Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] to be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no reason at all why the solution chosen by the majority has to be the best one . |
| 2 | But actual stories must be balanced and if not , the correction has to be the same , must have the same prominence in the original , as the original , article . |
| 3 | Fear has to be the worst feeling of all . |
| 4 | However , through all the long years of the Unix wars , Tivoli 's offering seemed to be the only thing that all the key parties could agree on . |
| 5 | My reason for being there was that this particular bit of coast happens to be the northern end of the Offa 's Dyke footpath , which winds for 168 miles along the English/Welsh border to Chepstow . |
| 6 | East Anglian brewers Greene King have launched a manual on food hygiene believed to be the first of its kind in the brewing industry . |
| 7 | But then she had heard that soft , unmistakable ‘ pop ’ from the tiny kitchen and her host had re-entered carrying a chilled bottle which the trace of vapour trailing from its neck proclaimed to be the real thing . |
| 8 | Increased gastrin mediated acid secretion seems to be the key factor in the pathophysiology of duodenal ulceration and explains the role of H pylori infection in the disorder . |
| 9 | Following the safety line up to your guide boat seems to be the best possibility , but only if the line has not been cut on the sharp edges of the ice , or if the boat tender has not had to release the safety line to keep his boat from being capsized or dragged under the iceberg . |
| 10 | That she is not taken seriously as a poet seems to be the greater problem . |
| 11 | The target of ciprofloxacin and the other quinolones within the cell appears to be the prokaryotic enzyme , deoxyribonucleic acid ( DNA ) gyrase , an essential enzyme that catalyses chromosomal DNA supercoiling . |
| 12 | The fourth side of the pond proved to be the busiest and also the best in terms of good finds . |
| 13 | Jacob Manor proved to be the very opposite of David Damiani or Fatima Zamzam . |
| 14 | I shall simply say that Lord Hailsham 's ‘ little ewe lamb ’ has not in practice proved to be the liberalising measure which he had hoped . |
| 15 | The full-time MBA continues to be the largest , although others such as Public Relations , Investment Analysis , and Information Technology continue to attract substantial numbers of applications . |
| 16 | A sticking-point seemed to be the Burmese demand for the Frontier areas to be brought into the constitutional process . |
| 17 | The decline is most marked among oaks and Scots pines , with insects and wind damage assumed to be the main causes . |
| 18 | Various formulae are possible , but the most advantageous from the computational standpoint appear to be the following . |
| 19 | The plan 's logic suggests that curators in the four cities would compete to be independent and daring , that the four venues would give exhibitions more attention than individual biennial shows and that the public would benefit from a greater exposure to work judged to be the finest of contemporary art . |
| 20 | The pub seemed to be the only building left standing ( a good motto for the local council ? ) on that side of Copenhagen Street . |
| 21 | Believing that old certainties are ill suited to new times , Culpitt appears , like a number of other influential commentators — Klein and O'Higgins ( 1985 ) ; Goodin ( 1985 ) — to favour the development of more reflexive , less ‘ ideological ’ approaches to social policy ( ‘ unprincipled' , pragmatic forms of welfare pluralism seem to be the favoured option in this regard ) . |
| 22 | Petitioning for bankruptcy tends to be the last resort , but even the threat of petitioning can prove most effective . |
| 23 | Yet as each statistic predicted to be the psychological barrier — one million , two million , three million unemployed — was passed , the expected reaction failed to materialise . |
| 24 | It studies a human subject who Transcendental reflection is not required for dealing with what Quine takes to be the traditional concerns of epistemology . |
| 25 | If inviting an elderly parent to come to live with you in your own home seems to be the best way of helping her in her last years , the first overtures you make to her on this subject need to be very tactful , bearing all the hallmarks of a really welcoming invitation . |
| 26 | The girl seems to be the perfect daughter . |
| 27 | British industry is becoming increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few producers , and oligopoly seems to be the commonest market |
| 28 | Self-publishing seems to be the only answer — if Mrs V will get in touch , we can form our own celebrity cookbooks imprint . |
| 29 | In many ways entry into middle management proved to be the exciting new challenge I was hoping for . |
| 30 | NEXT Saturday 's North West 200 over the famous Portstewart-Coleraine-Portrush circuit promises to be the biggest and best ever . |