Example sentences of "[be] [verb] to [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this Christmas , the battery-operated WWF Wrestlers are proving to be the best-sellers . |
| 2 | Sometimes they demonstrably were not ; for example , portraits of the Emperor Augustus struck at the end of his reign , when he was seventy-six , do not depict a man of that age and do not correspond with the unflattering description given by his biographer , Suetonius. portraits such as this are intended to be the embodiment of a political ideal rather than a realistic likeness ( though in some cases , such as that of Nero , they might be both ) . |
| 3 | The recent introduction of pilot one-stop-shops , which are intended to be the main local point of access to and promotion of all DTI services , and the diagnostic and consultancy brokerage services which are being developed to succeed the Consultancy Initiatives , will play a key role in helping firms , in particular smaller firms , to access the technology which they need as part of their business and marketing plans . |
| 4 | Digital Equipment Corp yesterday unveiled the DECpc MTE line of two 80486-based personal computers , starting at $2,650 and $3,100 : they include a 32-bit EISA bus and VESA VL bus and are claimed to be the highest-performance 80486 machines available ; they are Pentium-upgradable and offers a PCMCIA peripheral card option for data sharing with portable computers having PCMCIA . |
| 5 | They are claimed to be the first ever to enable system administrators to monitor and manage all their computing resources — computers , networks , and relational database applications — from one central management console . |
| 6 | The rooms are claimed to be the largest on offer in London , averaging 50 sq metres . |
| 7 | The expenditure negotiations this autumn are expected to be the toughest for many years . |
| 8 | Rechargeable batteries are expected to be the fastest-growing sector in the market during the Nineties . |
| 9 | Skincare , including cleansers and moisturisers , are expected to be the next big growth area . |
| 10 | They never get a day off , nobody thinks of letting them go off on a training course , they never get the chance to keep up and yet they are expected to be the fount of all knowledge . |
| 11 | Carriers are expected to be the first users of the interface since it will significantly reduce the cost of building a new Frame Relay network or of extending an existing Frame Relay network . |
| 12 | We focus our attention on the three months following the eruption , when the SO 2 -induced perturbations are expected to be the most significant . |
| 13 | The mainframe business and the chip business are expected to be the focus of the cuts , with further plant closures and property disposals thought likely . |
| 14 | Main users of AlphaWindows terminals are expected to be the mid-ranking clerical and administration staff of organisations who have several tasks they need to perform using different applications . |
| 15 | RIG owners are expected to be the main losers from oil tax changes announced in the Budget , according to a study issued yesterday by the Edinburgh energy consultants , Wood Mackenzie . |
| 16 | Local authority general services — mainly district functions like refuse collection and disposal , recreation , tourism and the countryside , as well as functions shared with regions like industrial development — are expected to be the main beneficiaries of the extra money from the EC . |
| 17 | Such has been reported to be the case by some authors ( Subirana , 1969 ; Luria , 1970 ) but not by others ( Russell and Espir , 1961 ; Newcombe and Ratcliff , 1973 ) . |
| 18 | Cardiorespiratory problems , mostly sedation related , have been reported to be the most common complication of upper gastrointestinal endoscopy . |
| 19 | In fact , Dunrossness has long been considered to be the most fertile and agriculturally productive area in the whole of Shetland . |
| 20 | Such increases in tannin in browsed Acacia nigrescens in southern Africa have been reported to take place in a few minutes and the production of ethylene during damage has been considered to be the promoter of tannin increase . |
| 21 | The UK had been expected to be the second largest customer for the NFR90 , after the USA . |
| 22 | Who should inspect the schools for councils but ex-teachers , because they are deemed to be the only people properly qualified ? |
| 23 | There are many stories in the Bible about great love between men and women , but the ideal role models in Judaism are considered to be the Patriarchs and Matriarchs : Sarah and Abraham , Isaac and Rebecca , and Jacob and Rachel . |
| 24 | It was found that even from those sources of commercial information which give quantitative information , for example ICC and Business Monitors , it is the qualitative messages that are considered to be the most useful by the planners . |
| 25 | These are the barn owl , long-eared owl , and all the Eagle owls , and these deficits are considered to be the result of sampling error . |
| 26 | Will 's best movements are considered to be the passage and canter pirouette , and his worst to be flying changes . |
| 27 | Royal women , too , even though quite ordinary in appearance , may be elevated in public opinion until they are considered to be the utmost in charm and elegance — again difficult to live up to , when they are continually ‘ on show ’ . |
| 28 | Core histones are considered to be the proteins forming the backbone on which the genomic DNA finds a support generating the nucleosome , which is considered to be the structural chromatin unit ( 1 ) . |
| 29 | BLOOD-borne diseases such as hepatitis B are considered to be the most important occupational hazards facing healthcare and public service workers , according to the results of a major European survey of trade unions , professional associations and health insurance companies . |
| 30 | Though CSE grade 1 had been deemed to be the equivalent of a good O level pass , this had not really brought the two into line : the equivalence was granted as a concession to the increasingly academic ambitions of the secondary modern schools , and , later , as a consolation to those pupils in comprehensive schools who thought they had been wrongly ‘ deselected ’ away from O levels . |