Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Priestley 's most famous addition in 1774 is widely claimed to be oxygen . |
| 2 | It had emerged that a recently formed Soviet state co-operative company called ANT , with clearance from at least three government ministries , had bought the tanks as surplus stock from an armaments factory at Nizhny Tagil in the Urals , had arranged to sell them to a Western country ( not officially disclosed , but unofficially reported to be France ) , and had stood to make US$8,000,000 profit on the deal . |
| 3 | They have secretly wished to be lovers for years but the consummation of their affair is a recent event . |
| 4 | He continued to make radio broadcasts and took one of the lead roles in Noye 's Fludde , based on the Chester Miracle Play and widely considered to be Benjamin Britten 's masterpiece of children 's music . |
| 5 | The suggestions for when to seek advice in the following sections are only intended to be guidelines to help you decide when you need to call on the expert help of your health care practitioner . |
| 6 | The suggestions for when to seek advice in the following sections are only intended to be guidelines to help you decide when you need to call on the expert help of your health care practitioner . |
| 7 | ‘ It caters for people who do n't necessarily want to be Cher . ’ |
| 8 | This is as true of nineteenth-century Whitley Bay ( which literally ceased to be farmland ) as it is of almost all of Longbenton , developed as a Newcastle over spill after 1945 . |
| 9 | Death only wants to be life . |
| 10 | PRISONS , long considered to be academies of crime , may become academies of football if the police continue their ridiculous persecution of managers . |
| 11 | ‘ He might be only pretending to be gaga , ’ said Pooley . |
| 12 | In 1932 a journalist wrote of Roosevelt : He is a pleasant man who , without any important qualifications for the office , would very much like to be President . |
| 13 | Carlos was an easygoing young man , with so many girlfriends that Shelley knew they were only going to be friends , nothing more . |
| 14 | But you must be erm erm you 've obviously got to be Guinness addicted . |
| 15 | Sceptics may be willing to concede on bees and lighthouses — and on many other examples hitherto thought to be market failures — but the case of clean air remains awkward . |
| 16 | One very lively looking book provides typical examples of the features I would criticize : a focus on the history of the science dealing with the main discoverers who all seem to be men ; a use of the pseudo-generic ‘ man ’ and ‘ he ’ when the reference is to men and women ; more pictures of men than women ; a series of cartoons in the margins which portray boys more frequently than girls to illustrate some concept or show active participation in scientific experiment . |
| 17 | I told you — paper-games first , young people , students , they 're all going to be professors and headmistresses the day after tomorrow . ’ |
| 18 | It was not all going to be wine and roses ; and Leonard again felt the sharp problem of the Canadian writer at that time — having a small home market , not wishing to become artistically part of the ‘ 53rd State ’ of America , and yet having nowhere else to go . |
| 19 | Officially you are all going to be victims of a surprise attack on the rescue party by the native inhabitants . |
| 20 | Iraq is only shown to be Saddam and the desert ; the people of Iraq are without faces and voices . |
| 21 | ‘ There is obviously going to be displacement of people as specialist sites are concentrated , ’ says Ms Brown , adding that it would be necessary to ensure that the right amount of nursing support and training is available as the displacement of nurses takes place . |
| 22 | There are obviously going to be problems associated with learning at the bedside . |
| 23 | He says there are obviously going to be officers who query the reason for it , but they do n't have all the facts as they magistrates do . |
| 24 | There are so many combinations of what to have , what to get , what we ca n't get , what we need really I think is , what we need is obviously going to be priority is n't it ? |
| 25 | It only seems to be things I know already … . |
| 26 | We used to sell it but now it only seems to be Boots — I know it is still popular . ’ |
| 27 | The front runner has long seemed to be head injury , in which a microdialysis probe might readily accompany a pressure monitor and provide a guide to metabolic state . |
| 28 | Everybody has their own style and tone , and we do n't all have to be clones one and another . |
| 29 | Poets do not necessarily have to be commentators on the historic present ; there is a world within as well as a world without . |
| 30 | ( Paul insists that the answer to this question does not necessarily have to be PRS . |