Example sentences of "they [verb] to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New Right economists such as Lees , Friedman and Selsdon have argued that the model , with appropriate modifications , is applicable to health care , which they deem to be a consumption rather than an investment good ( the opposite view to that of Beveridge and the Fabian Socialists ) . |
| 2 | Do they want to be the centre of attention ? |
| 3 | By ‘ blimpish ’ The Times presumably means that the directors it so describes show an obstinate and blinkered lack of concern for the national economic interest , and persist in pursuing what they judge to be the more immediate interests of the companies they direct . |
| 4 | These are n't er er er they tend to be a bit ignored in history , these . |
| 5 | I have painted male models before but they tend to be a lot more angular . |
| 6 | ‘ The characters are like someone you would meet in the street , although they tend to be a bit more romantic . |
| 7 | They tend to they tend to be a bit noisier than the others , but actually they are very constructive , and on Banbury School Governors it 's not the political appointees that erm I 've seen as a problem particularly . |
| 8 | They tend to be the first victims of clean-sweep company shake-ups and takeovers . |
| 9 | Jesus ' attitudes and teaching are moreover central to the biblical witness : they tend to be the reference point to which Christians turn . |
| 10 | There are mothers and daughters who can talk freely about sex , and mothers who send or accompany their daughter to the doctor to get the Pill , as Tracy 's mother had , but they tend to be the exception . |
| 11 | They tend to be the kind of book you dip into when you need a particular fact . |
| 12 | Many firms offer training two years in advance but they tend to be the larger organisations and if you wish to work for a smaller firm or , for example , a local authority , you often need to apply nearer the time . |
| 13 | They tend to be the larger companies , I have to be fair , er , but er , one of the encouraging things from my point of view , and I , we started rather early , maybe fifteen , twenty years ago has been to see the growth of this particular sector , where people have moved progressively into , I think a much more enlightened posture in the last ten or fifteen years , and B I C , Business in the Community of course , have to take , I think much credit for that . |
| 14 | This should not surprise you , for it happens also to be the case that they tend to be an exceptionally well-qualified crowd . |
| 15 | Human beings do not respond to what is there ( or what is real ) but to their filtered version of what is there , that is , what they perceive to be the case . |
| 16 | States do this in what they perceive to be the general community interest and , perhaps , to encourage the State most directly affected to accept the treaty regime . |
| 17 | Marion , who has worked at the Tour for the past two years and recently took over as Membership Secretary , says : ‘ We are pleased that so many girls want to join our Tour , but we are also anxious to ensure that they have thought through all the consequences and they are sure that they want to be a professional . |
| 18 | They want to be the court of principle and last resort for British press standards . |
| 19 | They want to be the court of principle and last resort for British press standards . |
| 20 | ‘ I think a lot of supporters look for that because they all want to be leaders themselves — they want to be the boss , they do n't want to be the tea-boy . ’ |
| 21 | I do n't care if they go out with a different girl every day of the week as well as me , but suddenly they want to be the one and only . ’ |
| 22 | Although the House of Commons has always contained some MPs who take an informed interest in the subject , they are in a small minority , irrespective of Party allegiance , being heavily outnumbered by those who are guided more by what they sense to be the prevailing expectations of the public . |
| 23 | Many flowers appear to bees to be ultraviolet-coloured even though to us they appear to be a quite different colour . |
| 24 | They appear to be no different from the " shapes , the voices that throng the mind " . |
| 25 | Afterwards they appear to be the best of friends again . |
| 26 | Although parrots have been treated as seed predators , they are not always so , for they appear to be the principal dispersal agents of seeds of several species of Parkia ( Leguminosae ) in the Neotropics as , well as certain Lecythidaceae there , even though they are partly destructive . |
| 27 | After all , they appear to be the only pure enthusiasts left in the sport . |
| 28 | They lived with the shepherds and survived chiefly on mutton cooked with wild herbs , spignel meu they found to be a good substitute for rosemary and the child loved to eat the aniseed-flavoured seedheads . |
| 29 | They were not , however , impressed by what they found to be the ‘ superfluous materialism ’ of the Federal Republic which they said was ‘ rather stupid ’ . |
| 30 | They pretended to be the crew of Dr Xavier Maniguet , who was playing the part of a rich playboy who had chartered the vessel from a French travel agency for a winter cruise in the Pacific . |