Example sentences of "what [verb] to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I accept that this is quite a basic and simplistic way of expressing what has to be a deep and complex theory , but the story of Martin may provide more clues . |
| 2 | ‘ IF you liked Planes , Trains and Automobiles — you 'll love this , ’ says the cover of what has to be the most banal video of the month . |
| 3 | It has to be directed at providing jobs , for that is one of the two keys in what needs to be a two-pronged attack on the recession . |
| 4 | But the serious training still takes priority , as the team prepares for what needs to be a better season than last . |
| 5 | Just as the 2lst century requires a more diffused and safer balance of interest in what needs to be an increasingly multilateral global village , there is a risk of economic , institutional and political power being centralised in the European Community , and that a new bout of economic empire-building may occur . |
| 6 | Once again the ground has ruined what promised to be a good contest and only four of the 15 entries go to post . |
| 7 | Once again the ground has ruined what promised to be a good contest and only four of the 15 entries go to post . |
| 8 | ‘ But I am very disappointed as I was looking forward to going to the West Indies and seeing what promised to be a great series . ’ |
| 9 | On the first occasion , I remembered , I had found a highly personable stray kitten and before the week was up had delivered it to what promised to be a good new home adjacent to that jokey castle . |
| 10 | A refugee from the Colette-Willy ménage of the early nineteen hundreds , from what promised to be a long stint of sterile work as Willy 's secretary and as yet another among the throng of that extraordinary man 's unacknowledged collaborators , the young Marcel Boulestin fled the malicious gossip , the dramas and scandals in which these two now legendary figures were for ever involving each other and their friends . |
| 11 | Caught in what promised to be a whirlpool of conflicting dogmatic beliefs , Eric , who did n't care either way so long as I was happy , went off to see Mgr O'Flaherty , a well-known priest who had given help and shelter to large numbers of escaping prisoners-of-war and was now an important figure in the Holy Office . |
| 12 | The first of what promised to be a long series of show trials of former senior officials of the ousted Ceausescu regime ended on Feb. 2 when a military tribunal in Bucharest found Emil Bobu , Manea Manescu , Ion Dinca and Tudor Postelnicu guilty of " co-authorship of genocide " in connection with the killing of demonstrators in Timisoara , Bucharest and elsewhere at the start of the December 1989 revolution [ see pp. 37104-05 ] . |
| 13 | On the contrary , their objective was not to overthrow the Franco regime but to adapt it to meet the demands of what promised to be a more international future . |
| 14 | The Alpine snows closed over his militant steps , and the sinners he had excommunicated for one reason or another turned their thoughts from irregular union or simony , if they had ever been on them , and peered into the mists of what promised to be a very long vacancy . |
| 15 | I 'm told , though , that she went with some relief — because she would n't be around to witness what promised to be the ghastly ignominy of election day . |
| 16 | The Agreement provided for massive UN involvement , and work had already started on raising finance from donor countries for what promised to be the UN 's most substantial peacekeeping operation ; some estimates put the cost at up to US$2,000 million . |
| 17 | Several species have what looks to be a cut-water on the keel of the shell and may even have sailed like galleons across the surface of the prehistoric oceans . |
| 18 | Increasingly , the involvement of organisms , especially microorganisms , in mediating these processes has become apparent , and Widdel and colleagues ( page 834 of this issue ) now come up with what looks to be a particularly remarkable example . |
| 19 | We called Aries Research Inc , makers of what looks to be the first HyperSparc-based systems ( UX No 426 ) Marixx.ds and Marixx.dt , Aries Technology . |
| 20 | The Madeiran does , however , excel at parking his car in what looks to be an impossible place . |
| 21 | This means that what appear to be a number of completely different particles at low energies are in fact found to be all the same type of particle , only in different states . |
| 22 | Section 22 and s23 of the Arbitration Act 1950 preserve the right to apply to the court to set aside an award on the ground of misconduct by the arbitrator : misconduct sometimes amounts to what appear to be no more than minor procedural solecisms . |
| 23 | For example , if one examines the number of people still at home at one year by whether or not they possessed what appear to be the three key traits of living alone ; not having an informal carer who can cope with all necessary care ; and having a high OBS score ( eight out of ten or more ) , then |
| 24 | Mary Heilman has lately been setting herself the task of uniting the eccentric spaces resulting from what appear to be the merging of two or more rectangular canvases . |
| 25 | The procedure in each case will be to begin with some general first impression of the passage ; and then to make selective use of the checklist in order to bring to the attention what appear to be the most significant style markers of each . |
| 26 | To tackle the poem 's lexicon , for the purposes of translation , is always to be brought up short by what appear to be the simplest words and expressions . |
| 27 | At the end , the traitor of the English clan hurled his credit cards at his parents ’ grave in what seemed to be a symbol for throwing bad money after good . |
| 28 | I went into the bedroom where Alison was lying down in what seemed to be a state of shock . |
| 29 | She came of a family whose heads felt cold in the night ( their father had worn a nightcap ) and now she rose to a sitting position looking , in the gloom , like some eastern potentate , her beautiful nose and high forehead all surmounted by what seemed to be a turban but was actually some sort of woolly garment skilfully disposed about her head . |
| 30 | Next came a pair of thick socks wrinkling about the ankles , and then what seemed to be a pair of men 's shoes . |