Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [be] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do all plasterboards secretly want to be a FERMACELL gypsum-fibreboard ? |
| 2 | Also replaced in the ensuing Cabinet reshuffle was Petroleum Resources Minister Jibril Aminu , who was widely expected to be a candidate in the presidential elections scheduled for Dec. 5 . |
| 3 | In December he supported the formation of a new Moslem organization ( the Association of Moslem Intellectuals ) , which united a broad spectrum of Moslem interests and was widely expected to be the basis of support for his candidacy in 1993 [ see p. 37919 ] . |
| 4 | The next step in that process is widely expected to be the sale next week of Cockburn 's of Leith , a wine merchant subsidiary . |
| 5 | Pip has never really thought about his features until this point and from then on wants to be a gentleman because he has instantly fallen in love with Estella and wants to impress her , and make her love him . |
| 6 | Because it makes public that which should stay hidden , pornography is widely considered to be a form of sexual propaganda . |
| 7 | The regulation of these factors is widely considered to be the way in which the small intestine adapts to nutritional demands . |
| 8 | It was apparently intended to be the north Hertfordshire commercial equivalent of Baghdad ! |
| 9 | While working on the new opera , Don Giovanni , he also completed two string quintets , K.515 in C and K.516 in G minor — one of his greatest works in that key ; the Violin Sonata in A , K.526 ; and two small-scale ‘ divertimento-style ’ pieces , the exquisite serenade Eine Kleine Nachtmusik , and its antithesis , Ein musikalischer Späss ( A Musical Joke ) , which , in its wealth of wrong notes and inept harmonies , is obviously intended to be a satire on incompetent composers . |
| 10 | With the best counselling in the world , it is n't possible for a person like me , sometimes feeling guilty at even being alive , firm in my belief that I have only to breathe to be a nuisance , to suddenly switch through 180 degrees and see myself as white or even grey after seeing myself as black for sixty years . |
| 11 | This was a house that cried out to be lived in , was perhaps intended to be the home that Ace had never had as a child . |
| 12 | I do n't much want to be a charge on charity if I can avoid it . " |
| 13 | It only needs to be a couple of shelves but think of all the thrills , spills and adventures you can pack into that space . |
| 14 | The ice needs to be at least 2in thick ; the hole only needs to be a couple of inches wide . |
| 15 | I do n't necessarily has to be a mother and father I think , so long as they are good role models that they have . |
| 16 | He was approaching the big speech about the Hooded Owl , the speech which Malcolm Harris had rightly claimed to be the centre of his play , the speech that the star had not once got through since he had abandoned his script . |
| 17 | To help another major city — chosen by competition — to hold an international trade fair designed to be a showcase of British innovation for the twenty-first century . |
| 18 | ‘ Mani manent cum nostris semper in aeternum , Primarche ! ’ the Reclusiarch chanted in the hieratic religious tongue , which his listeners only comprehended to be a blend of sacred plainsong and occult invocation . |
| 19 | He was an ex-barrister , a very live wire , who could justly claim to be the founder of the present vastly expanded business . |
| 20 | He also knew that his wife , after being secretary to a bishop and then secretary to the professor of divinity , and his hostess for eight years , was better equipped to be the wife of the new Bishop of Durham than any other woman in the country . |
| 21 | Oh it does , and he said to me , erm this afternoon , he said eh , oh he said eh , your weight loss is really , really noticing this week , and I thought well , even if I had lost weight this week it 's only going to be a couple of pounds , and a couple of pounds would not notice . |
| 22 | and there 's only going to be a couple of people there she knows and she was gon na ring Marie and see if Rob and I could go , you know , really as a , to keep , make up a foursome sort of thing |
| 23 | Good I 'm pleased about that , so I did n't really want somebody coming all the way down from the West End cos I 'm I , I 'm what I would call a buyer , I 'm only going to be a buyer if I can get money from somewhere that I do n't know you know what I mean . |
| 24 | Now that 's obviously got to be a decision that you make . |
| 25 | Long thought to be a mystery , Coade stone is now known to be a ceramic body , and the British Museum research laboratory 's analysis in 1985 showed that it was a form of stoneware so resistant to the weather that it is as precise today as when it was originally made . |
| 26 | London 's Theatre Museum could rout its critics by putting on its very first , entitled Cinderella And Her Very Ugly Sisters , as well as a Panto Fun Week of workshops where families can find out how Daisy the Cow negotiates the stage or how a handsome actor is turned into an Ugly Sister , or personally seem to be a Dame or a Principal Boy by being photographed with face beaming through a cut-out stylised figure . |
| 27 | He was obviously going to be a Sheik in his own right , and it would seem that he knew it . |
| 28 | As her brother Charles says : ‘ Suddenly the insignificant ugly duckling was obviously going to be a swan . ’ |
| 29 | Some of these residents have lived in this road particularly all their lives and they 've suffered the traumas of living next to a pit and are absolutely horrified er at the prospects of what is basically going to be a scrap yard . |
| 30 | However , this has not necessarily proved to be the case when the time has come to commit the words to celluloid . |