Example sentences of "to [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both agreed that there would seem to be no rational explanation , but everything pointed to the fact that Aubrey Clark was revisiting his old signal box . |
| 2 | There were to be no mechanical or electrical improvements . |
| 3 | Police said yesterday there appeared to be no sectarian motive for the killing . |
| 4 | The pygmies of Central Africa can not find enough food in the Zaire forests and , indeed , there seems to be no unambiguous ethnographic account of any people living solely off forest products and the only tropical areas where it is believed that such people might have lived are in central Malesia . |
| 5 | There was to be no all-powerful central state apparatus , and political leaders were to be given no blank cheques ; on the contrary , they were to be hedged in by a complex , decentralized and fragmented system designed to prevent any one leader or group of leaders from becoming excessively powerful . |
| 6 | Me : ‘ I told you there were to be no bug-eyed monsters in Doctor Who . ’ |
| 7 | But our crowded islands were as vulnerable as Japan 's had been to atomic attack , and there appeared to be no sure defence against it . |
| 8 | There seemed to be no real point in arguing with her . |
| 9 | Although it is a close-run thing arithmetically , there seems to be no real basis for this charge of bastardy . |
| 10 | Thirdly , I shall look at those Christian feminists who believe there to be no real gap , so that the problem is thereby solved . |
| 11 | If you charter from Corsica — where there seemed to be no real shortage — take as much extra as you can manage . |
| 12 | There was to be no real rapport — with Peter Cook allegedly burning the first Oz in a Soho pub — until the Oz trial five years later . |
| 13 | And yet for most people there seems to be no real alternative — and they expect none . |
| 14 | It was far enough away to be no real danger , but it certainly stopped me going any further and was probably a timely warning ! |
| 15 | There seems to be no real bite in exchanges between the parties . |
| 16 | There appear to be no major new competitive developments being planned . |
| 17 | There were to be no male heirs for Thomas — indeed , he was to father only one robust child who would survive into old age , as we shall see shortly . |
| 18 | It was to be no insular backslapping occasion where favourite cars were chosen by the magazine 's staff , but a hard-headed look at the industry with independent judges outnumbering Autocar & Motor people by three to one . |
| 19 | In words aimed at the US president , Bill Clinton , he said : ‘ The Balkanisation of the region is coming if there is to be no peaceful settlement . |
| 20 | There was to be no stunned silence , no aghast staring and , it seemed , no dramatic response from Greg . |
| 21 | In 1941 he stood as an independent candidate in four by-elections ; but although he retained his deposit on each occasion , there was to be no political comeback for this highly cantankerous patriot . |
| 22 | Surely all political parties would do well to agree that there is to be no political vacuum in Northern Ireland and that we are determined to fight for peace as the future of Northern Ireland . |
| 23 | There seems to be no absolute reality in the world of physical forms where every creature sees things differently . |
| 24 | First , there appears to be no absolute right to such representation . |
| 25 | With the advent of Lloyd George , who as President of the Board proved to be no mean performer at the art of conciliation , the policy of promoting " permanent machinery " , industry by industry , for the settlement of disputes began to move into top gear , if only for the reason that no alternative policy seemed to be available . |
| 26 | It is quite another matter to be told what taxes to pay and how much unemployment is to be suffered and then as an afterthought to be informed that there is to be no democratic redress . |
| 27 | Team A — a group of students and a civil servant — probably came closest although , as in all things , there appears to be no correct answer , just a selection of possibilities . |
| 28 | There seemed to be no dark corners left , no little cupboards and half-hidden shelves through which a boy could hunt for evidence of his lost mother . |
| 29 | Though there appears at present to be no early evidence in regard to the allowance of the kadi of Istanbul , a statement in a seventeenth-century source , the by Husayn Hezarfenn ( Hezarfen : d. 1103/1691–2 ) , would seem to indicate that the kadilik of Istanbul was similarly a 300-akce kadilik . |
| 30 | At any rate Picasso seems to have realized , even before he began it , that it was to be no ordinary painting . |