Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the Intel side , the PCE-5S Pentium machine will be shown : it is currently running at 50MHz , but is eventually intended to be a 66MHz machine — all being well at Intel Corp . |
| 2 | It is difficult to understand why this screen — which was presumably intended to be a close-boarded fence — was needed , as the turnpike road is some distance away , one field beyond the other side of the river . |
| 3 | It was widely recognized to be a very important contribution to quantum theory , and it won him the Nobel Prize in 1922 . |
| 4 | Why do all plasterboards secretly want to be a FERMACELL gypsum-fibreboard ? |
| 5 | The suggested Fifth Man badly needs to be an up-and-coming forwards ' coach . |
| 6 | Also replaced in the ensuing Cabinet reshuffle was Petroleum Resources Minister Jibril Aminu , who was widely expected to be a candidate in the presidential elections scheduled for Dec. 5 . |
| 7 | A condition of the IMF loan was unofficially reported to be a 25 per cent reduction in public staff levels . |
| 8 | Because it makes public that which should stay hidden , pornography is widely considered to be a form of sexual propaganda . |
| 9 | AT 30 , Daldry is widely considered to be an inspired choice as the artistic director-designate of the Royal Court , London 's embattled home of new writing . |
| 10 | Bush 's public and deliberate linking of the " occupied " West Bank with East Jerusalem was greeted with near unanimous condemnation in Israel , where Israeli control over the whole of the " " eternal " capital " was widely considered to be an irreversible fact . |
| 11 | While working on the new opera , Don Giovanni , he also completed two string quintets , K.515 in C and K.516 in G minor — one of his greatest works in that key ; the Violin Sonata in A , K.526 ; and two small-scale ‘ divertimento-style ’ pieces , the exquisite serenade Eine Kleine Nachtmusik , and its antithesis , Ein musikalischer Späss ( A Musical Joke ) , which , in its wealth of wrong notes and inept harmonies , is obviously intended to be a satire on incompetent composers . |
| 12 | With the best counselling in the world , it is n't possible for a person like me , sometimes feeling guilty at even being alive , firm in my belief that I have only to breathe to be a nuisance , to suddenly switch through 180 degrees and see myself as white or even grey after seeing myself as black for sixty years . |
| 13 | I do n't much want to be a charge on charity if I can avoid it . " |
| 14 | It only needs to be a couple of shelves but think of all the thrills , spills and adventures you can pack into that space . |
| 15 | The ice needs to be at least 2in thick ; the hole only needs to be a couple of inches wide . |
| 16 | There obviously needs to be a simple , convenient way of assessing children in the process of one or more activities . |
| 17 | I do n't necessarily has to be a mother and father I think , so long as they are good role models that they have . |
| 18 | To help another major city — chosen by competition — to hold an international trade fair designed to be a showcase of British innovation for the twenty-first century . |
| 19 | ‘ Mani manent cum nostris semper in aeternum , Primarche ! ’ the Reclusiarch chanted in the hieratic religious tongue , which his listeners only comprehended to be a blend of sacred plainsong and occult invocation . |
| 20 | This is not a wholly negative development , but in the new atmosphere it creates antiracist initiatives can only appear to be a patronizing and unacceptable form of special pleading . |
| 21 | ‘ He said he was only going to be a few minutes . |
| 22 | Now it 's only going to be a short one , just out towards that buoy and when I call you , you can turn round , okay ? |
| 23 | Good I 'm pleased about that , so I did n't really want somebody coming all the way down from the West End cos I 'm I , I 'm what I would call a buyer , I 'm only going to be a buyer if I can get money from somewhere that I do n't know you know what I mean . |
| 24 | Oh it does , and he said to me , erm this afternoon , he said eh , oh he said eh , your weight loss is really , really noticing this week , and I thought well , even if I had lost weight this week it 's only going to be a couple of pounds , and a couple of pounds would not notice . |
| 25 | and there 's only going to be a couple of people there she knows and she was gon na ring Marie and see if Rob and I could go , you know , really as a , to keep , make up a foursome sort of thing |
| 26 | Now that 's obviously got to be a decision that you make . |
| 27 | Long thought to be a mystery , Coade stone is now known to be a ceramic body , and the British Museum research laboratory 's analysis in 1985 showed that it was a form of stoneware so resistant to the weather that it is as precise today as when it was originally made . |
| 28 | It was her research that showed how close we are in evolutionary terms to the apes : how they communicate with each other , use tools ( hitherto thought to be a strictly human activity ) and develop lifelong bonds of family and friendship . |
| 29 | London 's Theatre Museum could rout its critics by putting on its very first , entitled Cinderella And Her Very Ugly Sisters , as well as a Panto Fun Week of workshops where families can find out how Daisy the Cow negotiates the stage or how a handsome actor is turned into an Ugly Sister , or personally seem to be a Dame or a Principal Boy by being photographed with face beaming through a cut-out stylised figure . |
| 30 | First of all , the coins are not necessarily going to be a representative sample from a particular site , because it is unlikely that the whole find complex will be recovered . |