Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] to be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been suggested that he has claimed to have absorbed the banned substance through eating meat but one observer claimed cryptically yesterday : ‘ He would have to eat three cows a day for that to be the case . ’ |
| 2 | But again , and in more than one sense , we see too much of Bloom for that to be the whole explanation . |
| 3 | The care of elderly people will not inevitably deteriorate in the future , but the potential for this to be the case underlines the importance of close monitoring of the impact of Working for Patients on the future quality of the National Health Service . |
| 4 | But how queer for this to be the logical condition of someone 's having such-and-such an experience ! |
| 5 | In practice though , as we saw , Beccaria thought that most people had not developed their rational insight sufficiently for this to be the case — full rational insight had only been achieved by ‘ some few thinking men in every nation in every age ’ . |
| 6 | It is unusual for this to be the normal form of additions . |
| 7 | Moreover , the simplification can not be made , as it can in the terrestrial planets , that the influence of temperature on density is slight compared with the influence of pressure : the temperature change with depth in adiabatic lapse-rate models of Jupiter is much too large for this to be the case . |
| 8 | In order for this to be the case , at least two conditions must be met . |
| 9 | I have found the best of these to be the ‘ Gardena ’ ( see Treasure Hunting December 1990 and April 1991 ) . |
| 10 | Even if one assumed the uptake of Ac-ASA to be the total measured drug , including the adherent component ( 30.7 nmol/g dry weight ) , it would still be significantly inferior to the uptake of 5-ASA . |
| 11 | They favoured a rival draft of the bill , put forward by the nationalist Matica Slovenska organization , which called for Slovak to be the sole official language . |
| 12 | Within Britain , with the unifying factor of a common West Indian opponent gone , one function of antislavery organisation was to make a competitive claim against other tendencies within antislavery to be the true legatees of a triumphant cause . |
| 13 | In the later part of the decade , its theories and campaigns seemed to many to be the only active and innovative part of the western feminist movement , and affirming or rejecting it occupied an enormous proportion of feminist writing and talk . |
| 14 | Which brings us to camp , considered by some to be the essence of the homosexual sensibility , by others , both within and without gay culture , as virtually the opposite : the quintessence of an alienated , inadequate sensibility ( above , Chapter 3 ) . |
| 15 | A swing of 20 per cent to these , if repeated across the country , would produce an Opinion Poll Government , thought by some to be the ultimate embodiment of democratic values . |
| 16 | Its horns are lyre-shaped and it is considered by some to be the ancestor of the Guernsey . |
| 17 | Examples here prove that the preferred colour was a striking red , not faded pink believed by some to be the original colour . |
| 18 | In the afternoon , visit Sagaing , considered by some to be the living centre of the Buddhist faith in Burma today . |
| 19 | His Call to the Unconverted is considered by many to be the greatest work on conversion ever written . |
| 20 | Tracker 's Aggro trucks are considered by many to be the ‘ right on ’ truck at the moment . |
| 21 | The traditional , vertical Champagne press , based on the concepts employed by Dom Pérignon , is still considered by many to be the best means of pressing grapes for the sparkling wine of Champagne . |
| 22 | It is also considered by many to be the best surviving example of a tower mill . |
| 23 | Of the more than fifty books to come from the press , there is no doubt that the finest was his Chaucer of 1896 , reckoned by many to be the greatest book printed in England since Caxton , of which he printed 425 copies with an additional thirteen on vellum . |
| 24 | Now , some ten years later , the airfield is bulging at the seams and is considered by many to be the warbird centre of Europe . |
| 25 | It 's thought by many to be the most beautiful of the Cuillin corries and takes the hillwalker in among the most impressive peaks . |
| 26 | Milton 's God was Empson 's last book , in his lifetime , though when he died he was collecting at least three others : Using Biography ( 1984 ) , on Marvell , Dryden , Fielding , Yeats , Eliot and Joyce ; Essays on Shakespeare ( 1986 ) ; and a book of Renaissance essays , as well as a massive ragbag ( as he called it ) of papers and reviews dating back to the 1920s which , when it posthumously appeared as Argufying ( 1987 ) , was rapidly seen by many to be the finest critical miscellany in the language . |
| 27 | I have described these studies in detail because they are considered by many to be the best evidence for sophisticated residual pattern vision after visual cortex ablation . |
| 28 | Considered by many to be the country 's leading authority on the hair and scalp , Philip Kingsley has been practising from the London Trichological Centre , 54 Green Street , London W1 , since 1960 , composing individual trichological treatments for private clients only . |
| 29 | By the 1730s he was considered by many to be the richest commoner in England , and at his death his income from landed property , coalmining , investments in government funds , and mortgage holdings was around £25,000 annually . |
| 30 | The style is thought by many to be the fastest of all karate schools . |