Example sentences of "to [pos pn] [noun pl] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence the Council expects a significant proportion of staff involved in teaching of courses leading to its awards to be engaged in research ; moreover , colleges are expected to provide a high standard of specialized accommodation , library provision , academic , technical and administrative staff and good working conditions generally . |
| 2 | If this is the case , then an infested ant may appear to its colleagues to be simply carrying an ant larva , something it would regularly do as part of its nursing duties ( Journal of Zoology vol. 225 , pp 59–70 ) . |
| 3 | And Raymond of St Gilles attacked the Rouergue immediately on the death of its countess , married to Robert of the Auvergne , rather than allow his family 's claims to her lands to be forgotten . |
| 4 | In 1989 , Lance Bombardier Steve Cummins , the soldier killed in Ulster , wrote it to his parents to be read at his death , and marked ‘ Anonymous . ’ |
| 5 | ( S. ) 65 ) that the Court of Appeal is less likely to be persuaded to quash the compensation order in such cases , where the offender in the Crown Court has caused specific information relating to his finances to be put before the court . |
| 6 | In this he not only antagonised Calvinists by describing the doctrine of Predestination as cruel and unjust , but even appeared to his friends to be contradicting St Paul and St Augustine in denying that Adam 's original sin was transferred to his descendants . |
| 7 | And , at the end of this act we are shown how his ambition has led to another theme , that of appearance and reality , where Macbeth is told by his wife to conceal his thoughts and appear to his guests to be the perfect host whereas he is really supposed to wait for the time to kill the king . |
| 8 | Only a year ago the Shah had seemed to himself and to his allies to be utterly secure . |
| 9 | This appears to your Directors to be unreasonable and not in the interests of the Company . |
| 10 | The blue component of incoming solar radiation is scattered so severely that it appears to our eyes to be coming from the entire sky . |