Example sentences of "to be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes — but you are not expected to be a nurse . |
| 2 | While pneumonia continues to be a common occurrence , by 1989 improved treatment had reduced the numbers dying as a result to only 3% . |
| 3 | ACET aims to be a practical resource to local churches and Christian organisations seeking to prevent new infection and provide basic community care . |
| 4 | We can start with Baudelaire , sometimes considered to be a father of modern criticism . |
| 5 | Barr , in what used to be a general policy for museum curators , was not writing a passionate defence of the work his museum exhibited . |
| 6 | As he explained : ‘ My starting point has to be a vision , otherwise I can not do anything . |
| 7 | It is intended to be a contribution to the history of style rather than of individual artists . |
| 8 | Here the writer is likely to be a practitioner , and the approach may defer to the popularity of the medium as a pastime for amateurs . |
| 9 | anyone who expects this book to be a treatise on the history of landscape painting will be disappointed … in spite of copious rewriting , lectures these pages remain . |
| 10 | The catalogue raisonné continues to be a key document for authentication of an artist 's work . |
| 11 | One of the most beautiful of these represents a thirsty man , whose desire for water is represented in the most lively manner as he kneels on the ground to drink from a spring , with such wonderful reality that one might imagine him to be a real person . |
| 12 | The gangs exist as intimations of a power which cancels Ahmed 's claim to be a revolutionary leader . |
| 13 | The poor little rich boy was looked after by a second mother in the person of strict Ilse , from Germany : this did a great deal , but not enough , to relieve the isolation he felt — which , as his researches disclosed , was to be a factor in the isolation and rejection suffered in turn by his younger brother , who also left for the Mediterranean . |
| 14 | This appears to be a key point , but it is one that is left controversial . |
| 15 | Many poems contain a critique of poetry , just as many contain a critique of the self-portrayed poet , and of his intention to serve a social or doctrinal system , or of his claim to be a special case . |
| 16 | The Ethiopian book , published in Britain in 1983 , showed him to be a writer interested in ‘ autocrats ’ — in absolute power and in the transformation of that power into its indistinguishable opposite . |
| 17 | He visited them in Egypt , accompanied by a girl he 'd met in a bar , who proved to be a lesbian . |
| 18 | These pictures , rarely cordial , have become more and more baleful : it is as if he is holding himself back from physical assault on a reader supposed to be a trendy and a lefty , which is , indeed , what many of his readers have always been . |
| 19 | And even Jenny , who is meant to be a mistress of plain speech , is allowed , in this comparatively austere book , a quiet felicity of phrase based on the justice of her perceptions . |
| 20 | Making difficulties just so as to be a person . |
| 21 | Between men and women , too , there is said to be a barrier . |
| 22 | Beyond this , the use of biography , its actual ability to throw light ( rather than just to be entertaining and nice to have around ) , seems to be a fantasy . |
| 23 | The Facts shows signs of a wish to be ‘ reconciled with the tribe ’ , and indeed to be a ‘ nice fellow ’ . |
| 24 | At the same time , the article is tainted by what seems to be a desire to inflict damage on Levi 's reputation , of a kind which may be thought to serve the ideological tendency of the magazine in which it appeared . |
| 25 | Levi 's double life as chemist and writer suggests that if art and work need to be separated , according to a certain sense of what it is to be a Jew , art and work are nevertheless very often the same . |
| 26 | Ronnie , I think , could be held to be a precursor of P for Patrick Doyle in Kelman 's novel of 1989 , A Disaffection . |
| 27 | His relationship with the kids is one between equals , but they also seem to expect him to be a wise man , and this is what he sometimes expects of himself . |
| 28 | The average age of entry for the diploma course is between 18 and 20 , though some schools accept entrants as young as 17 , others students up to 30 : age between these limits is not likely to be a problem provided the candidate shows talent , flexibility and motivation . |
| 29 | This used to be a lot easier to do than it is now : for one thing , working in the profession means that you have to belong to the actors ' union , Equity . |
| 30 | The grounds were that he had used up his grant entitlement in qualifying to be a teacher . |