Example sentences of "to be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this reason , among others , we must reject A. W. Schlegel 's interpretation of the chorus as the " ideal spectator " there being originally no spectacle for it to be spectator of . |
| 2 | There needs to be accountability injected into the government structures to take into account and actively implement local opinion . |
| 3 | In the public sector there has to be accountability to the public or the client . |
| 4 | My brew for this breeding attempt was to be tap water , rain water and tap water filtered through peat in equal measures , which gave me readings of 6pH and 2DH |
| 5 | ‘ They wo n't do it — they all want to be air hostesses these days . ’ |
| 6 | between my arm and what seemed to be air — |
| 7 | Societies appear to be subject every now and then to periods of moral panic . |
| 8 | One answer to this question might utilize an optical theory of the telescope that explains its magnifying properties and that also gives an account of the various aberrations to which we can expect telescopic images to be subject . |
| 9 | It depends on what warranties are to be subject in the limitation . |
| 10 | 19 ( 1 ) In all leases whether made before or after the commencement of this Act containing a covenant condition or agreement against assigning , under- letting , charging or party with the possession of a demised premises or any part thereof without licence or consent , such covenant condition or agreement shall , notwithstanding any express provision to the contrary , be deemed to be subject — ( a ) to a proviso to the effect that such licence or consent is not to be unreasonably withheld , but this proviso does not preclude the right of the landlord to require payment of a reasonable sum in respect of any legal or other expenses incurred in connection with such licence or consent ; … |
| 11 | By the time of the camera rehearsals at Lime Grove on Friday morning , the day of recording , everyone was expected to be word perfect , with the equivalent of a twenty-five minute play committed firmly to memory . |
| 12 | Internal documents tend to be word processed , they look as though they have been typed , whereas brochures and price lists would generally be professionally produced using typeset material . |
| 13 | And it had to be word perfect ! ’ |
| 14 | Just supposed to be word for word but it 's a bit of a erm Right , filling in booklet 's a er a bit of a pain . |
| 15 | Have you just got to sort of like the , these open to interpretation , or has it got to be word for word ? |
| 16 | Her administrations were headed first by the " duumvirs " , Godolphin and Marlborough , and from 1710 by Robert Harley ( soon to be Earl of Oxford ) , none of whom were conventional party men ( although Harley , a former Whig , can essentially be regarded as a Tory by Anne 's reign ) , and her governments often contained men from both sides of the party divide . |
| 17 | He had little formal education , but his Christian conviction ideally qualified him to be apprentice to the Reverend Arthur Hird , who worked on Hodder 's religious publishing . |
| 18 | The main thing seems to be sport . |
| 19 | The decision to look for a significant equity partner appears to be Virgin 's attempt to keep out of the clutches of the five majors while remaining a credible force in the worldwide music business . |
| 20 | It used to be airport north at that time , small house on the edge of the Western side is n't it ? |
| 21 | And , if any other recommendation be needed , I was asked for the second time to be coach monitor on our outing to Brighton , so you can see that I must be OK . |
| 22 | The problem of extension of power was evaded in Expenses , where the Court found the Organisation 's actions to be intra vires the Charter , and was side-stepped by the use of estoppel in Nicaragua . |
| 23 | The editor will continue to be anthropologist , art historian and classicist Francesco Pellizzi . |
| 24 | Beauty , fair , fair to be fairness to look at . |
| 25 | There seems at this point to be disagreement among the regulationists , with some hypothesizing that the decentralization within Britain was the beginning of a new phase of ( neo-Fordist ) accumulation ( Aglietta , 1979 ; Dunford , Geddes and Perrons , 1981 ) , while others ( Martin , 1988 ; Marshall , 1987 ) clearly see it as an attempt to use geographical restructuring to prolong the life of Fordism . |
| 26 | From then on , she trips and twirls like a prima donna at an infant ballet class , gurgles and squeaks to the point of practically begging to be mercy killed , and generally flaunts a dodgy child sexuality that is neither funny nor subversive , but is stupid and dangerous . |
| 27 | Lucker dives off to be photographer . |
| 28 | At first sight there does seem to be communication — but there is no overlap of perceptual bubbles . |
| 29 | If there was to be selection then some would inevitably be selected out of the grammar school class . |
| 30 | They counted the number of the copulations and they found the females were copulating much more than they needed in order to have , have offspring , so the big problem is why do female adders go to all the trouble of extra copulations with extra males when they could easily just make do with one or two and store the semen , and er the consequence as you could have predicted I think having attended my lectures , is that there does seem to be selection for erm sperm competition in male adders and the , the supposition seems to be that females are openly inciting male sperm competition , because they 're mating with many more males than they need to and there does n't seem to be another gain , they do n't get provisioning from a male , they , all they get is sperm . |