Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this Christmas , the battery-operated WWF Wrestlers are proving to be the best-sellers . |
| 2 | One forgot in the early enthusiasm that the rotors had never been intended to be a ship 's prime movers , too much was expected of them . |
| 3 | What problems there are tend to be a mite esoteric . |
| 4 | Those that have seemed to indicate that ESP might be at work have generally later been discredited : either the subject of the experiment has been proven to be a charlatan or the experimental procedure itself has been shown to be flawed . |
| 5 | And ma'am , just on a brief note of clarification , the report which has been referred to was a report prepared by the County Planning Officer , endorsed and I think was prepared in his name and was presented t to a working party of Greater York authorities . |
| 6 | No pornographer has ever been punished for being a woman-hater. but not too long ago information about female sexuality , contraception and abortion was assumed to be obscene . |
| 7 | Both brushes and foam can also take on a partial biofiltering role , but if they are intended to be a mechanical filter , they should be cleaned before they clog . |
| 8 | Oral examinations are intended to be a cross examination of the severest kind and your debtor will be required to bring his books , papers and documents into court with him . |
| 9 | These are intended to be a cheap , quick and informal way for customers to resolve disputes . |
| 10 | Lunchtimes at the Victoria Centre are intended to be a communal affair but at the Delphi Centre they are strikingly different . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The rooms are claimed to be the largest on offer in London , averaging 50 sq metres . |
| 16 | If there are expected to be a number of queries of the type ‘ How many lecturers are over 40 years of age ? ’ , the database administrator may well consider using date-of-birth as a key for inclusion in the index . |
| 17 | NI benefits are expected to be a target for cost cutting but the review is expected to be very wide ranging . |
| 18 | Benefit cuts are expected to be a critical part of the autumn public spending statement to be made by Chancellor Norman Lamont next week . |
| 19 | The expenditure negotiations this autumn are expected to be the toughest for many years . |
| 20 | Rechargeable batteries are expected to be the fastest-growing sector in the market during the Nineties . |
| 21 | Skincare , including cleansers and moisturisers , are expected to be the next big growth area . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We focus our attention on the three months following the eruption , when the SO 2 -induced perturbations are expected to be the most significant . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | Cardiorespiratory problems , mostly sedation related , have been reported to be the most common complication of upper gastrointestinal endoscopy . |