Example sentences of "to be its [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In France the Third Republic inherited from the old monarchy and the Second Empire a long tradition of such support for Catholic missions in the Near East and China and showed itself as willing as its predecessors to shoulder what it felt to be its obligations in this respect . |
| 2 | The strength of Oulton 's art is now revealed to be its sympathy with decorative rather than ‘ masterly ’ traditions . |
| 3 | These recent theories , whether they deal with an intellectual movement — the invention of a new doctrine — or with the social process of industrialization , are obviously concerned mainly with the nationalism of the twentieth century and with what are claimed to be its roots in the social , cultural and political changes which occurred in Western Europe during the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | A girl had been murdered and their sole concern seemed to be its effect on their own convenience . |
| 5 | It was not long after the unearthing of the Phillips curve that economists and , later , policy makers came to grasp the full force of what they thought to be its implications for the conduct of demand management by the monetary and fiscal authorities . |