Example sentences of "[adv] to be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She strove daily to be the perfect wife . |
| 2 | She was waiting for him to kiss her , he realized , and it seemed suddenly to be the natural thing to do . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | However , this does not seem necessarily to be the case . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was not enough to be the best in the world at your chosen sport , as Joe Davis found to his cost . |
| 8 | As no doubt everyone knows , I am lucky enough to be the mother of the most lovely baby boy in the whole world . |
| 9 | So , if you are fortunate ( or clever ) enough to be the proud possessor of an appropriate handset , you will soon be able to use it throughout Europe . |
| 10 | ‘ You do n't look old enough to be the mother of two great big boys . |
| 11 | Ingenious balance shafts , which for the layman alleviate vibration and centrifugal imbalance , make this power unit smooth enough to be the envy of any chauffeur-driven decision maker . |
| 12 | For women characteristically experience change in their lives in a way which is only experienced by a man if he is unfortunate enough to be the victim of some mutilating accident or illness . |
| 13 | warty enough to be the Elephant Man 's . |
| 14 | She began with my mother , attempted unsuccessfully to go on to me and now feels Alexandra is old enough to be the next victim . |
| 15 | Patrick thought he looked insignificant enough to be the undercover MI6 man at the Bucharest Embassy . |
| 16 | Perhaps Cantona & Wallace would have worked , but Cantona was n't tough enough to be the front man , as scum found out in Turkey ( ha , ha ) , I 'm sure if Hughes had played instead they would still be in the EC . |
| 17 | We also recognise so to are the workers of County Councils , and District Councils , particularly because the er the government initiatives , one good point to V A T on fuel , and the increasing in in National Insurance Contributions and increases in taxation , so between the two sides has got to be some accommodation , bearing in mind the need for both of us to want to continue to deliver quality services . |
| 18 | At a depth of 16 metres he came across a larger than life size bronze foot sticking out of the sand that proved only to be the tip of a large area of buried statues dating from the fifth century BC to the fourth century AD . |
| 19 | In the second appeal , counsel thought it might have been relevant that the accused was shown not only to be the possessor of a deep , gruff voice , but also to hail from a working-class area of Dublin . |
| 20 | It was agreed that the paper should be redrafted and circulated , and that any published statements of policy should make it clear Conservatives ‘ did not believe additional resources alone to be the answer to law and order problems , but that the humanizing of our society had an important contribution to make ’ . |
| 21 | The Church appeared no longer to be the guiding force that she believed it once had been , and felt it ought still to be . |
| 22 | The basis was no longer to be the palace scaled down , but the cottage extended : ‘ In this view of a villa , the dwelling is to be considered as only an amplification of the cottage . ’ |
| 23 | O nine of four six four one six four one if you 'd like to comment on something in the news at the moment something on er Judy 's just said or er on this business of of life imprisonment , No longer to be the automatic penalty for murder judges to be given the freedom to impose whatever penalty they see fit . |
| 24 | The less apparent development of character and literary ambition seems adequately chronicled in numerous surviving letters to Helen Noble and to Harry Hooton , soon to be the husband of Janet Aldis . |
| 25 | Patrick 's recovery , soon to be the subject of an article in the Lancet , was now , as Ludens pointed out to Gildas , in danger of being taken for granted by them all . |
| 26 | Eddie George , soon to be the governor of the Bank of England , has asked to have his salary frozen for his five-year term to demonstrate his determination to fight inflation . |
| 27 | Ramsay MacDonald , soon to be the first Labour prime minister , was one of its graduates . |
| 28 | Based on the Intel 25MHz 386SL , the Power Exec EL has Type II PCMCIA slots — soon to be the industry standard — power management software and DOS 5 . |
| 29 | On his showing at the Brooklands circuit with a prewar 4½-litre Opel and by persistent importuning , he was accepted , in 1921 , as a team driver by Louis Hervé Coatalen [ q.v. ] , designer and racing manager to Sunbeam ( soon to be the Anglo-French concern , Sunbeam–Talbot–Darracq ) , the only English competitor in international events . |
| 30 | There were " unspeakable expressions of joy " on St George 's Day that year ( 23 April ) , the day of the coronation , in many parts of England and Wales , including an elaborate celebration at Lyme Regis , soon to be the place where the Monmouth rebellion would begin . |