Example sentences of "to [be] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This might happen because the writer is tired , because he or she wants to get the writing over and done with ; but the fundamental reason seems to be that the writer has broken contact with the feeling that originally made him or her want to write the story or poem . |
| 32 | Following this reduction to a less serious ' offence , sentencing policy seems to be that the offence of taking vehicles without consent is not in isolation deemed to be serious enough to attract a custodial sentence . |
| 33 | The general rule with regard to these provisions might be said to be that the settlor will not avoid tax on the income which arises from the capital which he has settled unless he and his wife are excluded from all possible benefit . |
| 34 | The better view would seem to be that the court must respect the intention of the legislature of the State whose law governs the transaction and apply the Convention despite the reservation made by its own State . |
| 35 | The difficulty then is perceived by some to be that the law does not reach those persons who couch their racialist sentiments in moderate terms rather than virulently abusive ones , whereas — so the argument runs — this propaganda is equally insidious . |
| 36 | Accepted procedural rules appear to be that the person selected must have the support of a majority in the House of Commons ( if need be , after a new general election ) , and that the Monarch must ‘ secure the strongest Government in the minimum time ’ while still observing the need for public impartiality . |
| 37 | But since the early 1970s , there has been a great deal of controversy about it and the prevailing mood in the accounting profession appears to be that the system is archaic and needs replacing . |
| 38 | The explanation has to be that the company shot itself in the foot by announcing the Sparcsystem 10 machines with such a long lead time , many would-be customers are holding back and waiting for them , and that things will not really start to pick up until those start shipping around September time — which suggests that dullness will continue for the current quarter . |
| 39 | The theory seems to be that the contract constituted by the articles of association defines the nature of the rights , which , however , are not purely personal rights but instead confer some sort of proprietary interest in the company though not in its property . |
| 40 | The reason seems to be that the gospel story was formed backwards . |
| 41 | The typical operation seemed to be that the man took a lump of metal from a bin , thrust it into the machine , closed some kind of safety cage , and pulled a lever . |
| 42 | The reason for this seems to be that the opportunity cost of keeping boys at school when they could go out to work is greater than for girls , especially for poor rural families . |
| 43 | it was held that the circumstances were such that the conclusion had to be that the passenger was ‘ a person using the vehicle ’ for the purpose of clause 6(1) ( c ) of the mib agreement of 1972 and was not therefore entitled to compensation from the bureau . |
| 44 | He was entirely comfortable with the predictable opinion of the Senior Chief Inspector of Schools who confessed that ‘ I am not much moved by what appears to sacrifice the interests of the few in favour of the many when one result is certain to be that the quality of the person required to fill posts of great importance and of a highly specialized nature is likely to be degraded . ’ |
| 45 | So it has to be that the load shifted backwards . |
| 46 | The implication would seem to be that the opposition fans had better watch out because Blackpool fans might not be restricted by normal conventions . |
| 47 | For the entire working-class left the answer seemed to be that the tragedy of Austria would be replayed in Spain ; for the Republican left it was that the Republic would be constitutionally ‘ revised ’ out of existence . |
| 48 | Thus , it has come to be that the disability ‘ professionals ’ and us , their ‘ clients ’ , live within the carefully crafted , mechanical embrace of ‘ care ’ . |
| 49 | The basis of the debtor 's defence seems to be that the action is a fraud on the other parties to the contract to forbear from suing . |
| 50 | For example , if every time you tell the typist that your work is very urgent the result seems to be that the job arrives late , then maybe she hates being put under pressure and reacts in the opposite way that you want . |
| 51 | The problem seemed to be that the job had not been openly offered on the market here in Britain , an impossible condition given the remit of the job . |
| 52 | The argument seems to be that the world of reality and the concept of self are or should be structured by white parents and society . |
| 53 | However , the real point seems to be that the risk of an uninformed auditor 's being misled after a change imposes a greater cost than the benefit ( unquantified and intangible ) that a compulsory change would provide . |
| 54 | One answer seems to be that the subsoil , with its rich lime base , maintained the soil structure , preventing deterioration and loss of fertility and retaining the interest and yields of early farmers . |
| 55 | When Mister presented a case for the Trust , the main point of the proposal seemed to be that the application is only being made to prevent being swallowed by the or Trust . |
| 56 | One answer seems to be that the market will take another look at Impressionist prints , and those by the Nabis , both of which are beginning to seem undervalued , in comparison with what was produced by their successors . |
| 57 | A French tourist visiting England Locke 's case seems to be that the moment he steps on the territory of England he has tacitly agreed erm to obey the laws and in return erm of course he receives the protection of those laws . |
| 58 | Their largely unspoken view seems to be that the crisis in the ERM has passed : the system has survived , despite exits and devaluations among its weaker members ( no bad thing , by the way ) . |
| 59 | The effect of such clauses seems to be that the party relying on them is in breach of contract in the circumstances covered by the clause , but is not legally liable for that breach . |
| 60 | The unmotive you have vaguely hit on turns out to be that the fellow was obsessively jealous of his wife who was , as would be evident to everybody else , so obsessively faithful to him that no question of jealousy could arise . |