Example sentences of "it [be] to [be] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was during this time , moving from one company to another , that Haslam learned the true meaning of what it is to be an adaptable manager . |
| 2 | And then the dark-greens are by no means united in forming a simple statement of what it is to be an out-and-out green . |
| 3 | Why are n't they closer to what it is to be an actor ? |
| 4 | What it is to be an individual subject fluctuates from ideology to ideology . |
| 5 | False claims to universality have been used to cover a persistent warping in our notions of what it is to be an individual . |
| 6 | Research might then be seen to be a mere luxury add-on , not an essential part of ‘ what it is to be an institution of higher education . |
| 7 | Helen never intended her As It Was to be an accurate account of their young lives , and there are no letters because they met often . |
| 8 | The inquest into the Greenwich defeat was not to be a debate about the future direction of socialism in multi-cultural inner-city areas ; it was to be an appeal to homophobia . |
| 9 | In many ways , these additional protocols reinforced the impression that for France the EDC was designed as a guarantee for itself against possible German aggression as much as it was to be an anti-Soviet organisation . |
| 10 | What convinced him that it was nonetheless a worthwhile project was , firstly , that it was to be an international collaborative effort between the Réunion des Musées Nationaux in Paris , the Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin and the FIAT group and , secondly , that there was scope to examine an unexplored area : the rediscovery of the Etruscans and their influence on recent European culture . |
| 11 | It was to be an opening of a very different kind for our hypothetical school-leaver . |
| 12 | It was to be an ugly demonstration ; damage limitation was not on the agenda . |
| 13 | John Hutt , Governor of Western Australia , was thrilled that it was to be an Englishman who was to dispel the mists of ornithological obscurity from the continent . |
| 14 | It was to be an arrangement which was thought particularly appropriate to royal monasteries . |