Example sentences of "to be its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following were recently noted to be its complete contents |
| 2 | Borland 's Interbase Division is bucking up its international side having plucked James Fleming out of Versant Object Technology Inc to ride herd as vice president of worldwide sales and having recruited Tony Bowden , once Unify Corp 's managing director in the UK , to be its vice president , European operations , a new post . |
| 3 | Before 1848 it had seemed for a moment that its crisis of transition ( see The Age of Revolution , p. 304 ) might also prove to be its final crisis , at least in England , but in the 1850s it became clear that its major period of growth was only just beginning . |
| 4 | As the Second World War entered what was to be its final phase , Franco therefore stepped up his efforts to court Allied favour . |
| 5 | The society 's board of trustees is hoping that at least part of the funds it needs by June will come from government sources : in response to a stampede of scholars from around the world who invaded the library in what were to be its final days last month , local government provided an emergency $66,000 to keep the library open until 2 April . |
| 6 | Indeed , it was the ‘ anti-social ’ focus of the obscenity test which had proved to be its singular virtue , since when juries drew the line , they did so on grounds of morals , not manners . |
| 7 | There he pronounces Owenism 's insistence on the right of property to be its vitiating weakness and contrasts it unfavourably with those who ‘ could see that Socialism entailed the expropriation of the great land owners ’ ; and goes on to conclude that because Owen refused to face the problem of ownership and power , he was able to remain quite indifferent to political Radicalism and to lead the movement astray . |
| 8 | The struggle to determine the party 's attitude to the aspirations of Labour was to be its chief battleground for the next six years . |
| 9 | In some languages , such as Turkish , this seems to be its only function . |
| 10 | A legislature may quite conceivably , by oversight or even design , exceed what an international tribunal ( if such existed ) might hold to be its international rights . |
| 11 | Let us call to mind the ‘ representative firm ’ , whose economies of production , internal and external , are dependent on the aggregate volume of production of the commodity that it makes ; and , postponing all further study of the nature of this dependence , let us assume that the normal supply price of any amount of that commodity may be taken to be its normal expenses of production ( including gross earnings of managements ) by that firm . |
| 12 | I use it in what I take to be its essential sense , to mean that both the society as a whole and the system of government were organized on a principle of freedom of choice … |
| 13 | However , in emphasising the specifically capitalist form of the latter division , both Marx and Braverman exaggerate what they take to be its essential features : rationality and authoritarianism . |
| 14 | Adorno , in the grip of German idealism which , from Kant , had reckoned the essence of art to be its disinterested quality , absolutizes a specific musical ideal as the condition of productive musical work as such — at least , under capitalism . |
| 15 | It has served its country dutifully for over 30 years and we are delighted to be its new custodians . ’ |
| 16 | On May 13 he had enraged the opposition by dismissing the president and vice-president of the National Electoral Board and naming César Polack Romero to be its new head . |
| 17 | Data Sciences UK Ltd appointed Andy Roberts , formerly ICL PLc 's mid-range systems manager to be its new group chief executive with immediate effect : Roberts replaces Mike Smith , who resigned from the firm . |
| 18 | Data Sciences UK Ltd appointed Andy Roberts , formerly ICL PLc 's mid-range systems manager to be its new group chief executive with immediate effect : Roberts replaces Mike Smith , who resigned from the firm . |
| 19 | The most notable feature of the UK tax system appears to be its low reliance on social security taxes for state pension and unemployment provisions . |
| 20 | Sainsbury won much publicity when it appointed former Friends of the Earth director Jonathan Porritt to be its environmental policy adviser . |
| 21 | But even where it was extended from churches to houses , a spiritual asceticism seems to be its distinguishing characteristic . |
| 22 | She continued to be its sole occupant , even though Peter was back . |
| 23 | I was , therefore , necessarily concerned to put the matter before you in what I considered to be its right perspective . |
| 24 | But in the NWO America will always have to persuade someone : that , despite the fashion for unipolarity , seems likely to be its central fact . |
| 25 | Melangell 's grave slab has been reset in the floor of Cell-y-bedd and the shrine rebuilt to its full height in the chancel , which is believed to be its original position . |
| 26 | In order to provide a workable level of UK buyer knowledge , NCM has appointed Graydons to be its main provider of status information . |
| 27 | The relaunched company was primarily concerned with exporting textiles , and in particular Indian cotton goods , which continued to be its main line of business throughout the century and a half in which it traded with India . |
| 28 | Returning to Europe in 1915 , Smith served for a year as a military chaplain in France before joining the British and Foreign Bible Society , first as its secretary in Rome and then in other capacities , rising to be its editorial superintendent ( 1933–9 ) . |
| 29 | It was announced on Sept. 23 that the Eagle Party had agreed to subsume itself within the NDC in support of the candidacy of Rawlings ( the national congress of the Eagle Party having itself asked Rawlings on Sept. 13 to be its presidential candidate ) . |
| 30 | Its importance was highlighted by the fact that Britain 's most notorious extreme anti-semite , Archibald H. Maule Ramsay , MP appeared to be its guiding spirit , which explains why there is now significant intelligence information on this secret society ; the fact that Jewish sources , MI5 and the Council for Civil Liberties broadly confirm each other , suggests that the reports were reliable . |