Example sentences of "to what [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today the cottages are being largely restored to what purports to be their former glory , occupied by middle-class commuters with the standard family ) size of 4. 4 people . |
| 2 | Mr Major achieved one of the most remarkable comebacks in modern politics to lead the Tories to what looked to be a narrow overall majority . |
| 3 | In foreign affairs , his first priority was to end the Vietnam War , while at home he made a frank appeal to what came to be called " middle america " : the " good , decent , tax-paying , law-abiding people , the forgotten Americans " . |
| 4 | This was due not only to economies of scale but also to what came to be known as the experience curve . |
| 5 | Once I went down with Jane to the village pub and we sat in the front parlour on our own , listening to what seemed to be a male voice choir performing in the next room , accompanied by mysterious foot shufflings and stampings . |
| 6 | The issue of power brings a thread of coherence to what appear to be divergent reforms . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , this latter conclusion tends to be at odds with more conventional data which suggests that real markets often do not converge to what appear to be their equilibrium values ; an obvious example is the labour market . |
| 8 | Section 22 and s23 of the Arbitration Act 1950 preserve the right to apply to the court to set aside an award on the ground of misconduct by the arbitrator : misconduct sometimes amounts to what appear to be no more than minor procedural solecisms . |
| 9 | Moreover , for such a minister , the ideal is not a department without a policy or officials without positive ideas as to what needs to be done . |
| 10 | Well I think Simon for doing it is a really excellent way of doing it , it states the source of items , suggestions or quiffs , and makes a proposal erm , which we can debate agreed , and then it 's for clear instructions to what needs to be changed on the procedure . |
| 11 | Also attached to this box were the vacuum gauge and a third pipe which led to what appeared to be a servo for the brake ( ? ! ) . |
| 12 | Ahead was a short marble staircase , leading to what appeared to be a lecture-room on the next floor . |
| 13 | Banks , Harris and Sinclair were probably elected because of their trade-union connections , but precisely because of these existing responsibilities , the first two could not devote much time and effort to what appeared to be a marginal group making little impact . |
| 14 | Bloxham had always been fascinated by regression to what appeared to be past lives , and he would experiment with those of his patients who proved to be excellent subjects for hypnosis ( with their full permission and co-operation , of course ) , recording the outcome of these experiments . |
| 15 | We could find no cause for this when I regressed him to an earlier period in this life and so I went on to regress him to what appeared to be a previous life . |
| 16 | When they reached the approach to what appeared to be a long deep cutting , Mary stopped . |
| 17 | ‘ You lied to me , ’ she said , her voice laced with accusation as she walked through to what appeared to be a workshop . |
| 18 | Brucie should have asked his old mucker why he had apparently given up his comedy career to become a fulltime golfer , but he seemed more interested in sticking to what appeared to be a well-prepared script . |
| 19 | Brucie should have asked his old mucker why he had apparently given up his comedy career to become a full-time golfer , but he seemed more interested in sticking to what appeared to be a well-prepared script . |
| 20 | Brucie should have asked his old mucker why he had apparently given up his comedy career to become a full-time golfer , but he seemed more interested in sticking to what appeared to be a well-prepared script . |
| 21 | i Once it became obvious that youth organizations could not solve the ‘ boy labour problem ’ , either socially or economically , the question arose as to what needed to be done . |
| 22 | What they 're able to do with that money this year and in that way we can make a reasonable assessment as to what has to be done next year and the years after and budget all , but we 're talking about how they 're going to spend the money that we 've just earlier on voted for , for us so that we can see what is being done and also that the public can see because after all this all came up , the report to the ombudsman and the public will not be satisfied about our performance on that . |
| 23 | ‘ What the counsellor does is to concentrate on how the client feels about the incidents or facts he is reporting rather than on the facts themselves , and then to respond to what appears to be the most significant part of each complex sequence … |
| 24 | Why should Andropulos be an exception to what appears to be a fairly well established rule ? ’ |
| 25 | On the first occasion , I remembered , I had found a highly personable stray kitten and before the week was up had delivered it to what promised to be a good new home adjacent to that jokey castle . |
| 26 | It was an unhappy start to what proved to be a contentious relationship , with Lugard wanting to turn the clock back to the days of his undisputed pre-eminence , and Temple , whose sense of his own consequence was equally developed , treating him as primus ( barely ) inter pares . |
| 27 | Caught off guard , in a mellow mood , away-from the pressures that the stance has been developed to shield them from , they too will admit to being disappointed and confused , not as hard-bitten as they make out , and as having found only a very inadequate solution to what seems to be an insoluble problem : how to do a good enough job . |
| 28 | A major concern will be a cultural set attached to what seems to be a disappearing base , at least if the logic of capital is allowed to determine the course of events . |
| 29 | The authors draw attention to what seems to be a large regional variation between rates of surgical treatment for glue ear . |
| 30 | Particularly if the year intended in the lists is indeed 833 — these actual death dates may be an indication that this entry should , however , be dated a year earlier , i.e. 832 -but in any case in view of the general chronological uncertainty , Rajab 834 appears to fall within an allowable margin of error ; and one would therefore be reluctant to dismiss the circumstantial account of a contemporary biographical source in favour of a too-strict adherence to what seems to be the slightly uncertain evidence of the chronological lists . |