Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] be a " in BNC.
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1 | We saw evidence of what would later promise to be a riot of butterflies with entire bushes covered by baby caterpillars and chrysalises . |
2 | But over the following 24 hours it gradually emerged that late on Thursday night she had undergone an hour-long operation under general anaesthetic for a throat obstruction , which was later disclosed to be a piece of fish . |
3 | The site was designed to be a mirror-image of Ford 's main US plant . |
4 | To help another major city — chosen by competition — to hold an international trade fair designed to be a showcase of British innovation for the twenty-first century . |
5 | The station was consciously designed to be a civic centre with a wide range of rooms including a theatre . |
6 | self-chosen evidence of pupils ' thought and action in written , visual and taped form designed to be a self-selected commentary on the pupils ' character . |
7 | It was designed to be a troop transport plane . |
8 | It is designed to be a place for SATELLITES , SHUTTLES , PLANETS and THE SHIP . |
9 | The story is designed to be a modern-day film noir . |
10 | Both Jesus and Paul will say that marriage is designed to be a one-flesh lifelong relationship , but they both recognise the human realities . |
11 | Designed to be a complete teaching package , Fanfare does not need to be supplemented by any additional material . |
12 | It was designed to be a communication between experts , discussing technical issues within their own subject field and hence was not intended for ’ public consumption ’ . |
13 | Designed to be a showpiece for the new series , the very ambitious script , even in its final form , called for every stage in Polo 's journey to Peking from the Himalayas to be represented with sumptuous interior sets , exterior sets done in the studio , animated map graphics , and a vast array of costumes , props and backdrops . |
14 | Apple 's Macintosh , on the other hand , was designed to be a closed system with a rigidly defined hardware and software core that all developers could take advantage of . |
15 | The more functional brace , such as the Lenox Hill Derotation Brace or the CTI/MVP brace , is designed to be a more effective deterrent against reinjury . |
16 | And it 's not designed to be a public meeting for anybody that come along and gives support and help would be more than welcome . |
17 | It is designed to be a first maths program for the younger user and is suitable for the 3 to 6 years age group , depending on the level of computer familiarity . |
18 | The Centre is designed to be a focus for social work research in Scotland . |
19 | This project carries out a study of the electorate , designed to be a continuation of the uninterrupted series of academic studies started by Butler and Stokes in the 1960s , taken up by Sarlvik and Crewe throughout the 1970s , and by the present investigators in 1983 . |
20 | A further specialized module , scheduled for docking in March 1990 , was intended to complete what was designed to be a multipurpose orbital complex for enhanced research in the fields of astrophysics , space biology , medicine and technology and the investigation of the Earth 's natural resources . |
21 | This was designed to be a very generous criterion , minimal examples of correct details could be ‘ We did n't have to wait at the lights ’ or ‘ There were several cars ahead of us ’ . |
22 | Fontenoy too was designed to be a watershed — washing away the detritus of the past , opening up a clear future . |
23 | Er when development schemes are put before us , or put before districts , it is possible to er to include a scheme which is designed to be a calmer scheme and in fact we have our own advice notes on roads and res residential areas that we hope to advise developers on that . |
24 | The 230 is designed to be an entry desktop workstation or server and has 8Kb of mixed instruction and data cache , and an additional 128Kb of level 2 cache . |
25 | The 230 is designed to be an entry desktop workstation or server and has 8Kb of mixed instruction and data cache , and an additional 128Kb of level 2 cache . |
26 | Dataproducts Corp has released XP-1 , a print server designed to be an intelligent noder for Unix or DEC Ethernet networks : allowing multiple hosts to queue print jobs transparently across the network . |
27 | Bullingdon Prison near Bicester in Oxfordshire is designed to be an answer to overcrowded cells and primitive conditions for Category B inmates , those serving sentences of up to 20 years . |
28 | Bullingdon Prison near Bicester in Oxfordshire is designed to be an answer to overcrowded cells and primitive conditions for Category B inmates , those serving sentences of up to 20 years . |
29 | Primarily it was designed to be an animal fountain for the herds of beasts that sauntered around on market day . |
30 | He will instead seek to be a kingmaker . |