Example sentences of "to be [art] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 British-born speakers tend to use London English most of the time anyway , and there appears to be no requirement to use Creole to respond to Creole utterances , at least from adults :
2 There seemed to be no way to ensure that the same tragedy would not be replayed . ’
3 There was supposed to be no way to get at the bastard .
4 Amongst the working classes in this area , there seems to be no stigma attaching to a woman with a child she does not even know the father of ! ’
5 There seemed to be no consideration given as to how a management strategy would serve the processes desired , little attempt to anticipate possible outcomes or to arrange for specific progress points when reviews could be undertaken , nor to establish criteria against which a programme 's effectiveness would ultimately be evaluated .
6 Though there appears to be no evidence to support Husameddin " s assertion that Molla Fenari actually went in company with Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey , the fact that the former dedicated his commentary on the to the latter and praises him fulsomely in the preface suggests a close connection between the two and is a further indication that it was during Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey 's rule ( 1402–19 , 1421–3 ) that Molla Fenari 's sojourn in Karaman occurred .
7 It will be shown in a later chapter that there seems to be no evidence to indicate that he held that post before holding the kazaskerlik , while there is positive evidence that he held it after holding the kazaskerlik .
8 Strangely , the tracks came directly from the lough ; there seemed to be no tracks going into the lough .
9 Cruel shook up , she is now , like as you do n't need to be no doctor to see , but she were n't shook up when she got a job to do ! ’
10 To it 's even worse I mean there , there does n't even seem to be a government in the there 's just a police force and an army and no one making political decisions , so it 's a peculiarity of recent political philosophy there seems to be no room left for the democratic process to do much apart from administer , so the democracy is given a very minor role .
11 In primary and early secondary school there may appear to be no harm done , but when pupils get older and disaffected with school , their teachers become part of ‘ the system ’ .
12 There was to be no arrangement made , then .
13 Yet , looking down today from these Wessex Heights , there seems to be no reason to fear for the future of this supremely beautiful landscape .
14 There appeared to be no reason to upset long-established routines in this respect .
15 But the fact remains that Panaetius lived for some time in Rome , as the Index Stoicorum Herculanensis , an excellent source , states ( 73 ) ; and there seems to be no reason to doubt the statement of Cicero in Pro Murena that he was the guest of Scipio ( 31.56 ) .
16 On the basis of the Karamanid document mentioned above , one would necessarily question Husameddin 's dating of the appointment , but there seems to be no reason to doubt the consensus of the early sources on the fact of it .
17 While there seems to be no reason to doubt the account to this point in Molla Yegan 's career , a question is raised about Taskopruzade 's statement that he did not again hold office by a note of Molla Yegan 's ( the only example I have found of his signature ) appearing on a page of the dated 839/1435–6 , of Isa Bey , the son of Bayezid Pasa , containing the signatures of a number of notable scholars of the fifteenth century : the page , which has been reproduced in facsimile by Unver , seems indeed almost to have become an autograph book for leading scholars of the period .
18 Where a local authority has initiated the proceedings there seems to be no reason to approach the question of costs in any special way .
19 The stocking density limit on sheep ( 6 per hectare ) above which no further HLCAs are paid should be retained ; there appears to be no reason to alter the existing lack of any stocking density maximum for cattle .
20 A recent analysis of such practices in The Lancet concluded that ‘ there seems to be no reason to exclude older women from regular screening for cancer of the cervix .
21 Because of Ceausescu 's insistence that the entire population is responsible for national defence , there is seen to be no need to maintain professional and well-trained armed soldiers .
22 Yes , there was to be no Cup upset this afternoon as Hellenic League leaders Milton United overcame their Reading Senior League opponents at Fairmile in the Berks and Bucks Intermediate Cup fourth round .
23 One prisoner , condemned to transportation , found there to be no ship leaving for Botany Bay in the near future .
24 Happily carrying on doing that it 's not going to be every enquiry has to do that .
25 Why was there thought to be a factory called Bramble in Newcastle ?
26 Our belief is that if there is any change it is likely to be a change requiring a certain proportion of the grant to be spent in the domiciliary day care area rather than the residential area to enforce this wish of developing those sort of services .
27 You would have to be a fool to kick to touch from defence unless there is a gale blowing .
28 She obviously had not noticed anything out of the ordinary , and Dorothy told herself not to be a fool imagining things .
29 But a football insider said : ‘ You do n't have to be a mastermind to work out the reason . ’
30 The wartime government had promised the troops they would return to ‘ homes fit for heroes to live in ’ , but the sick joke was that you had to be a hero to survive in them .
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