Example sentences of "to [be] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , being an active member of a political party seems to be neither a qualification nor a disqualification for appointment . |
| 2 | This gene seems to be neither an oncogene nor tumour supressor gene , but could be responsible for an increase in genetic instability by way of multiple replication errors within the genome . |
| 3 | It appears to be increasingly the case that there are two major traditions of identity perception among protestant loyalists . |
| 4 | In a market where speed is everything , as seems to be increasingly the case these days , ultimate speed brings mucho kudos . |
| 5 | Johnny 's double standards , and his entrenched belief in the superiority of the male , had led her into an angry tirade of defence designed only to prove that she was exactly the cheap little tart that he so obviously thought her.Their relationship seemed to be increasingly an exercise in one-upmanship : my time 's better than yours ; so there ! |
| 6 | But if you have the luck to come of country stock then you should never sever your roots , no matter how great the temptation to ‘ improve ’ yourself , or to inhabit more glorious scenery , or to be nearer a railway station . |
| 7 | Fear may be equally distributed between both sexes , but guilt is usually nearer the surface in women , while anger is more likely to be nearer the surface in men . |
| 8 | ‘ I saw it as an exciting challenge and a chance to be nearer the business . |
| 9 | We would therefore expect the following year(s) to be nearer the average . |
| 10 | Gandhi claims to be simply a seeker after Truth , ceaselessly searching for it , occasionally having glimpses of it , yet not finding it . |
| 11 | However , there is a tendency for the content of the packages to be simply a transfer of printed teaching matter to the computer medium , without capitalizing on the extra advantages of the medium , for example , making full use of its interactive teaching possibilities . |
| 12 | As de Lattre presented his case , his plan to construct 1200 bunkers of the Siegfried Line-type ( one wonders why its French counterpart was not mentioned instead ) was to provide against future Chinese attacks but , on the assumption that the Chinese might be deterred , French success seemed to be simply a matter of US munitions and confidence and , although it might have been misleading as a performance indicator , at the end of his visit to the Pentagon de Lattre was rewarded with Defense Secretary Lovett 's assertion that General de Lattre was regarded as a comrade in arms and that the US would do everything they could for him that was within their capabilities . |
| 13 | If you believe yourself to be simply an animal without an immortal soul but you also believe that you are capable of making moral judgements , you will need to ask yourself whether cats and mice and birds and insects are also capable of making moral judgements . |
| 14 | But if this new development were to be simply an aid to better assignments and projects then it would not be remarkable , because library instruction which is project-related and project-inspired , is not unusual , though it is less common than the separate library lesson . |
| 15 | My argument for functionalism is therefore critically dependent on whether or not I can convince you that progress in one of these areas — cognitive neuropsychology — is unlikely to be simply an illusion . |
| 16 | In other words , the focus of Gironella 's attention is neither historically nor iconographically arbitrary , although in some ways his reworkings of the paintings of others could be seen to be simply an extension of a fairly conventional activity . |
| 17 | Linguistics ought to be simply the study of language , and if the pragmatic , cognitive and procedural dimensions of language study which have become apparent in recent years mean that linguistics ( as an institution and a discipline ) has to take these dimensions on board , then so be it . |
| 18 | As for truth , Epicurus , rather like Hobbes centuries later , took sense-perception to be simply the effect of objects on our material souls . |
| 19 | But the sort of criticism that says ‘ if we want to achieve X , I believe we are going the wrong way about it , what we ought to be doing is Y ’ , seems to me to be exactly the approach that is needed . |
| 20 | During the last few months as we have got to know him better , he has shown himself to be exactly the sort of person we had hoped Annabelle would marry — charming , sincere , reliable — with a clear idea of what he wants from life and how to achieve it . |
| 21 | Well if that were so my Lord then there would never be any any solicitor 's negligence claims , in which any expert was ever called to give evidence because it 's always going to be eventually a matter of law as to what the defendant 's duty is but what the er what the plaintiff had not said at any stage is that a matter of law is ever going to be admissible and in fact the is Justice our in the course of er er a case in which he , despite expressing reservations about the admissibility of the evidence , plainly admitted it because he was within the course of his judgement . |
| 22 | In the first place , though the sense of want is acute and even painful , yet the mere wanting is felt to be somehow a delight . |
| 23 | This will be shown to be particularly the case in the next chapter on the relationship between catholicism and the Irish constitution . |
| 24 | The data we collected leads inescapably to the conclusion that for most of the time nothing happens at all — this seems to be particularly the case in residential settings ( ibid. , p. 58 ) . |
| 25 | To deal with a pundit one had to be either a sister , senior staff nurse , or a rare fourth-year on nights . |
| 26 | But then I do n't like blood so I would n't want to be either a cook or a surgeon . |
| 27 | Each religion developed its own particular insight , but had to cater for a number of different needs : if you were born in India , for example , you were likely to be either a Buddhist or a Hindu . |
| 28 | In another case the owner was advised by the local newspaper of an impending traffic improvement , which was to be either a bypass or a road widening . |
| 29 | Eliot wrote in 1916 that mythology was ‘ dangerous literary material ’ and had to be either a mythology in which the writer believed or else one in which a people had once believed . |
| 30 | Thus , in health , there does not seem to be either an attenuation of secretory pathways mediating gastric acid secretion or end organ resistance to stimulation . |