Example sentences of "[vb base] to be [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of these mosaics appear to be of the fourth century , or the very late third , ( Smith favours a date before 300 for the mosaic from Newton St. Loe : Smith 1969 , 101 ; although some doubts have been expressed recently : Smith 1983 , 326 ) . |
| 2 | Although some lectures appear to be for the committed DIY enthusiast such as ‘ Mortar mixing and brick laying ’ , the organiser Steven Parissien , insists that the course is more about ‘ making people aware of which things are structurally disastrous and visually awful . ’ |
| 3 | The Oxford Saints certainly appear to be on the right track . |
| 4 | Stay with that a minute , erm , erm , I mean I would n't have thought we were in a position to give an assurance that er erm , that that no other complaints which appear to be outside the local ombu ombudsman 's restriction will be dealt with by support staff , I mean I should think we 're continuing looking continually looking for ways of dealing with complaints at the most efficient and effective way , and if that |
| 5 | We appear to be in the cosmopolitan city world of the uprooted . |
| 6 | I want to be in the best band in the world , it 's simple ! |
| 7 | but of course when religious orders come in they usually want to be in the inner city and , and would n't exactly qualify |
| 8 | I 'm not proud , it 's just that I want to be in the right place . |
| 9 | ‘ But I came late into the first-class game , I 'm 28 now and I really want to be in the big time before I end my career . ’ |
| 10 | He confessed : ‘ I want to be in the last tee-off time every week with Nick Faldo . |
| 11 | The rich tend to want to be away from the poor , but the poor want to be in the same jurisdiction as the rich . |
| 12 | Group pick up is very handy , if you 're with a large bunch of people in a large office , you can get together and say , ‘ Right , why do n't we answer everybody 's telephones if they 're not there , let's not just leave them ringing ’ , Okay , so you get together and you ask me and say , ‘ Right , this , this , this , this extension ’ , it could be up to 40 extensions , ‘ We all want to be in the same group pick up ’ , so what happens is the phone rings , but another one rings . |
| 13 | We 're going live to Gloucester , where Kim Barnes is with a group of women who hope to be among the first to benefit from today 's vote . |
| 14 | The ions in water and blood happen to be in the critical mass range . |
| 15 | But there 's lots of wildlife around , if you happen to be in the right place at the right time , and not singing a Betty Boo number at the top of your voice . |
| 16 | If you try to do the sums and ask could you do all those changes simply by sort of species going one way and the other relative to these changes erm in their origins and then those species which happen to be in the right direction being selection by some kind of species selection , I think the answer is you just ca n't make the sums add up right . |
| 17 | Sometimes this may be unfortunate pupils who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time ; but often it is the teachers ' families who begin to bear the brunt , and whose reserves of tolerance and goodwill may also , after a while , begin to dry up in turn . |
| 18 | ‘ We 're two different people who happen to be in the same business . |
| 19 | Well the national account what you are saying is the national account if the work 's for is then responsible for all those accounts that happen to be from the national account manager . |
| 20 | The transcendental practices of the Australia Aborigines seem to be of the same order as those of the Tibetan practices , even if not so highly developed . |
| 21 | In practice some rifts seem to be of the active type whereas others seem to have been initiated by passive rifting , although in many cases there is no consensus as to whether specific rifts are active or passive . |
| 22 | Both our customers and our prospects are feeling the squeeze , and we generally seem to be at the painful end of it . |
| 23 | These arrangements of Bayezid II's seem to be among the earliest occurrences of , and may well have helped to set the pattern for , a number of joint muderrisliks and muftiliks which appear in the course of the sixteenth century , many of which were at a relatively high level in the hierarchy . |
| 24 | The main differences between Italian Fascism and Nazi Germany seem to be in the greater degree of autonomy of industry and the failure of Mussolini to unite the middle classes and the working classes even superficially . |
| 25 | All his contacts seem to be within the Coptic community . |
| 26 | Deletions of 5q and 7q are now know to be among the commonest chromosomal abnormalities found in myelodysplasia and secondary acute myeloid leukaemia . |
| 27 | It turns out that bosons positively like to be in the same state together . |
| 28 | In London , the metropolitan police — established in 1829 — continue to be under the direct control of the Home Secretary . |
| 29 | He evidently considered that gain to be worth the negative propaganda value of a militarily minor defeat , especially as it was portrayed as a defeat for the Italians , not for the Nationalists . |
| 30 | ( As suggested in Chapter 1 , ‘ larks ’ tend to be at the lower end of the range and ‘ owls ’ towards the top of it. ) • Where are the sense organs that pick up such external factors ? |