Example sentences of "[pron] [noun prp] [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when , in 1978 , McLaren returned from Brazil with the news that Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs was now ‘ lead singer ’ of the Sex Pistols and someone McLaren earnestly claimed to be the missing Nazi war criminal Martin Bormann was the new bass-guitarist , Branson took it with disarming enthusiasm . |
| 2 | The statement ‘ Truth is God ’ , which Gandhi instinctively felt to be a more accurate expression of his basic position , is not inconsistent with his description of Truth as Being itself , as eternal , or with his reference to Truth as that which alone is , all else being momentary . |
| 3 | It would also end the inevitable comparisons between slalom and WWR in which WWR invariably seems to be the poorer partner . |
| 4 | It was true if you had an American boyfriend you stood to gain quite a bit in material goods , as their PX always seemed to be well stocked with food and silk stockings , cigarettes and make-up — all things in short supply in England — and for this reason if nothing else the Yanks were never short of female company . |
| 5 | Above all , it found its perfect vehicle in a man whom McIlvanney still asserts to be ‘ the most exciting , moving and important sportsman of the 20th century ’ , Muhammad Ali . |
| 6 | His boast did not succeed in warning Swainson off what Gould now considered to be his territory . |