Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it was intended only to be a ‘ provisional ’ arrangement until Germany could be reunited . |
| 2 | We want finally to be a people 's army . ’ |
| 3 | The informant was expected usually to be the person 's nearest relative . |
| 4 | Mandatory reselection was won in 1979 and a new method for electing the leader of the party was adopted in 1981 which gave trade unions and constituency parties a major say , but there has still to be a change in the way in which the party manifesto is drawn up . |
| 5 | In ordinary language the accused does not intend to deprive the victim permanently of his umbrella , but s.6 deems there to be an intention permanently to deprive . |
| 6 | Section 3(1) deems there to be an appropriation where the accused " has come by the property ( innocently or not ) without stealing it " . |
| 7 | But , because I can not accept the idea of total predestination , it has then to be the human being who either succeeds or fails . |
| 8 | Even before the dispute began one woman had come forward to be a shop steward . |
| 9 | This is essentially a distinction between assessment as an integral part of the curriculum and assessment which is designed primarily to be a form of communication serving the needs of the outside world . |
| 10 | In the leaflet Dr Clarke says : ‘ Darlington has yet to be a Leicester or a Bradford . |
| 11 | There has therefore to be an agency of repression , and a means of maintaining repressed experiences in the unconscious state . |
| 12 | More recently , of course , Hytner has become the internationally acclaimed director of Miss Saigon , but he claims that he does n't want just to be a director of musicals , or only of anything else for that matter . |
| 13 | He felt irretrievably alone and the woman beside him seemed suddenly to be a total stranger . |
| 14 | She was waiting for him to kiss her , he realized , and it seemed suddenly to be the natural thing to do . |
| 15 | Three species of owl produce slightly higher levels of breakage of the teeth of their prey , mainly of isolated teeth rather than those preserved in the jaws , and these will be seen below to be the same species that produce the greatest degrees of digestion , namely the European eagle owl , tawny owl and little owl . |
| 16 | Beyond this , what might appear just to be a way of illustrating how motets were put together — singing the two or three different , often highly contrasted melodies individually before putting them together as a polyphonic , multi-texted whole — may equally well represent a valid reflection of the manner in which they were originally performed . |
| 17 | The man charged with throwing an egg at Mr Major at Eastleigh , Hants , on Monday was revealed yesterday to be a Labour Party member . |
| 18 | THE MAN charged with throwing an egg at Mr Major in Eastleigh , Hants , on Monday was revealed yesterday to be a Labour Party member . |
| 19 | Susannah Creese 's Asparagus Triptych , which won the young artists ' award , was the best thing in the show , even if it seemed hardly to be a watercolour . |
| 20 | Petr Uhl , a dissident in prison facing charges of spreading false information , was said yesterday to be a victim of disinformation . |
| 21 | Lord Gardiner said that they were secret , illegal , not morally justifiable and alien to the traditions of what he believed still to be the greatest democracy in the world . |
| 22 | This does not have to be the value paired with the summary value for X , although in this instance it happens also to be the value for the other South East . |
| 23 | This should not surprise you , for it happens also to be the case that they tend to be an exceptionally well-qualified crowd . |
| 24 | Even when allowance is made for meagre resources , there seemed often to be a wilful and needless callousness to many of these suburban barracks . |
| 25 | The ditch seemed a long time ago : two weeks and three days back to the lonely silent abandoned struggle in the attic , to the life that seemed now to be the dream , with Shellerton the reality . |
| 26 | I came here to be a good lord as well as the King 's most loyal servant ! |
| 27 | But it was the Whigs who won the general election ; and they returned to office committed to parliamentary reform , the measure which for all the variety of the causes of social unrest and of the disorders they prompted , came increasingly to be the focus of the general demand for change . |
| 28 | Assuming admissible statements to establish parliamentary intention are limited , as would appear presently to be the case , to parliamentary statements , there remain grey areas in the application of the rule . |
| 29 | The fact that the taxpayer may be said to benefit in some way from the overseas income — he was able to buy the property because the loan was made to him and he could only keep up , or he kept up , the payments of interest by using that income — is not enough to cause there to be a remittance . |
| 30 | Whatever the point of the conversation was , it held them both tense , their eyes staring until there seemed almost to be an invisible bond . |