Example sentences of "to be an " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to be an ACET volunteer so what do I do now ? |
| 2 | To do this , we would like to recruit people who are willing to be an ACET-link in their church . |
| 3 | ‘ If there is to be an effective Christian response to AIDS we need to support organisations like ACET who are in the front line giving practical care and support . ’ |
| 4 | However , we are able to enter the 1991/92 financial year with a firm financial base , a strong management team and a greater than ever determination to be an effective caring Christian response to this global epidemic wherever it is most needed . |
| 5 | shape a figure or a head from the scrutiny of the model who sat before him , was felt to be an ‘ impossible ’ assault on an objective guaranteed to elude his grasp … |
| 6 | In a different sort of context , what appears to be an abstract design , devoid of reference to the natural world , may in fact be a stylisation of a person , an animal or an imagined figure . |
| 7 | Imposture is shown in Ackroyd 's novel , in this burlesque of the literary life , to be an interesting business , but it is unlikely to cause Chatterton 's reputation to inch back towards what it was in the retrospects of the Romantic period . |
| 8 | By these standards , Levi would appear to be an imperfect Jew , and this could well be an opinion that underlies the talk about his later books being not nearly as good as his earlier ones . |
| 9 | So you want to be an Actor ? |
| 10 | Rosalind , disguised as a young man ( Ganymede ) speaks to Phoebe , who clearly considers her to be an attractive male . |
| 11 | Had you always wanted to be an actor ? |
| 12 | Did you always want to be an actor ? |
| 13 | I still do n't feel it 's necessary to wear scruffy clothes to be an actor . |
| 14 | How did you come to be an actor ? |
| 15 | Well , I was always going to be an artist and it was always assumed that I would leave South Africa and go to somewhere like Italy and study at an art school . |
| 16 | There was to be an expression of a certain solidarity between members of both the catholic and protestant working classes in the Belfast demonstration of 1932 against the inadequate poor relief during the period of particularly high unemployment . |
| 17 | Many critics , including William Binchy , saw this as likely to be an ineffectual provision and subject to the whims of judges . |
| 18 | The fact that a prominent member of the current community council and an integrated education supporter was a member of official Sinn Fein , the Workers ' party , appeared to figure in the reasoning , as this party has always been suspected to be an anti-clerical and secularist force . |
| 19 | What is required , he wrote , is to find an outlet for those energies , for those needs and desires , so that they do not turn inward and rend you to pieces , an outlet , he wrote , but never to imagine that what we do is ever going to be an everlasting achievement . |
| 20 | And film seems to be an art ’ . |
| 21 | I used to be an art historian . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ There just does n't seem to be an end to it , ’ she said . |
| 23 | I 'm supposed to be an usher — or an usherette in my case , I suppose . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I used to be an art historian , ’ I said . |
| 25 | He dismissed this as irrelevant and his use of metaphor , in what turned out to be an eighty-minute interview , was most revealing . |
| 26 | As we saw in the chapter dealing with rules , it is not enough for your punch to be an effective scoring technique ; it must be seen to be so , and this entails making its success obvious . |
| 27 | A world that was , per impossibile , purely particular , in the sense of not allowing forms or universals to be an essential component or determinant of it , would have nothing which intellect could grasp . |
| 28 | As she walked from the post office empty handed , she pretended to be an American tourist , one who could leave in a few days , one for whom the trip would soon be nothing more than a few travel stories and postcards . |
| 29 | The 1990 winners , Credit Suisse First Boston ( Men ) and Bank of England ( Ladies ) , both seeded one this year , are joined by new entrants , Sainsburys and Midland Bank , in what is proving to be an even keener contest than last year . |
| 30 | I found the Woodcarver to be an ideal tool for fast removal of waste as well as useful , with care , as a modelling tool . |