Example sentences of "to be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The waters to pay particular attention to are the ones which have produced bream in the past , even big bags of medium-sized fish , but have produced nothing like it in recent years . |
| 2 | Notice that although this reads as ‘ sliding the lace carriage for ten rows ’ , this is a brief way of saying ‘ move the lace carriage to the right and back , knit two rows , repeat from to five times ’ , the rows referred to are the knit rows , since the movement of the lace carriage never constitutes a row . |
| 3 | The people in prison are the only people you have — whatever problems you 've got , you know the only people you can talk to are the women in prison . |
| 4 | We also recognise so to are the workers of County Councils , and District Councils , particularly because the er the government initiatives , one good point to V A T on fuel , and the increasing in in National Insurance Contributions and increases in taxation , so between the two sides has got to be some accommodation , bearing in mind the need for both of us to want to continue to deliver quality services . |
| 5 | I do think it 's a difficult one , but I do feel there is a limit to the number , and therefore we should be careful that the ones we agree to are the ones that interest local people . |
| 6 | The classical pneumocystis pneumonia used to be the final event in the disease process in almost half ( 46% ) of those with AIDS in 1986 . |
| 7 | In 1986 , the classical pneumocystis pneumonia used to be the final event in the disease process in almost half ( 46% ) of AIDS related deaths . |
| 8 | In practical terms this means that although letter-writing to governments regarding prisoners continues to be the cornerstone of the campaign work other methods have been introduced to enhance the effectiveness of the hundreds of thousands of letters that Amnesty members write each year . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , increased use of the death penalty appears to be the most popular solution . |
| 10 | Even if historians are specifically interested in form , it is likely to be the history of forms , or the development of styles which will have attracted their attention . |
| 11 | He specialised in collecting the work of four artists he considered to be the true Cubists , Picasso , Braque , Leger and Gris . |
| 12 | A nut-brown man by South Kensington standards , he is light-skinned in the West Indies : he is a Chinese Negro , who thinks of himself as a hakwai Chinee — hakwai , he explains , being ‘ Chinese for nigger ’ — and who has not failed to notice that Emily Brontë 's Heathcliff is rumoured to be the Emperor of China . |
| 13 | Fraser was to be the author of Blood of Spain , an oral history of the Civil War . |
| 14 | Glasser was to be the author of a study of a Calabrian village , and the Spanish war bears a bleak meaning in the story he tells here . |
| 15 | Hora e sempre — this motto is inscribed on the front of Hawksmoor 's , the real Hawksmoor 's , Classical house at Easton Neston in Northamptonshire : Easton Neston has been reputed or imagined to be the original of Mansfield Park , which may be described as a house imagined by an opponent of the Gothic novel . |
| 16 | Poor Charles brings him to life again , however , for some further plagiarisms : a nest of antique-dealers , of antic disposition , in Chatterton 's native Bristol , have passed to Charles a cache of papers which , together with the discovery of what seems to be the portrait of an adult Chatterton , persuades him that the poet lived on . |
| 17 | All knowledge of life and lives , and indeed of history , is a good in itself , and seems likely to inform literary intelligence ; and in addition Amis 's novels would rather confuse if thought to be the work of an early Tudor writer . |
| 18 | I cherished the ambition to be the first ( perhaps the only ) Italian writer to describe the Yiddish world . |
| 19 | Patrick held both hands up in a gesture of peace , he smiled for a moment ; I 'm no trying to get at you personally but I just fucking feel that you cant expect the teacher to be the everything , the heavyweight boxing champion of the world . |
| 20 | Well it 's meant to be the fucking opposite and it is the fucking opposite . |
| 21 | It 's worthwhile reading some pre-Shakespearean drama ; you could read Everyman , a great morality play of the late Middle Ages , and Gammer Gurton 's Needle , first performed in 1566 and thought to be the second oldest English comedy . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A S. I remember when I was working as a dogsbody in the 59 Theatre Company in Manchester a group of Central School students came to be the spirits in a production of The Tempest and these were Pisk trained and had , it seemed to me then , a marvellous range of body language . |
| 24 | This was seen to be the democratic process at work . |
| 25 | But at the same time , an enormous sense of responsibility to protect the church , the family , and the minds and hearts of the faithful from incursions by the state was perceived to be the basic duty of the church leaders . |
| 26 | The cause in both cases appears to be the strength of catholic — nationalist and protestant — loyalist popular consciousness and the way in which the cultural and material interests of the subordinate classes appear to be represented by the alliances themselves and their institutions . |
| 27 | If I were told to-morrow , ‘ You can have a united Ireland if you give up your idea of restoring the national language to be the spoken language of the majority of the people ’ , I would , for myself , say no . |
| 28 | This appears to be the first contradiction which the bishops later sought to resolve by withdrawing from the direct contact method . |
| 29 | It announced that , if doctrine as opposed to Bible stories was to be a part of school education , then such religious education could not adopt a common denominator approach between the churches , but had to be total in its presentation of what the Roman catholic church considered to be the truth , otherwise such an approach would be ‘ dangerous ’ for the children ( Gaine 1968 : 164 ) . |
| 30 | There seemed to be the fairly uncomplicated desire among the community to see all the children attend the same school , as an expression of relationships existing within the community . |