Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [be] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ] . |
| 2 | The next step in that process is widely expected to be the sale next week of Cockburn 's of Leith , a wine merchant subsidiary . |
| 3 | The regulation of these factors is widely considered to be the way in which the small intestine adapts to nutritional demands . |
| 4 | It was apparently intended to be the north Hertfordshire commercial equivalent of Baghdad ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He was an ex-barrister , a very live wire , who could justly claim to be the founder of the present vastly expanded business . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | However , this has not necessarily proved to be the case when the time has come to commit the words to celluloid . |
| 10 | ‘ It was then I decided that there had to be a market out there for an ironing service for professional women — and this has very much proved to be the case . ’ |
| 11 | Except on the odd occasion when the paper tray is empty , the problem only seems to be the inability of the printer to handle data as quickly as the PC can send it . |
| 12 | Does it necessarily have to be the sharing of bread and wine ? |
| 13 | That is to say , the effects of activating two components together have to be the sum of the effects of activating either in isolation . |
| 14 | Today the Vatican rightly claims to be the country with the world 's lowest birthrate ; since most of its permanent residents are Roman Catholic clergy and nuns , the chances of a baby appearing in their midst are slim by anyone 's reckoning . |
| 15 | Hull justly claims to be the birthplace of the Civil War . |
| 16 | And he loved to be the centre of attention — just as he will desperately want to be the star attraction at Wembley tonight . |
| 17 | Their room for manoeuvre , however , was judged to be limited because the budget was generally considered to be the product of the constraints which the Democrat-dominated Congress had imposed in October 1990 on domestic and defence expenditure [ see p. 37768 ] . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't know about being a sex symbol — I just want to be the sprinkling of sunshine in your cornflakes , ’ he laughs . |
| 19 | I just want to be the sprinkling of sunshine on your cornflakes ! |
| 20 | Meanwhile Sir Clifford has engaged a nurse , Mrs Bolton … who just happens to be the village gossip . |
| 21 | Leopardstown is generally reckoned to be the model for the new Down Royal stand and there are certain similarities I must confess . |
| 22 | ‘ I just happen to be the exception . ’ |
| 23 | The complex structures of the Gower Peninsula , and in particular the Cefn Bryn and Bishopston thrusts , are generally thought to be the continuation of the Front south of the South Wales coalfield . |
| 24 | When the primary and secondary coils of a mutual inductor are connected in series , the self inductance exhibited by the combination is easily shown to be the sign depending on the sense of the series connection of the two coils . |
| 25 | Anything could have sparked the riots , it just happened to be the injustice of Rodney King 's trial that triggered it this time . |
| 26 | One of the two witnesses , who also just happened to be the convener , Fred Clasper , claimed that a second warning note was unjustified as the foreman had been knocked down unintentionally . |
| 27 | The disaster is already set to be the world 's worst for ground casualties inflicted by a crashing aircraft . |
| 28 | The two women closest in the world to Charles were already known to be the Queen and Camilla , whom Charles had readily confirmed was a trusted friend . |
| 29 | Consider what were generally believed to be the policy implications of the NAIRU hypothesis . |
| 30 | The environment is no longer believed to be the vote-getter it was in 1983 , when the Labour government came to power . |