Example sentences of "[to-vb] be [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If prose is the lower medium , then the movement up to verse is a movement to a higher rank , and can be described in terms of the rituals known in anthropology as rites of passage . |
| 2 | The question to resolve is the extent to which Nizan 's practical experience of the USSR confirmed or altered these preconceptions . |
| 3 | More difficult to determine is the extent to which aid has freed resources for consumption , and so done little to increase investment levels in the manner envisaged by Rostow or Chenery . |
| 4 | For now the point to emphasize is the extent to which planning decisions , including the planning decisions of Labour-controlled North Tyneside Council between 1974 and the early 1980s , regarded working-class residential communities as movable pieces in the development game . |
| 5 | It can not be denied that Court–Country tensions did exist ; the question to consider is the extent to which they cut across party , and served to undermine the pattern of political allegiances mapped out above . |
| 6 | Even more difficult to assess is the extent to which and in what ways religion might be important to people . |
| 7 | There appears to have been a return to narrative , with more titles published and more copies sold ( although it must always be borne in mind that the Italian literary market is a relatively small one ) . |
| 8 | In those days , simply being British seems to have been a passport to the higher circles of whatever country the traveller set foot in . |
| 9 | The statement was believed to have been a reference to a letter written by Hurd on Aug. 1 to the British Conservative MP , Sir Peter Blaker , underlining the UK government 's respect for Islam and adding that " we understand that the novel , The Satanic Verses , was found deeply offensive by people of the Islamic faith " . |
| 10 | The party was meant to have been a thank-you to the casino staff from the management . |
| 11 | The party was meant to have been a thank-you to the casino staff from the management . |
| 12 | ( The final tightening of control seems to have been a response to Western actions . ) |
| 13 | ‘ I seem to have been a shock to a number of people . |
| 14 | John Tennant ( 1725–1810 ) , the father of the family , is thought to have been a witness to the baptism of Robert Burns , and it was he who joined the poet 's father , William Burness , in hiring a young school teacher for their sons at Alloway . |
| 15 | Gunners striker Paul Merson is believed to have been a witness to the incident . |
| 16 | One factor with which the Baghdad planners had failed to reckon seems to have been the contribution to an enemy 's performance of simple patriotism , the force which impels people to fight to defend their native soil against an invader , whatever they may have to say about the way things are run at home . |
| 17 | Dr George Kingsley seems to have been the key to Mary 's character — he was an inveterate traveller and his rare moments at home displayed tyrannical dominance and vanity , traits inherited by his daughter who both admired and resented him . |
| 18 | Catholicism is unlikely to have been the key to Clovis 's success . |
| 19 | The natural history of cervical cancer among older women is uncertain , but ‘ that little is known about the natural history of cancer of the cervix does not seem to have been an obstacle to the introduction of screening programmes for younger women . ’ |
| 20 | Nursing care based upon the nursing process is being widely implemented in the United Kingdom , and one of the main skills that nurses need to develop is the ability to be able to communicate effectively with the patient and his family , in order to be able to define the patient 's problems . |
| 21 | What is difficult to monitor is the extent to which ‘ language work ’ for primary teachers is provision of literacy teaching skills that are required for all primary teachers , analogous to the methods work of specialist language teachers . |
| 22 | The rain was splashing on the concrete , and the hole in it that he used to pretend was the way to Australia had filled up . |