Example sentences of "to [be] [art] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was prepared to make sacrifices for it , but there seemed to be no way she could even begin . |
| 2 | ‘ There appears to be no danger whatsoever associated with radiation — hard or soft — from cathode-ray tubes . |
| 3 | You get the same kind of picture you can get with X-rays , with what 's reckoned to be no harm whatsoever . |
| 4 | Today , in the early 1990s there seems to be every possibility their taste for autocracy and power might persuade the police that secrecy should take on a new dimension , so that sedition could acquire new status as a deviance , while even the ‘ espionage ’ of ethnography could well become actionable . |
| 5 | Erm and we could offer this to the whole er er t to anyone who came to us and therefore be seen to be a church which was very accepting and outward going and missionary minded because all too often we hear ministers talking about erm using bapti baptism as an evangelical tool er c talk which I greatly resent and resist . |
| 6 | This seems to be a word which is used loosely the world over , but nevertheless can be seen to have five fairly easily defined applications or meanings . |
| 7 | This was to be a problem which plagued the Soviet government throughout the 1920s and even today remains a problem of the first magnitude . |
| 8 | This child is destined to be a sign which men reject ; and you too shall be pierced to the heart . |
| 9 | It was said to be a sentence he 'll carry for the rest of his life . |
| 10 | The short cut turned out to be a lane which started abruptly at the bottom of a flight of steps opposite the Questura and ran straight down the hillside like a ruled line . |
| 11 | Furthermore , Mary is scarcely a woman whom women today might be expected to find to be a symbol who represents them . |
| 12 | Well and then there used to be a stripper it 's a a long thing like that and there and er you 'd put it on . |
| 13 | That seems to me to be a consideration which may be able to address in general terms by yourselves , but depends very much on the individual proposals , and and erm is is a matter of detail of the individual proposals , I 'm sure that you do n't want presented here the the fine detail of of individual proposals |
| 14 | Fourth , although subsidiarity was not defined in the Single European Act , it was certainly understood to be a principle which applied . |
| 15 | We would assume that the discussion , in such a case , would cease to be a discussion which appealed to primarily linguistic evidence in this piece of discourse . |
| 16 | If there is to be a rehearsal you may prefer them to bring a practice leotard in order to keep any specially chosen outfit for the performance . |
| 17 | Mum this is supposed to be a silhouette it looks more like a black tree to me ha ha it 's supposed to be a silhouette . |
| 18 | The baby-faced rapist knocked on her door in the early hours , claiming to be a neighbour who had locked himself out in the pouring rain . |
| 19 | Following Socrates , the young Plato ( 429–347 ) who had aspired to be a tragedian himself , repudiated tragedy and art in generals even burning his own plays . |
| 20 | Born at Épinal in the Vosges , Durkheim was Jewish and brought up to be a rabbi which , however , he did not become , turning instead to the new science of sociology . |
| 21 | That used to be a pub I think . |
| 22 | They were afraid that he would be unhappy about their success , because he had wanted to be a writer himself . |
| 23 | The bonus with St Francis is in helping pupils to appreciate a depth in what it means to be a Christian which is so easily today seen at a superficial externalist level . |
| 24 | In fact you wo n't get any sexually mature erm er woman to have er any relationship with men , unofficial or otherwise if you 're not initiated because they 'll just say you 're a boy and , and er and er an adult woman would feel it was demeaning you know to sleep with a mere boy , she 'd insist you 've got to be a man and to be a man you normally got to be initiated and that normally means being circumcised . |
| 25 | He is so young and innocent ; although he pretends to be a man he is still only a schoolboy . |
| 26 | On this level of mere temperamental affinity ( not considering its truth or falsehood ) we feel Lewis to be a man who would be most happy in Christian garb . |
| 27 | He was popularly supposed to be a man who not only told the truth , but who could not tell a lie , and the senator 's aides and publicists were not unhappy to promulgate that echo of a previous President 's virtues . |
| 28 | He is thought to be a man who is going to increase taxes , not one who is cutting the deficit . |
| 29 | Then suddenly a demoniacal light had entered his eyes and , since he seemed to be a man who would set about proving his own theories — in this case that it was inconceivable that she should be as innocent as she would appear — he took a couple of steps forward and reached for her . |
| 30 | He had seemed to be a man who knew his way around . |