Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The half-back pairing looks like being Andy Hunter and Paul Campbell . |
| 2 | The biggest danger to New Level looks like being Tom Robinson 's Just Right Kyle , which races from trap two . |
| 3 | One young soldier I trained with was Tony Rees , from Whitchurch , Bristol . |
| 4 | Thatcher really did have a sex change , and the one she changed with was Paddy Ashdown , who used to be a man . |
| 5 | By now denying that the arm's-length principle applies to national museums Lord Armstrong makes me wonder how he interpreted his new role when he moved from being Mrs Thatcher 's Cabinet Secretary to being her choice as Chairman of the V & A. If he saw himself as dutifully executing government policy over the V & A 's restructuring it is understandable that he did not subsequently feel constrained to resign , nor to dismiss his director , when it had become clear to the museum 's staff that the essence of the restructuring separation of research from ‘ object-management ’ had been abandoned as unworkable . |
| 6 | Since it was designed to be earthquake proof and to resist cannon fire , the installation of the revised air-conditioning system was a remarkable feat as well as a test of the building . |
| 7 | The study is designed to be pilot study of this important issue . |
| 8 | At Midland , we are committed to being market leaders in the provision of quality money transmission services . |
| 9 | Daisy wished she could paint it , but you 'd need to be Lady Butler to capture that lot . |
| 10 | She did n't need to be Sherlock Holmes to know how he had picked up his nick-name . |
| 11 | In fact it must have always been his intention , after this grand restructuring to retire , and in 1980 the PS elected Diop to be party president . |
| 12 | Once the cells leave this position they cease to be stem cells and are committed to a pathway leading to maturation and death . |
| 13 | The meeting concludes with an A1 race in which the leading candidates appear to be Jan Little 's Wath Snowy and Williams ' highly-rated youngster Arfur Daley . |
| 14 | Other authors have recently cultured sarcoid skin lesions and grown mycobacteria that on sequencing appear to be M avium spp . |
| 15 | Here too the most common solutions appear to be women doctors and black doctors , albeit organised in collectives rather than on entrepreneurial , bureaucratic or capitalist lines . |
| 16 | The favourite buys overall , appear to be fashion items and electrcial goods , but it seems some shoppers will buy anything if it 's on a shelf . |
| 17 | A coastguard spokesman said : ‘ These cylinders appear to be World War Two ordnance which had been dumped . |
| 18 | Industry guru Marc Schulman has left UBS Securities to set up his own consulting operation , The Technology Strategies Group , whose primary customers are expected to be computer industry managers from both the hardware and software side . |
| 19 | And national guidance does contain some fairly specific indicators of what is expected to be structure plans . |
| 20 | The channel 's main competitor was expected to be Antenna TV , in which Minos Kyriakou , a Greek shipowner and supporter of the private radio station Antenna Radio , Rupert Murdoch and Leo Kirch , the United States and West German media tycoons , each held shareholdings . |
| 21 | However , the fact that 90 seats were to be reserved for workers , peasants , scientists , intellectuals , artists , students and ethnic minorities " active in the revolution " ( all of whom were expected to be NSF supporters drawn from its 145-member Council ) led to opposition accusations that the NSF meant to retain power . |
| 22 | THE ALton Carnival is expected to be lion size this year , with villages involved too . |
| 23 | Toshiba Corp has been showing off the robotics work it is engaged on at its research centre , where it has a number of projects that are or have grown out of government-sponsored projects : it is developing eyes 2mm to 3mm in diameter for a micromachine for use in inspecting pipes in nuclear power stations , and also a software-controlled self-mobile robot for use in space where not all astronauts can be expected to be robot experts . |
| 24 | In one incident in Alexandra , gunmen appearing to be Inkatha supporters slaughtered 15 mourners at a funeral , including seven members of the pro-ANC Congress of South African Students ( COSAS ) . |
| 25 | The play would turn on two questions : did the man officially claimed to be Rudolf Hess really hang himself , and was he Hess at all ? |
| 26 | He said : ‘ I still expect to be caretaker manager at Wembley on May 9 . |
| 27 | For my money , the worst team in the world has to be Birmingham City — they 're crap ! |
| 28 | fjortoft has not scored a single goal in the premiership yet ( he kept them coming at a very steady rate at rapid vienna ( under manager Hans Krankl — one of my favorite strikers — favorite striker of all times has to be Der Bomber , Gerd Muller , who scored something like 60 goals in 50 internationals ! did he in fact score against us in our 2–0 defeat vs Bayern Munich ? ) ) — i guess Fjortoft has problems adjusting to the english play and swindon is not the best of teams anyway . |
| 29 | ‘ As for the new series , it has to be Captain Picard . |
| 30 | ‘ I feel this has to be Ben Needham . ’ |