Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Stockman ultimately proved to be one of Reagan 's most trenchant critics . |
| 2 | But Richard Dunwoody always appeared to be going the best and Baydon Star was a comfortable four-length winner , with the third horse Mailcom 30 lengths away . |
| 3 | IF Evander Holyfield 's fists prove as fast and slick as the promoters ' tongues have been these past few days , his world heavyweight title defence against Riddick Bowe tonight promises to be a masterpiece . |
| 4 | A further example of this caginess was the list of companies that refused to be interviewed for a Today Tonight programmed on gold mining in March 1990 : Riofinex , Glencar , Feltrim 's Conor Haughey and Navan Resources all refused to be interviewed for the programme , leaving the defence of the mining industry in the hands of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy , Ennex International and a speaker from Tara Mines , rather than Tara Prospecting . |
| 5 | A New York commodities broker turned artist , JEFF KOONS now claims to be in love with Cicciolina , the Italian porn star turned controversial politician . |
| 6 | Already famous as Bread 's Adrian Boswell , Jonathon Morris now wants to be well-known — as himself . |
| 7 | Greta Garbo even asked to be introduced to them . |
| 8 | We know that Dr Carrington ultimately asked to be allowed to die . |
| 9 | Sergeant Allen always liked to be ready early , to have everything buttoned up before the Troop Commander arrived : it got things off to a good start . |
| 10 | How did Aunt Louise now come to be living in Suffolk ? |
| 11 | Mr McGovern also claims to be free of the banks , never having incurred much long-term debt . |
| 12 | Neil Kinnock and Paddy Ashdown both chose to be filmed — on separate days — at the Travellers ' Club in Pall Mall , while John Major opted for Downing Street once again . |
| 13 | The puppet is an exhibit at a cartoon gallery in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the real Mr Heseltine just happened to be passing through . |
| 14 | In November Midland confidently expects to be handing over further substantial sums generated by the opening and usage of each Visa card account . |
| 15 | He and Sir John now appeared to be bosom friends and I secretly wondered if the Santerres had suborned this bumbling servant of the crown . |
| 16 | At the time of the June 1983 general election , with Geoffrey Howe widely believed to be destined for transfer to the Foreign Office , the financial strategy unveiled in his first budget of June 1979 was being quietly buried . |
| 17 | Is the Secretary of State aware that the United States still appears to be at war with Vietnam and that it is blocking all aid and trade in the International Monetary Fund and World bank and through misuse of the COCOM regulations ? |
| 18 | As suggested , the codes of best practice put forward by the Cadbury Committee still need to be put onto a more formal basis and helped to work . |
| 19 | The rest of the United Kingdom now seems to be beginning to move out of recession ; is it not true that Northern Ireland is about to move deeper into it ? |
| 20 | A Hamilton spokesman yesterday refused to be drawn into the political controversy created by proposed pit closures . |
| 21 | We first met him at an elegant hotel in the ‘ uptown ’ district of Manhattan , New York , overlooking Central park , a watering place well known to artists ( Joe Cocker also happened to be in residence at the time ) . |
| 22 | Many other aspects of the preoccupation with the Teddy Boys also prove to be factually unhinged . |
| 23 | But Lord Howe today refused to be drawn on the rumours . |
| 24 | I think my first issue was about September 1970 and do I recall a two-page debate along the lines of ‘ Does Bob Dylan Really Want To Be Elvis Presley ? ’ |
| 25 | The Oxford Saints certainly appear to be on the right track . |
| 26 | On the trade unions too , the Thatcher government again proved to be more cautious than its language might imply . |
| 27 | LENNOX Lewis today pledged to be a truly British-based world champion . |
| 28 | Juliet could n't help thinking how elegant Moira Charles always appeared to be , never a blonde hair out of place , never a crease in her dress . |
| 29 | The Arabic , for example , is ambiguous in respect of whether it is the copy or the itself that Yusuf Bali — who held the kadilik of Bursa for a time in the 840s-wrote ; and , on the evidence of the signature alone , it seems entirely possible that at some point , perhaps during his kadilik , he made a copy of the which Molla Husrev subsequently attested to be a true copy . |
| 30 | Trinity Square still proving to be very busy so expect a few minutes wait if you want to get yourself parked in there and have a couple of minutes wait if you want to get into the Victoria Centre that 's at the York Street entrance . |