Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [be] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These six poems are a brief moment of religious experience in an age that believes religion to be a kind of defeatism and puts its hope for man in finding the right secular order . |
| 2 | After only three weeks Richter announced his experiment to be a success . |
| 3 | Once again , we would not expect the perception to be a problem . |
| 4 | The son of a former officer in the Dragoon Guards , Captain Donald Swan , who still trains in Tipperary , Charlie obviously had racing in his blood and after leaving school at 15 he had made up his mind to be a jockey . |
| 5 | If a man perceives a necklace placed about his neck to be a noose , then he will expect to be hanged . |
| 6 | Some people considered this stranger to be a devil changed into the illusion of an angel of light , or a witch . |
| 7 | Daniels ' burning ambition to be a magician came as an 11-year-old tinkering around with a box of magic given to him as a present , and it has paid off . |
| 8 | She welcomes discomfort , counts hostile situations and relishes third world countries , for she is driven by her life long ambition to be a travel photographer and this trip marked the first rung on the ladder . |
| 9 | She welcomes discomfort , counts hostile situations and relishes third world countries , for she is drive by her life long ambition to be a travel photographer and this trip marked the first rung on the ladder . |
| 10 | A DARLINGTON man can not fulfil his life-long ambition to be a chauffeur because he is too young . |
| 11 | Staring straight ahead at the road before him , the driver went on talking , telling me of his boyhood ambition to be a footballer and of the Mafia-like behaviour of the modern IRA . |
| 12 | Leslie Brent was denied his ambition to be a cook . |
| 13 | He gave a hard smile , and said , ‘ The only one that I knew could fulfil my ambition to be a multimillionaire before I was thirty . ’ |
| 14 | Another of his specialities was plate-spinning — Maskelyne traced his first ambition to be a conjuror to his experience as a boy watching Antonio Blitz , a famous plate-spinner , perform . |
| 15 | Being deaf has n't stopped Karen fulfilling her ambition to be a hairdresser . |
| 16 | It was love that kept me going ; it was ambition to be a poet that fuelled Dana 's labour and yoked it with mine . |
| 17 | After university , she pressed on with her ambition to be a journalist , joining Scotland 's Sunday Post in Dundee . |
| 18 | When Hannah declared her ambition to be a teacher , Bloomsbury House replied that it was doubtful ‘ if she could be released from essential work to take up full-time study ’ . |
| 19 | Her ambition to be a painter was thwarted by acute shortness of sight which made her turn to gardening , ‘ making pictures with living plants ’ to use her own words ; and she became famous for the gardens she created and the books she wrote . |
| 20 | Then Vincent heard , in this nest of artistic vipers , that Tersteeg was laughing at Vincent 's absurd ambition to be a painter . |
| 21 | In 1825 Thanet died , and with him went Creevey 's ambition to be a politician . |
| 22 | He is not a devious or deceitful man , and he has no ambition to be an actor . |
| 23 | At the end of the play she had declared to Crowe her ambition to be an actress . |
| 24 | The ‘ observer as participant ’ is known by the group under study to be an observer but has been accepted , temporarily , by the group and allowed temporary membership to enable him to carry out the research . |
| 25 | Of the three carriers of hepatitis B surface antigen ( all positive for antibodies to hepatitis B e antigen ) one was a general practitioner 's receptionist and two were nurses , one of whom was known through antenatal screening to be a hepatitis B carrier . |
| 26 | ‘ By the time the band releases its next album , we expect the practice to be a memory . |
| 27 | This is an understandable reaction to some of the less interesting programmes of what turns out in practice to be a kind of " library drill " : aimless trots through catalogues and reference books by pupils carrying work-cards or slips of typed paper setting them questions to answer which nobody apart from a desperate teacher-librarian would ever think to ask . |
| 28 | Rather , if one considered the nineteen years of Jordanian rule to be an interruption in the physical integrity of Palestine , it could be argued that ever since the beginning of the century an increasing proportion of the agricultural labour force of the Palestinian uplands provided seasonal labour on the coastal plain for Jewish , Arab and other industrial and agricultural enterprises . |
| 29 | So also where a sublease provided for the rent to be a proportion of the rent " payable " by the landlord " in the manner fixed " under the headlease , it was held that the rent review clause in the sublease was capable of operation despite the surrender of the headlease ( R & A Millett ( Shops ) Ltd v Leon Allan International Fashions Ltd [ 1989 ] 1 EGLR 138 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ But I 'm studying at college to be a farmer . ’ |