Example sentences of "[prep] it [vb base] to be " in BNC.

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1 Although this is a powerful technique , which can crack someone 's skull open , exponents of it need to be aware that its very committed position makes them vulnerable to a sweeping counter-attack .
2 For example can we continue burning fossil fuel and will half of it continue to be absorbed by the ocean or is the ocean reaching saturation such that these equilibrium terms are being reached and future increases in C O two will be reflected in atmospheric build up , and it 's only atmospheric C O two that contributes to the greenhouse effect .
3 A further children 's book on gardening is worth noting here , Let's Go Gardening by Ursula Kruger ( Lutterworth , February , £9.95 , 0 7188 2879 8 ) , though portions of it seem to be the work of Wiggle the Worm and Sunny the Sunflower Seed .
4 The West Germans believe that the PFLP-GC was not involved in the bombing , even though Talb 's links with it appear to be a matter of record .
5 Furthermore , to pursue this metaphor , having selected a particular spiritual decor and furnishings , those who live in it come to be influenced by its stylistic and symbolic properties as well as its more obvious functional or utilitarian appropriateness .
6 Brooks emphasizes the internal contradictions of the poem : the fact that the urn is silent , but also speaks ; that it is motionless , yet the scenes depicted on it seem to be alive ; that unheard melodies are sweeter than those which one hears , and so on .
7 The reasons for it remain to be fully understood but it will certainly reopen the debate about this aspect of dependency — chosen or enforced ?
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