Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to be the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Today the potato is rightfully acknowledged to be the most important vegetable we eat . |
| 32 | Occasionally , we heard rocket fire and guessed , from the heavy propaganda on both the Christian television stations , that it was between Geagea 's Lebanese Forces militia and the army of General Aoun , who was still apparently claiming to be the true President of Lebanon . |
| 33 | [ On p. 36810 the latter 's daughter María Julia Alsogaray , the administrator of the state telecommunications company Entel , is wrongly stated to be the UCD leader . ] |
| 34 | That is to say , the effects of activating two components together have to be the sum of the effects of activating either in isolation . |
| 35 | Today the Vatican rightly claims to be the country with the world 's lowest birthrate ; since most of its permanent residents are Roman Catholic clergy and nuns , the chances of a baby appearing in their midst are slim by anyone 's reckoning . |
| 36 | Hull justly claims to be the birthplace of the Civil War . |
| 37 | Long held to be the leading contemporary poet of Wales , the ideas that have occupied Thomas 's attention throughout his writing career of some forty-six years are represented by fourteen essays chosen by Sandra Anstey . |
| 38 | Suddenly running the club successfully seemed to be the most important thing in her life . |
| 39 | And he loved to be the centre of attention — just as he will desperately want to be the star attraction at Wembley tonight . |
| 40 | Kantor 's method for identifying causes of unavailability is generally recognized to be the most accurate , and has been refined to demonstrate linear relationships between various non-availability categories . |
| 41 | When he was asked why he himself did not become one , he replied that all men wanted to be Senators but he did not ; he did not want to be the same as other men who were as the uncoloured cloth of the Toga but he wished to be the red , that small and brilliant portion which causes the rest to be comely and beautiful . |
| 42 | What we had n't bargained for was that she might not want to be the next Franz Klammer . |
| 43 | We did not want to be the cause of friction ; but as we were unable to ascertain what the Club had in mind by way of arrangements , we proposed tea or dinner , or , if he were not being entertained in the evening , both . |
| 44 | Core skills are not intended to be the subject of academic studies , although they may relate to academic subjects such as English , mathematics , computing , science and social studies . |
| 45 | He was excellently placed to be the next Poet Laureate when the position fell vacant in ninety-six . |
| 46 | Well there 's a few children around but erm they generally tend to be the older ones . |
| 47 | On all of these 29 weekly flights , passengers will be able to enjoy Varig 's warm hospitality and excellent inflight service , which Europeans have already voted to be the best for travelling to South America . |
| 48 | Most drama training works on the assumption that there is something called ‘ standard English ’ , which is generally considered to be the ‘ straight ’ delivery of words without affectation or regional variation . |
| 49 | Phylloxera is generally considered to be the greatest disaster in French viticultural history , but in some respects it has also been a blessing . |
| 50 | There was a time in advertising when the writer was generally considered to be the senior partner of the creative team of writer and art director . |
| 51 | Whether or not he would eventually have become chief executive is academic : the move to Provincial seems to have met a need to apply what is generally considered to be the sharp mind and highly effective set of skills of this simultaneously affable and well-organised character to a more absorbing challenge . |
| 52 | Speculation that Oh , generally considered to be the most powerful man in North Korea aside from Kim Il Sung and his son , might have died or been demoted was dampened by his inclusion as a Vice-chairman of the National Defence Commission . |
| 53 | Their room for manoeuvre , however , was judged to be limited because the budget was generally considered to be the product of the constraints which the Democrat-dominated Congress had imposed in October 1990 on domestic and defence expenditure [ see p. 37768 ] . |
| 54 | On May 19 Shin Kanemaru , leader of what was still generally considered to be the Takeshita faction in the LDP , announced that his grouping would field a candidate for the LDP leadership election in October . |
| 55 | The Leninist theory of capitalist expansionism is generally considered to be the orthodox Marxist position . |
| 56 | The transfer of goodwill is generally considered to be the single most important factor ( see Luckey v Hockley [ 1966 ] 2 KIR 17 ; Douglas v Merchants Facilities ( Glasgow ) Ltd [ 1966 ] 1 ITR 374 ; Seymour v Barber and Heron [ 1970 ] 5 ITR 65 ; Bonser v Patara [ 1967 ] 2 ITR 76 ) , but not an overriding one , in support of the transfer as a going concern . |
| 57 | Although desiccation is generally considered to be the most lethal influence in larval survival , there is increasing evidence that by entering a state of anhydrobiosis , certain larvae can survive severe desiccation . |
| 58 | But because these books are written with a greater apparent degree of realism , the murder does not need to be the attention-grabbing , bizarre affair of the blueprint book . |
| 59 | The advantage of using the OSCLI command is that you can use a variable for the file name and the command does not need to be the last ( or only ) one on a line . |
| 60 | The symptoms and signs are not considered to be the illness but rather to be the results of the body 's reaction to the original state of imbalance . |