Example sentences of "[be] [verb] to [be] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes they demonstrably were not ; for example , portraits of the Emperor Augustus struck at the end of his reign , when he was seventy-six , do not depict a man of that age and do not correspond with the unflattering description given by his biographer , Suetonius. portraits such as this are intended to be the embodiment of a political ideal rather than a realistic likeness ( though in some cases , such as that of Nero , they might be both ) . |
| 2 | Digital Equipment Corp yesterday unveiled the DECpc MTE line of two 80486-based personal computers , starting at $2,650 and $3,100 : they include a 32-bit EISA bus and VESA VL bus and are claimed to be the highest-performance 80486 machines available ; they are Pentium-upgradable and offers a PCMCIA peripheral card option for data sharing with portable computers having PCMCIA . |
| 3 | They never get a day off , nobody thinks of letting them go off on a training course , they never get the chance to keep up and yet they are expected to be the fount of all knowledge . |
| 4 | The mainframe business and the chip business are expected to be the focus of the cuts , with further plant closures and property disposals thought likely . |
| 5 | Main users of AlphaWindows terminals are expected to be the mid-ranking clerical and administration staff of organisations who have several tasks they need to perform using different applications . |
| 6 | Such has been reported to be the case by some authors ( Subirana , 1969 ; Luria , 1970 ) but not by others ( Russell and Espir , 1961 ; Newcombe and Ratcliff , 1973 ) . |
| 7 | Such increases in tannin in browsed Acacia nigrescens in southern Africa have been reported to take place in a few minutes and the production of ethylene during damage has been considered to be the promoter of tannin increase . |
| 8 | Will 's best movements are considered to be the passage and canter pirouette , and his worst to be flying changes . |
| 9 | Royal women , too , even though quite ordinary in appearance , may be elevated in public opinion until they are considered to be the utmost in charm and elegance — again difficult to live up to , when they are continually ‘ on show ’ . |
| 10 | These are the barn owl , long-eared owl , and all the Eagle owls , and these deficits are considered to be the result of sampling error . |
| 11 | Though CSE grade 1 had been deemed to be the equivalent of a good O level pass , this had not really brought the two into line : the equivalence was granted as a concession to the increasingly academic ambitions of the secondary modern schools , and , later , as a consolation to those pupils in comprehensive schools who thought they had been wrongly ‘ deselected ’ away from O levels . |
| 12 | That source-study has been so common is at least partly due to the fact that the interpretation of the writings of the mystics has , from the start , been felt to be the preserve of theologians . |
| 13 | More generally , however , this tort has been said to be the genus of which the other unlawful means torts ( intimidation and interference with contract and conspiracy where unlawful means are involved ) are species . |
| 14 | The social cost of these processes , added to by government policies , has been said to be the end of ‘ consensus politics ’ and a turning away from the notion that the social hierarchy can be perceived to be legitimate . |
| 15 | Such mobility may carry the stigma of personal failure or a defective personality that are said to be the result of ‘ soiling one 's curriculum vitae' ( Nakane 1973 p.111 ) . |
| 16 | It is a very simple denial of deafness and corrupts the most fundamental aspect of scientific investigation : the elements which are the outcome are said to be the cause . |
| 17 | The self-regulation of the profession and the high standards demanded of its members are said to be the justification for the monopolies enjoyed by those engaging in the activity and by the restrictive practices permitted . |
| 18 | ‘ Protective factors ’ are said to be the explanation . |
| 19 | So they 're going to be the conscience and the parenting for that year group and I also suggested that at that time , I think what Rob 's doing is getting the children to look at themselves er , as regards what their strengths and weaknesses are and the P S D have got to clarify that . |
| 20 | " I 'm sure you 're going to be the belle of the Saigon ball tonight . " |
| 21 | This dose of oestrogen has previously been shown to be the minimum required to prevent bone loss in normal menopausal women . |
| 22 | These solutes are thought to be the origin of cements within the subsurface , either as quartz overgrowth cements ( e.g. Sibley & blatt , 1976 ) or as calcite cements . |
| 23 | They are thought to be the Devil 's companions and to tempt men to death or illness by offering them bewitched foods . |
| 24 | For , as Giles Playfair rightly pointed out , when children under 16 are thought to be the victim of indecent assault , they would not , as could homosexuals under these proposals , be also treated as the culprits . |
| 25 | You do n't have to believe in God in order to practise astronomy or to understand how the movement of the planets is regulated , as might have been thought to be the case before Isaac Newton 's time . |
| 26 | Yours will most probably be the arms she needs at this point , and the best thing you can do for her is to show that you share her grief , and that as far as possible you are going to be the rock on which she can lean while the sands of her life are shifting so frighteningly beneath her feet . |
| 27 | ‘ You are going to be the star of the Season . ’ |
| 28 | This of course was also a severe blow to the emerging Labour Party and again the politicians had to try to restore what had been understood to be the position by passing the Trade Union Act 1913 . |
| 29 | They think that , because of the kind of thing individual human beings are , they are bound to be the basis of social explanation . |
| 30 | If the trustees are found to be the settlor 's nominees the settlor will be the person assessed on the trading or other income ( Dreyfus v IRC ( 1963 ) 41 TC 441 ) although the Inland Revenue will usually find it difficult to establish nomineeship if this was not intended by the parties ( Burman v Hedges and Butler Ltd [ 1979 ] STC 136 ) . |