Example sentences of "[vb base] [adj] to be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seven out of 10 expect Labour to be the biggest party and on average they predict the FT-SE 100 index will be almost 80 points lower than last night 's close of 2393.2 if Neil Kinnock is in Downing Street tomorrow . |
| 2 | ‘ I expect that to be the same this time , but a fortnight away from Russia is a long time and things change so quickly , ’ said the bespectacled runner . |
| 3 | Expect 1993 to be the year of the pen . |
| 4 | They expect 1929 to be the best year ever for rubber production . |
| 5 | Erm I 'm actually based in our Harrogate office which is our corporate worldwide headquarters , we consider that to be the centre of the universe . |
| 6 | Now you consider that to be the most outstanding needs at this moment in time ? |
| 7 | Working on the basis that there is a finite number of hill walkers , and I believe that to be the case , then spreading the load will only have a good effect on the more popular hills — some of which are showing signs of over-use . |
| 8 | Even if the student is not able to come up with alternative offerings of his or her own , at least he or she can say with some honesty : ‘ I believe that to be the case , and this is why . ’ |
| 9 | Well I certainly I believe that to be the case . |
| 10 | I believe that to be the case |
| 11 | Erm , and I understand that to be the position . |
| 12 | Some historians believe this to be the burial place of the Saxon king , Swaine , from whom the name of the village is reputed to have been derived . |
| 13 | But Naked Lunch bid fair to be the ultimate amalgamation of mind and body , the gloop-fest of the century . |
| 14 | Some still think this to be the case . |
| 15 | ( After quite a few months of use , I still think these to be the best settings for ploughed land . ) |
| 16 | If we say that such-and-such a group of words are the " subject " or that some other group of words are the " predicate " in a copular verb phrase , we are , by such observations , recognizing the speaker 's intention to construct expressions which will identify certain properties and entities , and to assign some of the former to one of the latter , so as to let an audience know what entities are under attention and which properties are claimed to hold for which entities ; we take this to be the essence of what goes on in the use and understanding of linguistic expression ( whatever the purpose to which individual acts of communication are directed ) . |