angry . |
| 16 | ‘ You 've got every right to be mad at me , Mike . |
| 17 | ‘ They 've got every right to be . |
| 18 | In addition , the terms of the treaty would probably enable the Mediterranean to be dominated militarily by American forces based in Europe or by allies of the United States . |
| 19 | Early in the new year , when the king ordered the ninth to be collected from the clergy despite their earlier exemption , the archbishop excommunicated the collectors who complied . |
| 20 | If we misjudge , and treat what is given as new , we will be boring ; in the reverse case when we assume the new to be given , we will be incomprehensible . |
| 21 | In 1301 Boniface VIII ordered a tenth to be levied for three years ; in 1305 Clement V imposed a septennial tenth upon the clergy . |
| 22 | The outputs of computer and video can be viewed on separate screens or there are monitors which allow the two to be combined . |
| 23 | It is not obvious whether there are any other independent aspects of the syntactic structure which may influence the question whether a minor property qualifies another property or " passes through " it to reach a referential locus ; we may provisionally assume that the nature of the individual lexical items provides the primary constraint on whether a property qualifying another property finds the latter to be permeable or not . |
| 24 | According to unofficial Armenian reports at least 17 Armenian villagers were killed and over a hundred wounded , and the Armenian authorities alleged that the troops were refusing to allow the wounded to be evacuated for medical treatment . |
| 25 | Tektronix expects its X terminals emulating the 3270 to be hugely successful with users wanting to replace terminals with a windowed environment without the pain of retraining staff on a new system . |
| 26 | Assuming the latter to be the case , a specimen letter of resignation might read as follows : The Directors XYZ Limited ( Registered Office ) |
| 27 | The Church of England has declared the 1990s to be the Decade of Evangelism ; but some people think evangelism is already doing too well . |
| 28 | The liquid within them , moving over their sensitive inside surface , enabled the proto-fish to be aware of its posture in the water . |
| 29 | Despite the essential superficiality of much of this contact , the traditional empathy between the nations has assisted the Japanese to be on good terms with a regime whose political ideology is the antithesis of their own . |
| 30 | He called all others who felt a stirring to be involved in subsequent sending out of church planting teams to come forward . |