Example sentences of "[adv] to [be] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus it is one thing to adopt a radically subjectivist posture towards law reform and another thing entirely to purport merely to be describing the law as it is and then to conclude that it is wholly or even primarily subjectivist . |
| 2 | The first British single release for this month is still being debated , but whichever track is picked , Me Phi Me is confident his message is strong enough to be heard the world over . |
| 3 | THE person with the yellow rosette looked barely old enough to be supping the pint we set in front of him . |
| 4 | In 1977 I was fortunate enough to be awarded the Sir Ambrose Fleming Award for services to West Country television . |
| 5 | She was a very nice girl named Eugena , I think , and there were guards at the end of the hotel corridors , I remember giving them the slip and wandering around Khabarovsk on my own in a snowstorm , only to be told the next day that there was quite a bit of excitement in the city during the night because a Siberian tiger had come into the city and was wandering the streets at the same time I was ! |
| 6 | They were very very reliable because erm , the motive power was in a motor , electric motor , not a lot of parts to go wrong but er once you started the motor buses they had to send people away to be taught the mechanics of motor buses , so you had the old die-hards of the fetters , trolley buses , who never did take to motor buses and course the younger ones came into their own then , who were able to adapt to the modern motor bus . |
| 7 | But it 's far too soon to be writing the post-mortems . |
| 8 | The obvious objection to this ploy is that whereas babies , soon to be crossing the language barrier without let or hindrance , have the potential to develop into normal autonomous persons , even the highest animals do not . |
| 9 | Lesley wants sexual equality , but does n't believe attitudes have yet changed enough : ‘ We do n't yet have true equality ; until we do , women will have to overstress themselves and overprove themselves just to be given the same level of respect as their male peers . |
| 10 | The theory seems to be ( 1 ) that some act — noticing a resemblance — must precede uttering the word ‘ white ’ for the person who utters the word genuinely to be describing the object , and not merely coming out with the words , ‘ It 's white ’ as might a parrot , no matter what it was shown ; and ( 2 ) that the resemblance the theory requires one to have noticed , which is supposed to justify one 's calling it white as opposed , say , to blue , is what one is referring to when one calls the object ‘ white ’ . |
| 11 | Today 's obsession with preventing another round of hostile takeovers is like the habit of generals always to be fighting the last war . |
| 12 | Far removed from this Spartan scene reigned the Kaiser , in an environment that to some of his disquieted advisers seemed rapidly to be regaining the splendour of pre-war days in inverse proportion to the hardships what were mounting in the rest of the country . |
| 13 | There is an inexorable logic about McCabe 's observation of the process by which the child Francie 's engaging , restless , questioning personality is gradually mutated by a brutalising absence of love or understanding or any sort of kindness , into that of a deranged adult murderer , behind whose insane and degraded behaviour , are still to be seen the vestigial lineaments of an injured child . |
| 14 | There even men with the basic training of craft workers ( preferably in metals ) had still to be taught the specific skills of the skilled factory worker . |
| 15 | Sir Ranulph and his wife Ginny — the first woman ever to be awarded the Polar Medal — try to spend as much time as possible at their home on Exmoor , but even between expeditions , there is a lot of travelling to do . |
| 16 | PRIDE OF place at a number of P&O European Ferries ( Dover ) offices are certificates acknowledging their success in becoming the largest UK transport and travel company ever to be awarded the international quality standard BS 5750/ISO 9000 . |
| 17 | BOGOTA ( Reuter ) — Colombia was reported yesterday to be seeking the extradition of a suspected cocaine baron held in neighbouring Ecuador as a wave of bombings , believed to have been carried out by drug traffickers , continued . |
| 18 | As we have seen , schools are also to be given the option of leaving the Local Authority altogether and becoming in some sense independent , though with non-fee-paying pupils . |
| 19 | It was also to be assumed the four Orientals themselves would have to be faced , as they had no way of knowing that two of them were already dead , thanks to the actions of Sherman and the Prophet himself . |
| 20 | Taking advantage of the dry season , which would probably end in April , government units were said now also to be attacking the SPLA from across the border in Ethiopia itself . |
| 21 | In the agora was also to be found the administrative council house — the bouleuterion or senate house — of which interesting remains survive especially at Priene , Termessos and Miletos . |
| 22 | In January 1902 a day school was started in the Institute , becoming the Bucks County Secondary School , Wolverton , later to be renamed the Wolverton Grammar School . |
| 23 | By the middle of the 18th century , if not earlier , the parish was in the forefront in breeding new dairy cattle , later to be called the Ayrshire breed , and the increased milk production obtained enabled every small farmer to produce much more butter and cheese . |
| 24 | More importantly the larger molecules manufactured inside the cell were later to be called the dna . |
| 25 | In May 1940 with the threat of invasion a call went out for volunteers for a new force to be known as the Local Defence Volunteers or for short L.D.V. This was later to be called the Home Guard and " Dad 's Army " . |
| 26 | ( 5 ) Where under a contract of sale the transfer of the property in the goods is to take place at a future time or subject to some condition later to be fulfilled the contract is called an agreement to sell . |
| 27 | — later to be awarded the Victoria Cross and made Group Captain . |
| 28 | Of the additional safeguards now to be considered the primary one , both to investors and creditors , is the publicity which , to a greater or lesser extent , attends the functioning of the company . |
| 29 | Facing the title-page is often to be found the ‘ frontispiece ’ , devoted to a portrait or some interesting part of the subject matter . |
| 30 | The trade is though to be encouraging the poaching of Ethiopian elephants , and possibly also the smuggling of ivory from neighbouring countries such as Kenya . |