Example sentences of "[verb] to [be] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The study is designed to be pilot study of this important issue . |
| 3 | At Midland , we are committed to being market leaders in the provision of quality money transmission services . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Once the cells leave this position they cease to be stem cells and are committed to a pathway leading to maturation and death . |
| 6 | Other authors have recently cultured sarcoid skin lesions and grown mycobacteria that on sequencing appear to be M avium spp . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A coastguard spokesman said : ‘ These cylinders appear to be World War Two ordnance which had been dumped . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And national guidance does contain some fairly specific indicators of what is expected to be structure plans . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | THE ALton Carnival is expected to be lion size this year , with villages involved too . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ I still expect to be caretaker manager at Wembley on May 9 . |
| 15 | The foundation of all political campaigning has to be opinion research . |
| 16 | ‘ There has to be quality leadership by example . |
| 17 | It also may be the first single to have celebrated the guitarist as icon and as such has been the target of many awful cover versions by people like Michael J Fox , who want to be guitar heroes . |
| 18 | ‘ They wo n't do it — they all want to be air hostesses these days . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ The truth about chaps who want to be father figures , ’ remarked Lili , ‘ is that they actually want a mummy figure themselves . |
| 20 | But this ‘ labour market ’ has resulted in scarcities for the least desirable jobs and regions ( even despite generous wage incentives not enough people want to be coal miners in Siberia ) . |
| 21 | Um so er but nevertheless those sort of things are n't often considered to be child sex abuse . |
| 22 | The act created the concept of commercial contracts and of traders having a firm registered at the ‘ Firm Registry ’ and also dealt with partnerships , limited partnerships , joint-stock companies , and co-operatives ( which were considered to be business enterprises ) . |
| 23 | As we have seen , linguistic variables may be markers of certain fine-grained social functions within the community , which can be broadly considered to be identity functions , and which may appear as age , sex or areal differences , for example . |
| 24 | It would also have to be decided whether direct income payments and other forms of support for farmers would be exempt or would be considered to be export subsidies . |
| 25 | there were there were riveters deemed to be shell men , or riveters deemed to be er superstructure as you say , where they worked on cases etcetera . |
| 26 | The receipt of bulk payments from the legal aid board may include amounts in respect of unpaid professional disbursements ( which under the SAR are deemed to be client money ) , which it may be impracticable to split into office and client accounts immediately . |
| 27 | 9.2 Party walls The internal non-load bearing walls that divide the Premises from the adjoining units in the Centre and from the Retained Parts shall be deemed to be party walls within the meaning of the Law of Property Act 1925 section 38 and shall be maintained at the equally shared expense of the Tenant and the other respective estate owners As the footnote to the precedent states , the object of this provision is that the tenant and the adjoining estate owner ( who could be either another tenant or even the landlord ) will share the responsibility for the internal divisional walls . |
| 28 | Jeff Coons , one of the young bad boys of current art , wants to be porno star next . |
| 29 | Quasars are starlike objects that must be many times brighter than entire galaxies if they are as distant as the reddening of their spectra indicates ; pulsars are the rapidly blinking remnants of supernova explosions , believed to be ultradense neutron stars ; compact X-ray sources , revealed by instruments aboard space vehicles , may also be neutron stars or may be hypothetical objects of still higher density , namely black holes . |
| 30 | Buxton initiated his Civilization Society in part because he feared that to wait for antislavery principles to permeate foreign societies of slaveholders , which he believed to be BFASS policy , ‘ would cost us half a century , and that implies the sacrifice of twenty five millions of the human race ’ . |