Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Hull justly claims to be the birthplace of the Civil War . |
| 3 | Suddenly running the club successfully seemed to be the most important thing in her life . |
| 4 | ‘ Mani manent cum nostris semper in aeternum , Primarche ! ’ the Reclusiarch chanted in the hieratic religious tongue , which his listeners only comprehended to be a blend of sacred plainsong and occult invocation . |
| 5 | The auto industry just happened to be a convenient sector in which to show his determination to change ( Doner , 1987 ; Oman , 1989 : pp. 164–166 ) . |
| 6 | Earthworms are the main item in a badger 's diet and cow grazing pastures just happen to be a good source of earthworms . |
| 7 | Liza 's car always appeared to be the one which had preferential treatment and although John Carrow , neither approving of nor trusting any lady to tinker about with a machine , begged them all to leave such things as cleaning carburettors to him , it was always Liza 's that got attended to first . |
| 8 | The effect in Britain was a sizeable reduction in arable areas of production , and the agricultural industry gradually ceased to be the employer of the most workers . |
| 9 | Consequently , some first performances also prove to be the last . |
| 10 | The result also appears to be a vindication of his gamble to delay the election until almost the last moment in the hope that signs of economic recovery would persuade voters to give him a mandate . |
| 11 | These books typically claimed to be the distillation of wisdom handed down from Arab sages through the centuries , and they all drew heavily on Artemidorus 's work . |
| 12 | ( Labour now claims to be the champion of ‘ modern manufacturing strength ’ . ) |
| 13 | Indeed Goldsmith and Newton ( 1986 , p. 104 ) argue that there is a sense in which ‘ the phrase central-local government relations is a misnomer ; what the term really refers to is a set of London-based relations between central government and the national local government community . |
| 14 | In the absence of environmental signals there has to be the unequal distribution of some factor at cell division so that the cells behave differently from one another . |
| 15 | The source of objective legal rules thus appears to be the fully developed rationality of the intellectual elites of different nations . |
| 16 | Very often , these mutually unintelligible and exclusive ethnic cultures just happen to be the same as the groups which common sense tells us are ‘ races ’ . |
| 17 | Why do all plasterboards secretly want to be a FERMACELL gypsum-fibreboard ? |
| 18 | The new Eve momentarily wants to be a tragedy queen ; for a few flickering instants , she wants to be like almost ali the characters in literature whom we find most beguiling — Cleopatra , Anna Karenin , Madame Bovary , Eve herself in Paradise Lost — a figure who has risked everything for the sake of une grande passion . |
| 19 | ‘ A sport just has to be a bit flexible . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Willy Thorne , for example took part in a ProAm game at Alsager and insisted that one of the three charities who were to receive donations just had to be the Rainbow Trust and that meant £1,400 cheque . |
| 21 | Among the controversial issues which any negotiations would have to address were the following [ see also p. 36837 for so-called " Harare declaration " on ANC proposals for future negotiations , and p. 36912 for earlier policy guidelines ] : ( i ) nationalization : in press interviews in the days following his release , Mandela had reasserted the ANC 's stated policy of nationalizing certain sectors of the economy , including mines — this immediately provoked sharp falls on South African financial markets [ see also p. 37176 ] ; ( ii ) the armed struggle : Mandela had refused to renounce this policy , repeating on Feb. 14 that government installations were legitimate targets for sabotage [ ibid. ] ; ( iii ) power-sharing : the government and the ANC still appeared to be a long way apart on interpretation — the ANC for its part was not prepared to accept an arrangement similar to the current tri-cameral parliament ; ( iv ) sanctions : Mandela had already stated that " the conditions for which sanctions are being applied still exist " and thus there was no need for a review of the question [ for UK Prime Minister 's unilateral decision to break EC agreement on voluntary sanctions see below ] . |
| 22 | Gorer , in his 1970 study of sex in England carried out on behalf of the Opinion Research Centre remarks that , " England still appears to be a very chaste society " . |
| 23 | February always seems to be the busiest month for me . |
| 24 | Although attitudes are changing , the V6 engine configuration still seems to be the one ideally suited to the needs of a big executive car like the Safrane . |
| 25 | Personal appearances always seemed to be a bone of contention . |
| 26 | The sport still claims to be the fastest-growing in Britain … and enthusiasts came from all corners of the country for the grand finale of the National Mountain Bike Championships — the quest to find the British champion . |
| 27 | The sport still claims to be the fastest-growing in Britain … and enthusiasts came from all corners of the country for the grand finale of the National Mountain Bike Championships — the quest to find the British champion . |
| 28 | Such areas also tend to be the cheapest to get into . |
| 29 | Other information provided on the provision and maintenance of travellers ' sites also proved to be a damning indictment of official neglect and racism . |
| 30 | The mountains also prove to be a tourist attraction as some of the mountains experience alpine conditions which leads to ski resorts . |