Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of the June 1983 general election , with Geoffrey Howe widely believed to be destined for transfer to the Foreign Office , the financial strategy unveiled in his first budget of June 1979 was being quietly buried . |
| 2 | Today the Vatican rightly claims to be the country with the world 's lowest birthrate ; since most of its permanent residents are Roman Catholic clergy and nuns , the chances of a baby appearing in their midst are slim by anyone 's reckoning . |
| 3 | Flip over and you 'll find equally impressive tunes from Liberty City and Interceptor patiently waiting to be tried and tested , both estimable club-friendly giants sleepwalking through Deep House style lobbies and thoroughly warranting as much attention as ‘ Reach Me ’ . |
| 4 | Hull justly claims to be the birthplace of the Civil War . |
| 5 | Marie desperately wanted to be told what to do but there was no one but herself to rely on . |
| 6 | Is the Secretary of State aware that the United States still appears to be at war with Vietnam and that it is blocking all aid and trade in the International Monetary Fund and World bank and through misuse of the COCOM regulations ? |
| 7 | But Richard Dunwoody always appeared to be going the best and Baydon Star was a comfortable four-length winner , with the third horse Mailcom 30 lengths away . |
| 8 | The non-renewal of ‘ intervention ’ against Afghanistan also had to be reliable and guaranteed . |
| 9 | By the way , I know things have been a bit strained at Elland Road in recent weeks , but did the last record to be played before the team came out on saturday REALLY have to be Bruce Springsteen singing ‘ Glory days — well , they pass you by … ’ |
| 10 | In Romania from the late 1970s , the ubiquitous portraits of Nicolae Ceauşescu increasingly came to be replaced or to share prominence with pictures of the couple together . |
| 11 | Ramsey never failed to be grateful to the young pilots who won the Battle of Britain , and always afterwards remembered Battle of Britain Sunday . |
| 12 | There were many good reasons for adopting the latter course as Claudius badly needed to be certain of the loyalty of his army , and there was no better opportunity for obtaining this than the prospect of a great victory . |
| 13 | The new Eve momentarily wants to be a tragedy queen ; for a few flickering instants , she wants to be like almost ali the characters in literature whom we find most beguiling — Cleopatra , Anna Karenin , Madame Bovary , Eve herself in Paradise Lost — a figure who has risked everything for the sake of une grande passion . |
| 14 | England scarcely deserve to be there either , though they may well mooch their way through the side entrance . |
| 15 | Among the controversial issues which any negotiations would have to address were the following [ see also p. 36837 for so-called " Harare declaration " on ANC proposals for future negotiations , and p. 36912 for earlier policy guidelines ] : ( i ) nationalization : in press interviews in the days following his release , Mandela had reasserted the ANC 's stated policy of nationalizing certain sectors of the economy , including mines — this immediately provoked sharp falls on South African financial markets [ see also p. 37176 ] ; ( ii ) the armed struggle : Mandela had refused to renounce this policy , repeating on Feb. 14 that government installations were legitimate targets for sabotage [ ibid. ] ; ( iii ) power-sharing : the government and the ANC still appeared to be a long way apart on interpretation — the ANC for its part was not prepared to accept an arrangement similar to the current tri-cameral parliament ; ( iv ) sanctions : Mandela had already stated that " the conditions for which sanctions are being applied still exist " and thus there was no need for a review of the question [ for UK Prime Minister 's unilateral decision to break EC agreement on voluntary sanctions see below ] . |
| 16 | Mick still seemed to be looking for an excuse to return home , so I chose not to make an issue of the blunder . |
| 17 | Gorer , in his 1970 study of sex in England carried out on behalf of the Opinion Research Centre remarks that , " England still appears to be a very chaste society " . |
| 18 | Additionally , his father 's side of the family were very enthusiastic adherents of the British Empire and in addition to their being ( as Leonard preferred to call them ) ‘ gentlemen of Hebrew persuasion , ’ they were perhaps more British in some respects than the British themselves , recalling what Hugh MacLennan said in his superb novel of the period , The Two Solitudes : ‘ The French are Frencher than France and the English are more British than England ever dared to be . ’ |
| 19 | February always seems to be the busiest month for me . |
| 20 | But a cautious McHale yesterday refused to be drawn on Ford 's chances of landing a contract for next season . |
| 21 | ‘ Most of the time , ’ she said slowly , ‘ Jonathon hardly seems to be there . |
| 22 | Back in his hometown of Cork , Fergus always seemed to be floating in the wake of the other noted Cork scrum-half , Michael Bradley . |
| 23 | A UN mediation process to resolve the protracted dispute over control of Western Sahara began in June [ see pp.37628-29 ] ; the issue of control of the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melillia also remained to be resolved [ see p. 37222 ] . |
| 24 | Blackburn now look to be the only only team capable of catching scum . |
| 25 | His boast did not succeed in warning Swainson off what Gould now considered to be his territory . |
| 26 | Blackbird Leys now seems to be succeeding in the struggle to improve its image , and later in the programme Nick Clark talks to the people who live there . |
| 27 | Given the dire state of the rouble , computer sales in Russia now tend to be mostly to those pockets of the economy still generating hard currency . |
| 28 | Brenda here appears to be accommodating to her brother by using Creole . |
| 29 | Not only was ‘ Schtoom ’ a resounding dancefloor success , it also served to galvanise a latent collective of creative club forces in Scotland simply waiting to be led by example . |
| 30 | Ahmed 's revulsion from Jane sometimes seems to be shared by the writer . |