Example sentences of "to [be] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ( iv ) In many sections , Nietzsche 's points are not presented in what one might take to be their natural order . |
| 32 | Apparently , not everyone agreed , or perhaps did not get what they considered to be their fair share , for eventually the Backless baron was transported to Australia , no doubt to become another ‘ Wild Colonial Boy ’ . |
| 33 | All NATO members now broadly accept that the alliance will continue to be their main defence against a threat to Western Europe ; that its integrated military command will still control any military operations there ; and that its commander will continue to be an American . |
| 34 | Although many lone parents work , Table 4 shows that earnings from employment are less likely to be their main source of income than they are for two parent families although for both groups this will be affected by fluctuations in employment and unemployment . |
| 35 | One of its most notable starts took place this week , when the Americans selected the sleek and curvy YF-22 to be their next-generation air-combat fighter . |
| 36 | Finally , at a time when the demand for public accountability has never been greater , it is worth remembering that many museums receive substantial grants towards what is supposed to be their educational provision for the general public . |
| 37 | Puritans also believed it to be their pressing duty to agitate for the introduction of godly reforms into the church . |
| 38 | The following were recently noted to be its complete contents |
| 39 | The tide turned against the Labour government in its marginal defeat in 1951 because of what was seen to be its still strong commitment to state regulation and control and because of the new-found attractiveness of the free-market ideology offered by the Conservatives . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | As the Second World War entered what was to be its final phase , Franco therefore stepped up his efforts to court Allied favour . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | The struggle to determine the party 's attitude to the aspirations of Labour was to be its chief battleground for the next six years . |
| 47 | In some languages , such as Turkish , this seems to be its only function . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | 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 … |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | It has served its country dutifully for over 30 years and we are delighted to be its new custodians . ’ |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | The next is almost certain to be its fellow Baltic republic of Estonia , whose Communist Party is determined to follow suit , according to its ideology secretary , Mr Mikk Titma . |
| 59 | Sainsbury won much publicity when it appointed former Friends of the Earth director Jonathan Porritt to be its environmental policy adviser . |
| 60 | But even where it was extended from churches to houses , a spiritual asceticism seems to be its distinguishing characteristic . |