Example sentences of "it to be the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He expected it to be the only example of its species on which he would set eyes . |
| 2 | Congress , as a strong Labour Party supporter and member for many years , and my father before me , I 've always believed it to be the working man 's Party , created and born from the sweat and blood of our predecessors , and throughout many years supported and financed by the unions with our subscriptions and the political levy and I see it 's supported by the trade unions . |
| 3 | Is the person likely to feel coerced , even although you may consider it to be the best course of action for the individual ? |
| 4 | I have never seen this particular argument put forward in quite this form ; and I believe it to be the best argument for the ordination of women that there is . |
| 5 | It is not the least of Russia 's current ironies that , just as the West is re-assessing the value of a market-led economy , belatedly suspecting it to be the partial cause rather than wholesale cure of economic ills , the arch reformers are adamant that salvation lies in a western role model . |
| 6 | B arcelona will be Mota 's last major championship run and she wants it to be the perfect platform to retire from the international scene . |
| 7 | ( 106 ) We thought it to be the right choice . |
| 8 | Last year I took a special interest in Arrow , believing it to be the major threat to Transworld . |
| 9 | As the carpet has been in satisfactory use for some years , we should not expect it to be the actual cause of trouble . |
| 10 | Its aims and operations are still too loosely formulated to allow it to be the cohesive force it could be . |
| 11 | The KSR1 is scalable to 1,088 custom 64-bit CMOS processors and the company claims it to be the fastest computer currently available and deliverable , a full KSR1–1088 configuration delivering peak performance of 43 GFLOPS with 34Gb of memory . |
| 12 | We 're claiming it to be the fastest estate car in the world , the most exclusive and the most expensive . |
| 13 | Yes , but can that just be the income , or has it to be the whole capital ? |
| 14 | She sat with the blood thudding in her ears , just as it used to do when her mother began a tirade , and prayed for the impossible , for the carriage to be overturned , for it to be the wrong night , for her to develop a sudden and dangerous illness . |
| 15 | Having decided that since the CGLI was not really concerned with technician courses , it was inappropriate for it to be the validating body , it seemed hardly logical to give the responsibility to TEC , which had no remit for craft courses . |
| 16 | We have found it to be the ideal way of combining pursuit of a career in medicine with bringing up a family . |