Example sentences of "[adv] to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She strove daily to be the perfect wife . |
| 2 | Henceforth to be a Christian is to be united to the risen Christ through the adoption of the Spirit . |
| 3 | He felt irretrievably alone and the woman beside him seemed suddenly to be a total stranger . |
| 4 | She was waiting for him to kiss her , he realized , and it seemed suddenly to be the natural thing to do . |
| 5 | I have found that erm it seems basically to be a very pessimistic kind of fiction , more pessimistic than people have often given it credit for , largely because they tend to see , for example in Dashiell Hammett , who 's the author I 'm most interested in from this period , erm a precursor of a lot of heroes , private eyes , who were said to have a very kind of steely moral integrity , which they balance against a general corruption in the world outside , and it does seem to me that in fact with Hammett the detective mirrors the corruption of that world as much as he stands against it , so that it does seem to me rather pessimistic . |
| 6 | However , a colleague of mine , Don Page , of Penn State University , pointed out that the no boundary condition did not require the contracting phase necessarily to be the time reverse of the expanding phase . |
| 7 | However , this does not seem necessarily to be the case . |
| 8 | To say this is not necessarily to be an obscurantist hankerer after vitalism , a wistful adherent of a dualist view of " the ghost in the machine " . |
| 9 | Three species of owl produce slightly higher levels of breakage of the teeth of their prey , mainly of isolated teeth rather than those preserved in the jaws , and these will be seen below to be the same species that produce the greatest degrees of digestion , namely the European eagle owl , tawny owl and little owl . |
| 10 | Admittedly in many of Petipa 's pas de deux he seems merely to be a porter . |
| 11 | if the return to Conservatism is to be something more than the transient apparition of a spectre from the past , and its voice in national affairs not merely to be a sepulchral warning against the dangers of rash courses , the Conservative leaders must bestir themselves to some purpose … [ the Conservative Party ] must be ready to meet the programme of the Labour Party not simply with a non-possumus but with an alternative which will in some measure satisfy certain of the needs which Labour is concerned to satisfy , and at the same time avoid the perils with which it insists Labour policy is beset . |
| 12 | However , I imagined that the praise I received that night was merely to be a preview of the steaming sauna of appreciation that I 'd receive after the first night . |
| 13 | It will also be granted if any defence raised is shown merely to be a delaying tactic . |
| 14 | Editors do think explicitly about timing and they are not motivated merely to be the first to print a ‘ scoop ’ : they keep stories until the time is ripe . |
| 15 | The committee do not expect members participating to be put to any expense or undue trouble , the proposal is merely to be an ‘ old boy ’ friend in a strange town or country . |
| 16 | These do not seem like promising beginnings : English was merely to be an extra accomplishment for young middle-class women — a ‘ convenient sort of non-subject to palm off on the ladies ’ as Eagleton puts it ; and a substitute for a classical education for the discontented working classes . |
| 17 | Its 13 main business lines , each large enough to be a Fortune-500 company , have about as much in common as ice cream and cement . |
| 18 | They were great judges of character , and her analysis of Dana was : ‘ You are good enough to be a film star . ’ |
| 19 | And anyway , you 're not strong enough to be a docker . ’ |
| 20 | He 'd sailed these waters for six months and knew every reef and coral head shallow enough to be a threat . |
| 21 | The city traffic is distant enough to be a world away , so your meal will be served in almost perfect surroundings and will also be peaceful . |
| 22 | Just enough to be a real pain . |
| 23 | According to Sir Hector Laing , Chairman of United Biscuits : ‘ In a world where the large food companies are getting larger , backed by the cash resources of very rich large partners , it is not good enough to be a minnow : in order to compete internationally each company has to get bigger . ’ |
| 24 | It was the band 's last date before cancelling the rest of their European tour due to Kurt Cobain 's ravaged voice and , although messy in places , their performance still heaved with a sometimes dangerous , sometimes carefree sense of abandon , enough to be a vivid reminder of just why this band had meant more than any other for years . |
| 25 | Just stupid and irritating enough to be a minor hit — but I doubt it . |
| 26 | The Annan Committee disliked this arrangement , for even the local newspaper publishers ' association itself did not think the amount of advertising likely to go to ILR was great enough to be a threat . |
| 27 | While these links involved the provision of some common services , they did not constitute chains in exactly the traditional newspaper sense , since the holdings were not in every case large enough to be a controlling interest . |
| 28 | Not enough to be a dealer , only enough for what the police termed ‘ personal use ’ . |
| 29 | Nobody doubts that , in principle , Europe is large and sophisticated enough to be a powerhouse of new technology , but the achievement of that goal can only be impeded by the cost of supporting agriculture ( which consumes resources and engages people in traditional , not novel , tasks ) . |
| 30 | Right they 're all different but they 're similar enough to be a bit confusing . |