Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] be the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This must not detract from the enormous value of May 's pioneer work in publishing such large collections , and he can hardly be blamed for being the victim , as we all are in turn , of the limitation of the knowledge and ideas of the day . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In terms of the ultimate political objective of integration , the Common Assembly was designed to be the repository of ultimate control . |
| 5 | The front cover of this brochure says that Guinness Brewing Worldwide is committed to being the world 's foremost brewer . |
| 6 | GUINNESS BREWING WORLDWIDE IS COMMITTED TO BEING THE WORLD 'S FOREMOST BREWER . |
| 7 | In these schools , he implied , people would be falling over themselves to get jobs , and , in certain cases , they might be employed even if they had no formal teaching qualifications , though that was not expected to be the norm . |
| 8 | They never get a day off , nobody thinks of letting them go off on a training course , they never get the chance to keep up and yet they are expected to be the fount of all knowledge . |
| 9 | The two pitches of VII , which we had innocently expected to be the crux , were rapidly overcome with the confidence that comes from prior knowledge . |
| 10 | They undertake to start regular commercial passenger and freight services on the Target Commencement Date ( expected to be the date of the Tunnel 's opening ) , and to provide a passenger journey time between London and Paris of between 2h 55m and 3h 5m within two years of that date . |
| 11 | The proposals , described as the most far-reaching for 50 years , were expected to be the subject of intense lobbying from the financial and banking sectors when they came before Congress for approval . |
| 12 | She had expected to be the centre of things in Gallanach , but the McHoans as a family had so many other things happening to them ; she had felt peripheral . |
| 13 | Finally , at the low end , Acorn spin-off , Advanced RISC Machines , seems set to battle it out with AT&T 's Hobbit RISC in the handheld computer market — ARM has been taken up for Apple 's Newton range , while Hobbit is expected to be the RISC target for Go Corp 's PenPoint operating system . |
| 14 | Immediately the livingstonii swum up and gently nibbled my fingers — the last thing I had expected to be the cause of the tingling . |
| 15 | He had expected to be the deliverer of the news and then the great consoler , but Mrs Hogan was making light of it . |
| 16 | Main users of AlphaWindows terminals are expected to be the mid-ranking clerical and administration staff of organisations who have several tasks they need to perform using different applications . |
| 17 | One of the main battlegrounds is expected to be the island of Sardinia , which will host England , the Netherlands , Ireland and Egypt . |
| 18 | The next step in that process is widely expected to be the sale next week of Cockburn 's of Leith , a wine merchant subsidiary . |
| 19 | Far too often the village teacher was expected to be the creature of his employer , the school manager . |
| 20 | The mainframe business and the chip business are expected to be the focus of the cuts , with further plant closures and property disposals thought likely . |
| 21 | Simpsons ' directors yesterday recommended that shareholders accept Baldwin 's offer in what is expected to be the conclusion of a bitter struggle for control of the group . |
| 22 | Today 's move is expected to be the conclusion of a bitter struggle for control of the group . |
| 23 | Adaptation was expected to be the result of a change in visual perception or the proprioceptive sense of the arm . |
| 24 | In December he supported the formation of a new Moslem organization ( the Association of Moslem Intellectuals ) , which united a broad spectrum of Moslem interests and was widely expected to be the basis of support for his candidacy in 1993 [ see p. 37919 ] . |
| 25 | This was claimed to be the work not of the IRA proper , but of the Irish National Liberation Army , an offshoot of it . |
| 26 | Digital Equipment Corp yesterday unveiled the DECpc MTE line of two 80486-based personal computers , starting at $2,650 and $3,100 : they include a 32-bit EISA bus and VESA VL bus and are claimed to be the highest-performance 80486 machines available ; they are Pentium-upgradable and offers a PCMCIA peripheral card option for data sharing with portable computers having PCMCIA . |
| 27 | He was approaching the big speech about the Hooded Owl , the speech which Malcolm Harris had rightly claimed to be the centre of his play , the speech that the star had not once got through since he had abandoned his script . |
| 28 | These books typically claimed to be the distillation of wisdom handed down from Arab sages through the centuries , and they all drew heavily on Artemidorus 's work . |
| 29 | The Government have already scrapped legislation introduced by previous Conservative Governments , but it is extremely unusual , if not unique , for them to provide , in the Queen 's Speech , for the abolition of what was claimed to be the flagship of their opening programme . |
| 30 | One , the Border-Border Trek , is claimed to be the world 's longest ski trek . |