Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dutch are widely expected to be the first to try it . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , although possessing a less extensive grant of power , the Commission was widely expected to be the dynamic element in further moves towards integration . |
| 3 | In December he supported the formation of a new Moslem organization ( the Association of Moslem Intellectuals ) , which united a broad spectrum of Moslem interests and was widely expected to be the basis of support for his candidacy in 1993 [ see p. 37919 ] . |
| 4 | The next step in that process is widely expected to be the sale next week of Cockburn 's of Leith , a wine merchant subsidiary . |
| 5 | Comet IRAS-Araki-Alcock is widely claimed to be the first comet discovered by an orbiting observatory — the Infrared Astronomical Satellite , IRAS . |
| 6 | Although involved in organising , promoting and initiating a range of small business related schemes , the London Enterprise Agency sees the London Enterprise Programme as its ‘ most notable activity … widely considered to be the best of its kind ’ ( London Enterprise Agency Annual Report , December , 1984 ) . |
| 7 | He was known to have developed a huge network of patronage , and was widely considered to be the most powerful of the opposition candidates . |
| 8 | The regulation of these factors is widely considered to be the way in which the small intestine adapts to nutritional demands . |
| 9 | You and your PP take it in turns to be the ‘ explainer ’ and the ‘ explained to ’ . |
| 10 | It was apparently intended to be the north Hertfordshire commercial equivalent of Baghdad ! |
| 11 | This was a house that cried out to be lived in , was perhaps intended to be the home that Ace had never had as a child . |
| 12 | The portrait of Andrew Jackson Ten Broeck , aged one year and six months and dated 1834 , is one of the great masterpieces of American Folk Art by Ammi Phillips , long considered to be the single most important naive painter of the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | With either type , you may find a 50mm socket , into which a suitably-sized boss connector or adaptor is welded to take a solvent-welded or push-fit pipe , or a push-fit or compression fitting which takes a branch pipe directly so needs to be the correct size . |
| 14 | He was approaching the big speech about the Hooded Owl , the speech which Malcolm Harris had rightly claimed to be the centre of his play , the speech that the star had not once got through since he had abandoned his script . |
| 15 | There she found herself ensconced in a huge grey suede and chrome armchair , clutching a hefty measure of Scotch , and staring blankly around at what she could only assume to be the ‘ minimalist ’ style of interior decoration . |
| 16 | This was especially true in Scotland , and in particular , Glasgow , which may justly claim to be the deaf ‘ capital ’ during this era . |
| 17 | He was an ex-barrister , a very live wire , who could justly claim to be the founder of the present vastly expanded business . |
| 18 | He also knew that his wife , after being secretary to a bishop and then secretary to the professor of divinity , and his hostess for eight years , was better equipped to be the wife of the new Bishop of Durham than any other woman in the country . |
| 19 | I would so like to be the proverbial fly on the wall at those Cabinet subcommittees which are currently engaged on passing judgement on so far-fetched a proposition . |
| 20 | The thing is that I should so like to be the first to know , officially … ’ |
| 21 | But this is not just any conference : it 's apparently going to be the greatest ever gathering of world leaders in one place at one time . |
| 22 | In an environment where the data can be coming from ATs , PCs or portables the DaynaFile is obviously going to be the better solution and it has the added benefit of being portable between systems which is not true for the Apple unit . |
| 23 | What has been said above about sampling can only hope to be the very lightest of scratches on the surface of what is a vast subject in itself . |
| 24 | However , this has not necessarily proved to be the case when the time has come to commit the words to celluloid . |
| 25 | ‘ It was then I decided that there had to be a market out there for an ironing service for professional women — and this has very much proved to be the case . ’ |
| 26 | I have no interest in Carmichael 's enterprises , but keeping in seems to be the only way to find what happened . |
| 27 | Except on the odd occasion when the paper tray is empty , the problem only seems to be the inability of the printer to handle data as quickly as the PC can send it . |
| 28 | Does it necessarily have to be the sharing of bread and wine ? |
| 29 | The generality of application or the audi alteram partem maxim , and its flexibility in operation , were brought out by Lord Loreburn L.C. , who stated that the maxim applied to ‘ everyone who decides anything , ’ while recognising also that the manner in which a person 's case was heard did not necessarily have to be the same as an ordinary trial . |
| 30 | Indeed , this fact is more firmly registered in the layman 's mind than any other , and if he or she were asked to give a name to some species , it would probably be either Tyrannosaurus Rex ( wrongly believed to be the known largest ) , Brontosaurus or Diplodocus , the three most often mentioned . |