Example sentences of "[verb] to be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The carving is done generally in that portion of the temple designed to be the sanctum , and the doors are closed during three , five , seven or nine days . |
| 2 | In terms of the ultimate political objective of integration , the Common Assembly was designed to be the repository of ultimate control . |
| 3 | I detest the architect Luís Fernández-Galiano , according to whom the mirror that is ‘ Guernica ’ , like a chameleon changing colour , will acquire the golden hue of its true commercial destiny in its seventh incarnation in the armour-plated chamber ‘ designed to be the flagship of socialist cultural policy ’ . |
| 4 | Would the House seek to be the authority for such automatic timetabling ? |
| 5 | By 1991 Rhône-Poulenc had achieved this — ‘ we wee beginning to try to be the leaders in terms of quality and performance ’ , said Landau . |
| 6 | Although the House of Commons has always contained some MPs who take an informed interest in the subject , they are in a small minority , irrespective of Party allegiance , being heavily outnumbered by those who are guided more by what they sense to be the prevailing expectations of the public . |
| 7 | I 've been involved in community projects and I can say I enjoy going into schools , but at the end of the day there will always need to be the regulated type of policing of crime and violence . |
| 8 | To which could be added that you do n't need to be the best to be top , if the ballerina Lyudmila Semenyaka is to be believed . |
| 9 | The choice of buffer distance would need to be the subject of some experiment . |
| 10 | But because these books are written with a greater apparent degree of realism , the murder does not need to be the attention-grabbing , bizarre affair of the blueprint book . |
| 11 | I am sure my husband would not mind if your daughter came but it may need to be the ( comfortable ) sofa for a night ! |
| 12 | But there would of course be a greater or lesser requirement for additional roadworks as a result of that proposal , which would need to be the subject of negotiation . |
| 13 | The advantage of using the OSCLI command is that you can use a variable for the file name and the command does not need to be the last ( or only ) one on a line . |
| 14 | I realise now that she did n't have the qualities of insight and gentleness and the warmth she would need to be the companion of a country doctor . ’ |
| 15 | I 'm told , though , that she went with some relief — because she would n't be around to witness what promised to be the ghastly ignominy of election day . |
| 16 | And it promised to be the most weird — was definitely the most lethal . |
| 17 | This promised to be the kind of job he most liked . |
| 18 | The Agreement provided for massive UN involvement , and work had already started on raising finance from donor countries for what promised to be the UN 's most substantial peacekeeping operation ; some estimates put the cost at up to US$2,000 million . |
| 19 | Their fleets soon arrived at Constantinople and the war promised to be the most wide-ranging since the fall of the first Napoleon . |
| 20 | Yet it was still a tour which promised to be the peak of Gooch 's great 18-year international career . |
| 21 | it 's not the illusion it promised to be the answer was here all the time . |
| 22 | And once changes are agreed , they cease to be the adjustments of the Government . |
| 23 | Most toddlers experience a severe shaking of the foundations when the next child is born and they cease to be the baby . |
| 24 | The head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith , Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger , sees in America not the ‘ final , rational form of society ’ , but ‘ a world where money and consumption appear to be the measure of everything ’ . |
| 25 | Magpies and jackdaws appear to be the major culprits and the problem occurs most in the spring . |
| 26 | Mr Kinnock said : ‘ You appear to be the only person left in the country who does not understand why the Chancellor resigned . |
| 27 | The notes of some of the patients treated have been rescued , and appear to be the oldest surviving records of the clinical use of the material . |
| 28 | Far Eastern cultures appear to be the most favourable in which to grow old . |
| 29 | For example , if one examines the number of people still at home at one year by whether or not they possessed what appear to be the three key traits of living alone ; not having an informal carer who can cope with all necessary care ; and having a high OBS score ( eight out of ten or more ) , then |
| 30 | Among the diurnal raptors , the various species of eagle appear to be the most important predators of larger animals . |