Example sentences of "it to [be] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ The closest thing that I can compare it to is the film . |
| 2 | In the early part of this century the mountain had a sinister reputation , and Ewen MacAskill found it to be no pushover . |
| 3 | Since then , however , two further studies have shown it to be no better than placebo and inferior to 5-ASA . |
| 4 | I mean , I have n't done a detailed survey on anything , but I was pleasantly surprised by what I saw when I went in there , and I must say , I went there expecting it to be no more than a garden hut . |
| 5 | Or is it to be a full-length ballet with a maximum use of dancers ? |
| 6 | But since Crime and Punishment encompasses the drinking as well as the confessional theme , we can approach Dostoevsky 's abiding human question — what is it to be a man ? — also by way of the minuscule Drunks fragment : |
| 7 | I take it to be a product of the myth I described above : ‘ I am fighting against the entrenched forces of insular stupidity , and I call upon the French to aid me ! ’ |
| 8 | He added : ‘ This will be the pattern for future similar investments , and because it is a welding together of all those strands of interest which the Prince of Wales has , we consider it to be a very exciting new venture . ’ |
| 9 | This sense of deprivation has spilled over into civil conflict or war a sufficient number of times for it to be a continuing threat , or an on-going reality as in Chad , Sudan , Ethiopia , Burundi , Uganda and Somalia . |
| 10 | Although it can take a panoply of four-dimensional shapes , Dr Tipler prefers it to be a single point ; in the manner of the 20th-century Catholic evolutionist and mystic , Teilhard de Chardin , he calls it the omega point . |
| 11 | I could n't help but think he wanted it to be a theme park . |
| 12 | She said nothing to her family , she wanted it to be a surprise . |
| 13 | Yet , during the late 1930s , Labour 's clear hostility towards European fascism , and its support of the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War confirmed it to be a party which was prepared to face up to fascism . |
| 14 | She half-expected it to be a beautiful sight , the white-furred blocks crumbling and cracking like Arctic floes under the August sun . |
| 15 | Richard found it to be a ‘ town … full of temptations ’ . |
| 16 | Not that I mean it to be a breathless race , but rather that I somehow do n't see life in an ordinary manner , not even this sere and monotonous existence in Africa ; granted , it browns me off sometimes , but I do pretty well on the whole ; and if I can still enjoy this incredibly austere and disciplined life , how much more shall we not enjoy life together ? |
| 17 | The only proper way to acknowledge the arbitrator 's authority is to take it to be a reason for action which replaces the reasons on the basis of which he was meant to decide . |
| 18 | It is the first of this kind of thing that I have organised and I would like it to be a success . |
| 19 | ‘ And what is it to be a Peruvian ? ’ |
| 20 | Perhaps the accidental resemblance of a video in its box to a book in its dust-jacket will lead a child to pick up a book by mistake , thinking it to be a video , and start reading . |
| 21 | Having lavished so much time , money and effort on their house , you might expect it to be a work of art — which , as Peter modestly admits , ‘ It is . ’ |
| 22 | Jeffrey 's family and supporters suspected it to be a plot hatched by Captain Lake and his friends . |
| 23 | No longer was it to be a question of careful , rational long-term planning of public expenditure . |
| 24 | Its breed society considers it to be a dual-purpose type , though it is rather slow-maturing for beef . |
| 25 | Your job , however , is to mend any plausible cracks you observe — to do a better survey , measuring and controlling important new variables — not to walk away from the edifice declaring it to be a hazard . |
| 26 | I have in my possession the OTO 's own list of ‘ Administrative and governmental offices and official bodies as of 5/ 15/87 ’ showing it to be a worldwide network of undercover occultism . |
| 27 | The principal difficulty is that it is quite clear that the texts of the classical jurists have not been left as they were written ; and since it is clear that Justinian was keen on enforcement in all circumstances , it is hard to decide whether we should take all reference to it to be a product of his ardour , or the more extreme cases of public interest to be acceptable classical examples . |
| 28 | I found it to be a splendid panegyric on the peaceful uses of atomic energy , though to present a history of nuclear power without even mentioning the existence of hydrogen bombs , may be thought by some to overdo the euphoria . |
| 29 | However , referee Ford judged it to be a yellow card offence and the free-kick came to nothing . |
| 30 | A casual visitor might suppose it to be a temple dedicated to the genius of seediness . |