Example sentences of "to be [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the South Africans are were last night understood to be unhappy that only the English anthem is to be played , but it was felt better not to cause more controversy in the light of Thursday 's threat by the African National Congress to call a halt to future tours . |
| 2 | It differs from the Biogas specimen in the shape of the dorsal arm spines , which appear to be equal and nearly an arm segment long . |
| 3 | The irony is only compounded by the fact that in retrospect those trade figures turned out to be misleading and only a statistical ‘ blip ’ . |
| 4 | We settled on a classic rock climb from the Etançons valley — the West-South-West Ridge of the Pic Nord des Cavales : a mouthful of a name to be sure and not a route well known outside the area , but Collomb assures of its worth : |
| 5 | The riskiness of the investment : investors are assumed to be risk-averse and therefore the required rate of return they require will increase with the perceived riskiness of an investment . |
| 6 | In her enchanting story of The Velveteen Rabbit , Margery Williams ' tells of a cloth rabbit who longs to be more than just a toy . |
| 7 | Experience at the Birmingham Money Advice Centre ( see Appendix III ) shows that — at least for the generally poor people who go to the Centre with money problems — mail order , check traders and other weekly callers such as tallymen are woven so closely into the fabric of daily ( or rather weekly ) life as to be more than just a possible buying choice . |
| 8 | It was getting to be more than just a bad habit ; it was beginning to become an established part of his personality . |
| 9 | From the outset , it has been clear that COSE , the Common Open Software Environment , would have to be more than just a unified desktop interface , and this week , two more pieces of the COSE puzzle appear to be dropping into place ( CI No 2,142 ) . |
| 10 | Peter Hewitt explains how a new managers ' toolkit proved to be more than just a game |
| 11 | From the outset we 've known COSE , the Common Open Software Environment , to be more than just a unified desktop interface , and this week , two more pieces of the COSE puzzle appear to be dropping into place . |
| 12 | For masturbation , it would have to be more than just a passing person . ’ |
| 13 | Be this as it may , the constitutional authorities who support the introduction of a Bill of Rights to limit Parliament , government , and the state , nevertheless recognise that it calls for a fundamental constitutional change if it is to be more than just a pious declaration of good intent . |
| 14 | From the very start , one must realise that WordStar for Windows 1.5 is meant to be more than just a word-processor , but is perhaps more aptly billed as a document processor . |
| 15 | But as Duke he was to be more than just the Count of Poitou . |
| 16 | For any type of policy to be successful both of these conditions need to be satisfied or else the policy instruments under consideration will fail to give an adequate degree of control over macroeconomic objectives . |
| 17 | The fact that this extra testing can produce extra diagnoses implies that a proportion of those cases diagnosed as NGU would turn out to be trichomonal if only the organism were adequately looked for . |
| 18 | The pelvic floor needs to be free for the voice to be free and then a voice has both highs and lows . |
| 19 | On analogy with subject access in social services and housing one might expect the governors to seek the consent of the person compiling the report and for such consent normally to be forthcoming since otherwise the record may clearly be incomplete . |