Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] to [be] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A payment made in respect of a claim arising under this Section where the only damage sustained by such motor car is breakage of glass in the windscreen or the windows ( or any scratching of bodywork resulting solely and directly from such breakage ) shall be deemed not to be a claim under the Policy for the purpose of the No Claim Bonus Section . |
| 2 | The informant was expected usually to be the person 's nearest relative . |
| 3 | So I was close by and so they sent me in so the way I , I got dressed up in the minister 's cassock , and I got in revised the books of Genesis , like through and I get genned up to be a minister and I took in a bible and er well anyway I killed five men and they got out alive . |
| 4 | You 've forgotten how to be a man , Richard . |
| 5 | Even before the dispute began one woman had come forward to be a shop steward . |
| 6 | This is essentially a distinction between assessment as an integral part of the curriculum and assessment which is designed primarily to be a form of communication serving the needs of the outside world . |
| 7 | He was appointed by Chris Patten to the Conservative research department but soon moved on to be an adviser to Cecil Parkinson at the Department of Energy . |
| 8 | All through this Cruickshank has carefully sought not to be the outsider caught between what could have been the conflicting demands of minister-in-government and workers and patients in the field , ‘ by brining in the ministers and whoever and getting that shared view . |
| 9 | Weather was said not to be a factor . |
| 10 | Although cost is said not to be an issue , corporate sales and marketing strategy for Teradata products , as for the rest of NCR 's offerings , will henceforth be decided in the US . |
| 11 | The creation or destruction of atoms or of energy was held to be impossible , at any rate for mankind — the beginning and end of the universe was generally accepted not to be the concern of scientists , down to very late in the century . |
| 12 | Petr Uhl , a dissident in prison facing charges of spreading false information , was said yesterday to be a victim of disinformation . |
| 13 | These turned out to be a row of haddocks . |
| 14 | However , it has turned out to be a bit of a gem . |
| 15 | ( Afterwards Andy Roberts pointed out that the only ‘ alien implant ’ so far discovered turned out to be a ball bearing that had got lodged up a child 's nose . ) |
| 16 | Meanwhile Norman Stone 's confident his reputation wo n't be dented like that of Lord Dacre , the Oxford historian who helped the Sunday Times serialise what he thought were the Hitler diaries but soon turned out to be a hoax . |
| 17 | What he had taken to be a gate turned out to be a wall , the hump on the ground near by a heap of gravel and the massive bulk on the other side of the road a barn whose gable end still bore the faded icon of a helmeted Mussolini and the slogan ‘ It is important to win , but still more important to fight . ’ |
| 18 | In those stories , the prince almost always turned out to be a god who sought earthly pleasure from his love only until he tired of her . |
| 19 | turned out to be a turtle , |
| 20 | Plus what had now turned out to be a ganglion . |
| 21 | Organised jointly by EurOpen and UniForum , OpenForum ‘ 92 has turned out to be a successor to the old European Unix User Group ( EUUG ) conferences of the past , with a high proportion of technical attendees . |
| 22 | Sadly , the one product that Medirace was developing turned out to be a dud . |
| 23 | As I say , I could have destroyed you , or so I thought at the time , but you 've turned out to be a lot tougher than I had imagined … not vulnerable or confused at all . |
| 24 | And the risk has turned out to be a disaster . |
| 25 | Nigel Martyn , the goalkeeper he bought from Bristol Rovers for £1 million , has turned out to be a snip , his acrobatics saving the day when United penetrated Palace 's back four , newly shored up by the strapping Andy Thorn . |
| 26 | One of them was an elderly man with white hair which had turned out to be a wig , and the CID man had remembered Matthew 's remark about the men who had burgled Moorlake . |
| 27 | Open-Plan Go had turned out to be a game of placing black and white stones on a grid to claim territory on an infinite board . |
| 28 | And then the last time ; that had turned out to be a walk on the wild side . |
| 29 | Actually , John nearly went to England much sooner than turned out to be the case . |
| 30 | Their decision made no sense because , at the end of the day , no solution could be evolved with which she did not agree — as indeed turned out to be the case . |