Example sentences of "[noun] to [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does the application you have identified have the right characteristics to be a successful DIP system ? |
| 2 | The argument is clearly inspired by a religious motivation and shows Ulster protestantism to be a vigorous form of political religion , approving whatever defensive measures are necessary to avoid submission to Rome rule . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , given that it will not do to define law as a means to institutionalise dispute-resolution and so inhibit unregulated conflict , we may surely expect the control of force to be a major objective of law . |
| 4 | The magistrate did not consider a barrack changing-room to be a proper address , and so I was ordered to be confined in a bail hostel in Camden Town while social reports were completed . |
| 5 | Soviet officials considered the formation of this bloc to be a primary objective of the more assertive American policy in the Persian Gulf which followed the dissolution of CENTO and Soviet intervention in Afghanistan . |
| 6 | If you 'd a mind to be a true child to your mother , you could , but if you have n't , you 're best out of it . |
| 7 | And that I think is what Locke had in mind to be a full member of a civil society erm you 've got to erm give your express consent for example in the form of an oath of allegiance . |
| 8 | Sabine had expected the civil ceremony conducted by the mayor to be a formal , rather bureaucratic business , but it was very much a family affair , celebrated among neighbours who had known the bride and groom since birth . |
| 9 | H. L. Clark ( 1915 ) did not consider Ophiopristis to be a distinct genus and transferred the type species O. hirsuta to Ophiacantha the remaining species O. cervicornis , O. permixta and O. axiologia together with a new species O. imperfectum he transferred to a new genus Ophioprium with the type species O. cervicornis . |
| 10 | She had always considered Richard to be a fine and good man , a man not possessed of ambition , or of the ruthlessness required to succeed in business , a man with principles and a certain dignity . |
| 11 | On that day she decided he looked too much like a poet to be a good one , a view at variance with her view of Hodgkiss , who looked too unlike what he was , profound thinker , Oxford don , to be satisfactory either . |
| 12 | ‘ Related company ’ shall in relation to each Industrial Party mean any Related company within the meaning of Section 11 of the Company Securities ( insider Dealing ) Act 1985 and any other company ( herein called ‘ a Parent ’ ) which directly or indirectly owns or controls more than one half of the equity share capital of such a Party and any other company of which such a Party directly or indirectly owns or controls company limited by guarantee by the Parties to be a Related company for the purposes of this Agreement . |
| 13 | No longer do we expect the penis to be a magical instrument that stands upright on demand , throbs and pulsates all night with the strength of 10,000 men , and immediately regains its firmness just seconds after ejaculation . |
| 14 | Marshall does n't quite know what to do with Geena Davis ' study in female renunciation as star player Dottie , a woman who gives up baseball to be a good wife . |
| 15 | She had refused to have her husband cremated , not because she had anything so fanciful as a religious objection to cremation , but because she quite erroneously considered cremation to be a new-fangled idea , and she objected to the new . |
| 16 | SCOTVEC considers the validation of courses and units to be a vital element in maintaining confidence in its new advanced awards and it is monitoring the process closely . |
| 17 | These observations , though few , have provided critical evidence of the depth of the causative fault ( 14–15 kilometres ) , while evidence from the main shock showed the fault to be a strike-slip fault . |
| 18 | Allosaurus was assumed from its long hind legs to be a kangaroo-type reptile that actually bounced on its prey . |
| 19 | In short , the exhibition traces the inevitable tensions between the need for factual accuracy depicting the ruins embedded in a medieval Adriatic sea town , the artistic licence determined by the taste for picturesque views , and the ruthless self-promotion behind Adam 's driving ambition to be a leading innovator . |
| 20 | The Congress of People 's Deputies had been created by former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to be a new legislative body for the Soviet Union , and was elected in 1989 [ see pp. 36401 ; 36512-13 ] . |
| 21 | In practice , it weakens the claim of literary study to be a coherent and self-sufficient discipline . |
| 22 | The American critics were usually poets themselves ; Leavis made no attempt to be a creative writer — though he has been claimed as such by Ian Robinson — but his own criticism emerged from the Cambridge milieu of the twenties , where Eliot was a dominant influence . |
| 23 | Although Gilgamesh failed in his attempt to be a true god , the other gods took pity on his situation and appeared to comfort him with the news that he would live honoured forever as a shadow in the Underworld . |
| 24 | Douglas Reed , for example , who resigned as Central European Correspondent of The Times in 1938 over his newspaper 's support for appeasement politics , and whose background and life history read like the classic facsimile of the alleged fascist , proved in practice to be a crusading anti-fascist . |
| 25 | It is n't easy in practice to be a good carer . ’ |
| 26 | It is a practical objection not one of principle , and I believe that it was the fundamental reason that Lord Reid , for example , considered the general rule to be a good one as he said in the passage my noble and learned friend has cited from Beswick v. Beswick [ 1968 ] A.C. 58 , 74A . |
| 27 | So often , a species appears at first glance to be a standard version of one of these ten categories . |
| 28 | ‘ I have an injunction declaring these festivities to be a public nuisance and ordering you to cease immediately . ’ |
| 29 | Black people have always known racial violence to be a criminal offence and Black people always reported incidents to the police . |
| 30 | Flexibility is the key to being a successful teacher . |