Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it [prep] [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would solve the problem choosing a new amp and getting to a gig only to find it to be a wimp . |
| 2 | I not only feel it to be the most relevant magazine to the industry I work in — the consumer finance sector — but have also found the appointments section excellent , especially as I secured new employment through it after being made redundant . |
| 3 | If they are to get full influence for the purpose of bringing constituencies up to the mark , they can only get it by being the channels for help . |
| 4 | Failure to talk about sexual needs may mean that the individual does not consider it to be a problem , or that he or she finds it embarrassing to discuss such matters . |
| 5 | Nowhere in particular I just want it to be the weekend so I can lie in bed . |
| 6 | As the carpet has been in satisfactory use for some years , we should not expect it to be the actual cause of trouble . |
| 7 | If employers ignore advice and subsequently it emerges that it was a real problem , that steps should have been taken , that research elsewhere showed it to be a reasonable system to look after employees mental health , then the scale is potentially enormous . |
| 8 | Oh well I I 'm not expecting it to be a , a miracle . |
| 9 | We say , for example , ‘ Looking at the Müller-Lyer figure , I would have said that AB was shorter than BC had I not known it to be an illusion ’ . |
| 10 | But politicizing the curriculum is not the same ( and the authors probably would not suppose it to be the same ) as broadening it . |
| 11 | However , the fact that there is some restriction on the power of the company to deal with assets subject to a charge does not preclude it from being a floating charge . |
| 12 | If there were a check , one need not require it to be an infallible one ; the fact that we might always be wrong about how the original sensation was ( a sort of memory scepticism ) is not a part of the argument at all . |
| 13 | She was born in Middlesbrough and her parents and family were from Skelton , so I always assumed it to be a North Yorkshire expression . |
| 14 | This formulation still allows it to be a justifiable ground for causing pain that it will promote a ‘ greater ’ pleasure , when no equivalent pleasure can be obtained otherwise . |
| 15 | A quick glance through the nearest showed it to be an empty chamber built of oddly fitted blocks of Cyclopean size . |
| 16 | Congress , as a strong Labour Party supporter and member for many years , and my father before me , I 've always believed it to be the working man 's Party , created and born from the sweat and blood of our predecessors , and throughout many years supported and financed by the unions with our subscriptions and the political levy and I see it 's supported by the trade unions . |
| 17 | The right hon. Gentleman knows — there can be no doubt about it — that , until recently , as the foundations of the poll tax crashed around his ears , he was still proclaiming it to be a remarkable success and something which was here to stay . |
| 18 | I checked the engine number with Perkins ( whom I might add were extremely pleasant and helpful ) who later found it to be the 4236 , rated at 82 bhp . |
| 19 | As Argyll and lord James said , in their reply of the 13th in which they openly declared it to be the role of the nobles and council ‘ to provide that the ancient liberties of the realm be freed from tyranny of strangers ( and ) to abolish ( God assisting us ) all manifest idolatry and maintainers ’ , he had not been ‘ so full and plain as we expected ’ . |
| 20 | ( e ) The actor is armed with a weapon or any article used or fashioned in a manner to lead the victim to reasonably believe it to be a weapon . |
| 21 | ( e ) The actor is armed with a weapon , or any article used or fashioned in a manner to lead a person to reasonably believe it to be a weapon . |
| 22 | Thus , for example , criminal sexual conduct in the first degree is established where the defendant engages in sexual penetration with another and the actor is armed with a weapon or any article used or fashioned in a manner to lead the victim reasonably to believe it to be a weapon . |
| 23 | ‘ I wanted each chapter to be separate , but I did n't want it to be a set of separate short stories ; so I had to keep an enormous notebook of who they all were and what they were doing at any given time . |
| 24 | Oh I mean I do n't want it to be a party where everybody goes off into different rooms , you know ? |
| 25 | And also I do n't , I do n't want it to be a barrier either . |
| 26 | And I do n't want it to be the same . ’ |
| 27 | Remember that you 're going abroad because it 's different so please do n't expect it to be the same as home ! |
| 28 | but they 're bonded to different groupings so , for example , if one had something like this er , let's call that see three , page seven if I had something like that that central carbon there and when they draw these things at an exam paper , do n't expect it to be the central one . |
| 29 | as an increase in the all in the allocation , but that the main message is is that I would n't like it to be a substitute for that . |
| 30 | Still , that does n't stop it from being an accurate prophecy , does it ? ’ |