Example sentences of "to [be] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both agreed that there would seem to be no rational explanation , but everything pointed to the fact that Aubrey Clark was revisiting his old signal box . |
| 2 | Police said yesterday there appeared to be no sectarian motive for the killing . |
| 3 | Me : ‘ I told you there were to be no bug-eyed monsters in Doctor Who . ’ |
| 4 | But our crowded islands were as vulnerable as Japan 's had been to atomic attack , and there appeared to be no sure defence against it . |
| 5 | If you charter from Corsica — where there seemed to be no real shortage — take as much extra as you can manage . |
| 6 | There seems to be no real bite in exchanges between the parties . |
| 7 | Although it is a close-run thing arithmetically , there seems to be no real basis for this charge of bastardy . |
| 8 | And yet for most people there seems to be no real alternative — and they expect none . |
| 9 | It was far enough away to be no real danger , but it certainly stopped me going any further and was probably a timely warning ! |
| 10 | There seemed to be no real point in arguing with her . |
| 11 | Thirdly , I shall look at those Christian feminists who believe there to be no real gap , so that the problem is thereby solved . |
| 12 | There was to be no real rapport — with Peter Cook allegedly burning the first Oz in a Soho pub — until the Oz trial five years later . |
| 13 | There were to be no male heirs for Thomas — indeed , he was to father only one robust child who would survive into old age , as we shall see shortly . |
| 14 | In words aimed at the US president , Bill Clinton , he said : ‘ The Balkanisation of the region is coming if there is to be no peaceful settlement . |
| 15 | There was to be no stunned silence , no aghast staring and , it seemed , no dramatic response from Greg . |
| 16 | In 1941 he stood as an independent candidate in four by-elections ; but although he retained his deposit on each occasion , there was to be no political comeback for this highly cantankerous patriot . |
| 17 | Surely all political parties would do well to agree that there is to be no political vacuum in Northern Ireland and that we are determined to fight for peace as the future of Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | First , there appears to be no absolute right to such representation . |
| 19 | There seems to be no absolute reality in the world of physical forms where every creature sees things differently . |
| 20 | With the advent of Lloyd George , who as President of the Board proved to be no mean performer at the art of conciliation , the policy of promoting " permanent machinery " , industry by industry , for the settlement of disputes began to move into top gear , if only for the reason that no alternative policy seemed to be available . |
| 21 | It is quite another matter to be told what taxes to pay and how much unemployment is to be suffered and then as an afterthought to be informed that there is to be no democratic redress . |
| 22 | Team A — a group of students and a civil servant — probably came closest although , as in all things , there appears to be no correct answer , just a selection of possibilities . |
| 23 | There seemed to be no dark corners left , no little cupboards and half-hidden shelves through which a boy could hunt for evidence of his lost mother . |
| 24 | Though there appears at present to be no early evidence in regard to the allowance of the kadi of Istanbul , a statement in a seventeenth-century source , the by Husayn Hezarfenn ( Hezarfen : d. 1103/1691–2 ) , would seem to indicate that the kadilik of Istanbul was similarly a 300-akce kadilik . |
| 25 | At any rate Picasso seems to have realized , even before he began it , that it was to be no ordinary painting . |
| 26 | There seems to be no technical problem in taking the switchboard away from reception and Tony Frost is researching where else it could be sited . |
| 27 | Unfortunately there was to be no 200 metres event , but there were some invitation events scheduled including a 60 metres , and having won that event at the Cosford Games I thought that I would be selected . |
| 28 | He gave no reason , just reiterated that there was to be no 200 metres . |
| 29 | The only real conclusion that we can draw from such an exercise is that there appears to be no simple relationship between population and the wealth of a nation-state . |
| 30 | Even that turned out to be no simple task . |