Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [be] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew what blow had knocked proud Lucifer , the first angel , out of the sky and hurtled him down to be the founder of Hell . |
| 2 | But let me show you exactly what we I 'll I 'll bring in to being the list of businesses which we invite the golf club to forward to us . |
| 3 | Sometimes he was roped in to be the MC at these dances , which , for those who know only disco dancing , means Master of Ceremonies , and it was he who announced that the next dance would be a waltz , or a foxtrot , and was not supposed to dance himself until everyone else was on the floor . |
| 4 | But on privatization , they were split off to be the watchdog for what we put into the rivers . |
| 5 | I continued to chair the inquiry into pensions and later took over family policy when the much liked Minister of State for Social Security , Rhodes Boyson , went off to be the number two in Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | What all of this adds up to is the conclusion that drawing the line between activities that firms can and can not undertake co-operatively is almost impossible to do in the abstract . |
| 7 | They only person in the play to whom he reveals some of his real feelings is Roderigo , but only while using him as a tool , spending his money , and working him up to be the accomplice in his attack on Othello . |
| 8 | There 's nothing I want more than that my daughter should grow up to be the sort of person who gets along with everybody . ’ |
| 9 | I grew up to be the chela of Chaman , and Chaman became my guru . |
| 10 | It 's opening leads one to expect a knowing , ‘ insider ’ political novel , but it turns out to be the story of a destructive sexual passion , complete with purple passages , the saga of a successful man who becomes obsessed with his son 's mistress , who is only too willing to oblige . |
| 11 | In Britain 1984 turned out to be the year of the coalminers ' strike and Frankie Goes to Hollywood . |
| 12 | By an incredible coincidence , the day in 1986 when Simon proposed to Hilary also turned out to be the day he got his breakthrough with Radio One . |
| 13 | As he pulled on the oars — he could not bear simply to sit and wait for the bell to ring — John was again the boy who had set out to be the man he never became . |
| 14 | But whether serial or parallel processing turns out to be the way the brain works ( there will be more to say about this too in the next chapters ) , there will be cellular events associated with both the short-term and the long-term phase , and we have to try to distinguish between them experimentally . |
| 15 | This turned out to be the way to go . |
| 16 | The temple sits some fifty feet down in its own huge sandpit , buried for centuries until someone tripped over what turned out to be the top of a pillar . |
| 17 | ‘ Promises ! ’ she exclaimed on a loving laugh , and thereafter put herself out to be the epitome of all she thought he would most dislike in a woman , shyly calling him darling whenever she had the chance . |
| 18 | Just before half-time Keane grabbed what turned out to be the winner when he exchanged passes with Kingsley Black before rounding Flowers and rolling the ball home . |
| 19 | Strange how what you regard at the time as being your downfall , often turns out to be the making of you . |
| 20 | Byrd and Philippe de Monte ; Byrd and Taverner ; Byrd and keyboard composers of Redford 's generation ; Byrd and Tallis ; Byrd and Parsons : Byrd research has brought these and many other connections to light , and they cry out to be the stuff of records called ‘ Byrd and his contemporaries ’ . |
| 21 | It was not turning out to be the kind of summer she had intended . |
| 22 | Hibs turned out to be the kind of compliant opponents Rangers needed to help them develop only a fine film of sweat before their European Champions league match against FC Brugge on Wednesday . |
| 23 | And what happens if it turned out to be the Lord Bruce — eh ? |
| 24 | ‘ If this turns out to be the lady we 're looking for , she was engaged to a Treasury Minister , who called in my guv'nor . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I never made her out to be the Lady of the Camellias , ’ protested Hilary . |
| 26 | One fan sang along and plucked at an imaginary guitar , but he turned out to be the roadie . |
| 27 | When the sealed bids were finally opened , Speyhawk turned out to be the underbidder — by just £2 million below the £24 million bid by the London and Edinburgh Trust . |
| 28 | ‘ My husband and I have never forgotten your Cordelia ; we saw it on our honeymoon , ’ said the young woman , who turned out to be the wife of an enthusiastic amateur producer of plays . |
| 29 | Quite honestly a lot of them do turn out to be the customer 's own fault . |
| 30 | ‘ Whether Dickens himself shall turn out to be the hero of his own life , ’ Ackroyd wonders as he begins his story , echoing Pip in Great Expectations , ‘ or whether that station will be held by others , these pages must show . ’ |