Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ability to obtain some patronage during an election contest was often essential to success , for it was not uncommon for every candidate in a crowded field to claim to be a friend of the administration in power . |
| 2 | Problems of this kind tend to be more pronounced if the left side of the visual field in each eye is affected . |
| 3 | The truth , I fancy — and the discovery that letters of this kind tend to be written in oddly similar terms ( the writer invariably shudders to think , the mixtures are always revolting or barbaric ) does something to bear out my theory is simply that reference to some particular ingredient has , subconsciously , touched off a painful nerve in the reader . |
| 4 | Although my income was unchanged , money ceased to be a problem , a worry , a source of guilt and anxiety , and became a reliable friend . |
| 5 | The markets in options that are deeply in or out of the money tend to be rather thin , and such options are not actively traded . |
| 6 | Advance payment has to be made to the Post Office to cover the value of the postage expected to be used . |
| 7 | The process meant that adolescence ceased to be what an American scholar has called an ‘ idea ’ and became , in his words , a ‘ social fact ’ . |
| 8 | Majority tend to be budget models |
| 9 | I want this Parliament to continue to be the forum of our nation and I believe that the vast majority of our people share my wish . |
| 10 | These contested cases where there is considerable media coverage tend to be those where the defendant(s) can attempt a claim that the victim consented to intercourse . |
| 11 | The oldest known wild barn owl lived to be nearly eighteen years old , but a male in London Zoo was recorded at twenty . |
| 12 | Where the holder of a canteen licence ceases to manage the canteen , the person who is in charge for the time being can , for a period of 14 days from the date " when the holder ceased to be manager , sell liquor as if the licence had been transferred to him . |
| 13 | The protection referred to is the protection afforded by registration of a Notice , etc ( see above ) ; minor interests are in fact mainly what would be described as equitable interests in unregistered conveyancing . |
| 14 | The list of possible influences on supply is , is exhaustive , erm , and as a result any models of agricultural supply response tend to be very , very simple , and it 's very easy to get a complicated model simply by looking erm , at why , one of these factors , disregarding er , any other , any other of these complications . |
| 15 | If Parliament ceased to be a representative assembly , in any plausible sense of the idea , or if it proceeded to enact legislation undermining the democratic basis of our institutions , political morality might direct judicial resistance rather than obedience . |
| 16 | Pliny the Elder , writing in the later first century AD , says that about the time of Vulso 's triumph statues of wood and terracotta ceased to be used at Rome and were replaced by luxuria from Asia Minor . |
| 17 | On Nov. 6 , 1989 , the Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to the settlement agreed to be paid to the victims of the Dalkon Shield intrauterine birth control device . |
| 18 | A representation or process which allows sets of word candidates to be considered will allow such early discrimination points to be used as soon as possible , even before the remaining acoustic information about trespass is present . |
| 19 | And the most general principle is : nominals occurring before the main verb of a sentence tend to be definite while those occurring after the main verb can be either definite or indefinite . |
| 20 | Technical Division confirmed that their view was that such income ceased to be relevant income . |
| 21 | The eminence referred to is not a striking local geographical feature , and the ‘ small Rivulet ’ is presumably the Fleet River , which was so often flash-flooded as to give the area towards Battle Bridge ( Kings Cross ) the name of ‘ Pancras Wash ’ . |
| 22 | The faeces in this instance tend to be relatively loose and pale in colour , while the dog remains hungry , simply because it can not actually digest its food . |
| 23 | In 1945 contributory negligence ceased to be a complete defence and became grounds for apportioning liability . |
| 24 | Graduate recruitment in many businesses and industries now tends to be evenly split , and companies will not be able to afford to lose a large chunk of talent in which so much money has been invested , especially as women in any case tend to be less tempted by the ‘ grass is greener ’ syndrome . |
| 25 | The Mesquite main strip aspires to being Las Vegas without anything like the money or the reputation . |
| 26 | It was so successful that it replaced all other control methods and the insect ceased to be a major pest . |
| 27 | An appropriate scientific technique has to be chosen for this task , and experience of analysing antiquities suggests that there are certain requirements of such a technique . |
| 28 | The molecular dimensions of a polymer chain in any solvent can be calculated directly from light scattering measurements , using equation ( 9.36 ) , if the coil is large enough to scatter light in an asymmetric manner , but when the chain is too short to be measured accurately in this way an alternative technique has to be used . |
| 29 | It might be the place where the young of the West come to be seen , but it is the old guard who hold their ground , the poets and writers , pamphleteers and musicians who leave their mark on the atmosphere of this enchanted city . |
| 30 | Of course , if the linker needle is bent the same applies , but machine needles get bent more frequently than the linker needle , the weighting needs to be correct . |