Example sentences of "[verb] to be the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I detest the architect Luís Fernández-Galiano , according to whom the mirror that is ‘ Guernica ’ , like a chameleon changing colour , will acquire the golden hue of its true commercial destiny in its seventh incarnation in the armour-plated chamber ‘ designed to be the flagship of socialist cultural policy ’ . |
| 2 | The carving is done generally in that portion of the temple designed to be the sanctum , and the doors are closed during three , five , seven or nine days . |
| 3 | In terms of the ultimate political objective of integration , the Common Assembly was designed to be the repository of ultimate control . |
| 4 | Would the House seek to be the authority for such automatic timetabling ? |
| 5 | By 1991 Rhône-Poulenc had achieved this — ‘ we wee beginning to try to be the leaders in terms of quality and performance ’ , said Landau . |
| 6 | The front cover of this brochure says that Guinness Brewing Worldwide is committed to being the world 's foremost brewer . |
| 7 | GUINNESS BREWING WORLDWIDE IS COMMITTED TO BEING THE WORLD 'S FOREMOST BREWER . |
| 8 | The choice of buffer distance would need to be the subject of some experiment . |
| 9 | But there would of course be a greater or lesser requirement for additional roadworks as a result of that proposal , which would need to be the subject of negotiation . |
| 10 | I realise now that she did n't have the qualities of insight and gentleness and the warmth she would need to be the companion of a country doctor . ’ |
| 11 | But because these books are written with a greater apparent degree of realism , the murder does not need to be the attention-grabbing , bizarre affair of the blueprint book . |
| 12 | This promised to be the kind of job he most liked . |
| 13 | Yet it was still a tour which promised to be the peak of Gooch 's great 18-year international career . |
| 14 | it 's not the illusion it promised to be the answer was here all the time . |
| 15 | The Agreement provided for massive UN involvement , and work had already started on raising finance from donor countries for what promised to be the UN 's most substantial peacekeeping operation ; some estimates put the cost at up to US$2,000 million . |
| 16 | Most toddlers experience a severe shaking of the foundations when the next child is born and they cease to be the baby . |
| 17 | And once changes are agreed , they cease to be the adjustments of the Government . |
| 18 | The fox 's role in shaping the ecology of the city 's wasteland is limited by stray dogs , which appear to be the animal 's main enemy in its urban surroundings . |
| 19 | The head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith , Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger , sees in America not the ‘ final , rational form of society ’ , but ‘ a world where money and consumption appear to be the measure of everything ’ . |
| 20 | And maybe that 's the case , or appear to be the case but it can be hurting the cause of Christ . |
| 21 | The rings were used in a variety of ways : some were worn on the arm or wrist ; others appear to be the frames for the mouths of pouches which are often found to contain small metal items ; a third use was as a girdle hanger . |
| 22 | The major control mechanisms appear to be the state of fullness of the stomach , the level of sugar in the blood , and a satiety centre in the brain known as the appestat . |
| 23 | Opening the book purely at random is to discover that most human activities appear to be the subject of superstition . |
| 24 | As defined above ( part I , section 2.4 ) , integral affinity relates pavements which appear to be the work of at least one of the same group of craftsmen . |
| 25 | Among the other barriers to growth beyond a low level of activity appear to be the investor base and hence placing power of established firms , which influence the ability to win mandates . |
| 26 | Knowsley , the home of national women 's champions Halewood , and Wirral appear to be the teams to watch in this mixed under-11 competition , sponsored by Littlewoods/Reebok , but Liverpool are dark horses . |
| 27 | Mary Heilman has lately been setting herself the task of uniting the eccentric spaces resulting from what appear to be the merging of two or more rectangular canvases . |
| 28 | With good feedback so far , such programmes appear to be the way forward for a company concerned not only with its staff but also with its customers . |
| 29 | These appear to be the assumptions that Musgrave had in mind : ‘ that the size distribution of income originating in various industries is the same [ or ] there is a random relationship between the distributional origin of expenditures on any particular product and the distributional destination of factor payments ’ ( Musgrave , et al. , 1964 , p. 201 ) . |
| 30 | O. alberti is similar to O. gracilis Koehler , 1914 ( Fig. 23 ) from the West Indies ( Albatross Stn 2751 16° 54'N : 63° 12'W 1236 m ) the main differences appear to be the arrangement of the oral papillae and tentacle scales which are more regularly arranged in O. gracilis not forming an irregular line along the edge of the adoral shields . |