Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These phenomena are observed too often for them to be the product of the individual 's development alone . |
| 2 | ‘ It is n't convenient for me to be the subject of a whole lot of unpleasant rumours ! |
| 3 | You wo n't be staying here for very much longer , and I do n't want your last memory of me to be the way I was yesterday . ’ |
| 4 | Possibly the earliest mention of what are probably Anglo-Saxon graves is that by the thirteenth-century chronicler Roger of Wendover in his Flores Historiarum where he describes the excavation by monks of St Albans in 1178 of ten human skeletons at Redbourne , Hertfordshire , believing some of them to be the bones of St Amphibalus ( Hewlett 1886 , 115 ) . |
| 5 | If , as might appear on the face of it to be the case , ss20-24 can only be breached by actual acts , no difficulty arises with MDPs . |
| 6 | That being so , will my right hon. Friend seek with his Community partners to reactivate the Venice declaration which seems to many of us to be the only likely forum within which positive political action can be taken ? |
| 7 | I as a taxpayer pay money for clever chaps like you to be the production engineers of the Cabinet system of government . |
| 8 | Together , we are the Church of the PRESENT — but we need to work as ONE to be the Church of the future ! |
| 9 | The sceptic suggests that the two are only contingently related , i.e. that it is quite possible for there to be the one without the other , and that in fact for all we know this is how things are . |
| 10 | It would enable them to really allow the greater selves in themselves to be the people representing their people , their country , er so it would allow them to become statesmen in a sense , you know , it would allow the wise part of them to come forth , and for them to be in harmony with each other . |
| 11 | ‘ But I still feel he has all the attributes of a top midfield player and the potential is there for him to be the best in the country . ’ |
| 12 | She waited for him to be the first to speak , determined to take her lead from him . |
| 13 | It has also , strangely , given my mother a measure of freedom — the freedom through him to be the sort of woman she had , perhaps , suppressed in a long marriage with four children . |
| 14 | Later , later , she would tell him — of the embassy , Papa and J.D. — but for the moment it was enough for her to be the wounded girl whom he had healed . |
| 15 | Casual references by our political leaders to what seems to them to be the quite recent past can be lost on a young audience . |
| 16 | For similar reasons , the new sociologists of deviance were hostile to what appeared to them to be the reduction of crime to a ‘ technical ’ problem . |
| 17 | Both Carole and Susan agree that the above proposal appears to them to be the most workable . |
| 18 | There were mediaeval chroniclers , working from monasteries and sometimes from the courts , and those chroniclers were producing history which was an attempt as it were to set down what seemed to them to be the most important things that were happening at the time , with a few asides . |
| 19 | The struggle to recover the sense of relation to nature and to God , the recognition that even the most primitive feelings should be part of our heritage , seems to me to be the explanation and justification of the life of |
| 20 | This discussion of the primacy of communal property is a point central to Marx 's whole work , and the pleasure he gained in its confirmation in the work of Morgan seems to me to be the only really clear element to emerge from the notebooks . |
| 21 | The recorded destruction of documented Modern buildings , or their determined neglect seem to me to be the only two ways in which DOCOMOMO can remain true to the spirit of Modern architecture while communicating with representatives of the all-powerful museum culture that has architecture in its grip . |
| 22 | He still seems to me to be the same person now as he was when we first started working with them . |
| 23 | He did not ask for mercy ; he did not plead extenuation : he was here , he said , ‘ to invite and cheerfully submit to the highest penalty that can be inflicted upon me for what in law is a deliberate crime , and what appears to me to be the highest duty of a citizen ’ . |
| 24 | And this seems to me to be the clue . |
| 25 | We come here to what seems to me to be the central dilemma in second language pedagogy : the conditions appropriate for acquiring communicative resources are different from the conditions of their use . |
| 26 | The intention to make a graphic verisimilitude of appearance has no virtue in itself , nor does it seem to me to be the most important reason for spending long hours working directly from the subject . |
| 27 | They are ways which , in the light of the previous two hundred years of intellectual engagement with these areas , seem to me to be the most fruitful . |
| 28 | Moderator I declare my interest as a member of the panel on doctrine but I wanted to enquire whether Professor would be willing to include not only the problem of anti-semitism but what seems to me to be the opposite problem which also exists today , which is the problem of Zionism . |
| 29 | The reason I went into physics and what I try to inculcate is that the ideas themselves are interesting and that seems to me to be the main justification for it , so that when people try and justify scientific research by saying it 's good for the economy , the country and so on , or who knows what applications are going to come of it , I 'm inclined to sit rather quietly when that 's said because I 'm not convinced that some of the research that is done nowadays can have any practical application at all in that direct sense . |
| 30 | That seems to me to be the fundamental distinction , and should be fully preserved . |