Example sentences of "to [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Young Charles Frederick , photographed while still in his teens , seems generally ill-at-ease as he poses in what appears to be a borrowed long coat . |
| 32 | She was wearing what appeared to be a borrowed jacket in place of her own heavy overcoat and shawl , something light enough to allow her to carry on even though the sun might go behind a cloud every now and again . |
| 33 | The close correlation between the data obtained from these two sources suggests that recall error is unlikely to be a confounding factor . |
| 34 | Thus a familial component is unlikely to be a confounding variable between gestational age and wheeze in children . |
| 35 | The Colonial Office Circular of 1909 to its employees on ‘ immoral relations with native women , is shown to be a crucial development which involved ‘ a massive and indeed revolutionary intrusion of public authority into the private lives of official classes overseas ’ . |
| 36 | For the management careers of both Dave Stringer and Malcolm Crosby , this is likely to be a crucial semi-final . |
| 37 | According to Padayachee , ‘ 1991 is going to be a crucial year . |
| 38 | He got one back on us at the 15th to put him three shots behind again , so the 17th was going to be a crucial hole . |
| 39 | In the period of transition that historians call the Axial Age ( 800–200 BCE ) , the great confessional faiths developed which have continued to be a crucial influence in the consciousness of the people of each region : in China Lao Tsu developed Taoism , in India , Hinduism and Buddhism reformed the primitive pagan vision and made it a means of analysing the self ; in the Middle East the monotheistic faiths analysed history and the Greek rationalists of Athens analysed the cosmos to find an ultimate meaning and significance in the apparently random flux of life . |
| 40 | In his classic book The Prophets , Abraham Heschel has shown that Amos , Hosea , Jeremiah and Isaiah all considered their own input to be a crucial part of their message . |
| 41 | The notion of identity and of healthy identity stemming from knowledge of and contact with one 's family of origin seems to be a crucial concept . |
| 42 | Our Gulf experience showed this to be a crucial requirement . |
| 43 | In the first place , they had lent vital paramilitary support to the rising and continued to be a crucial source of committed volunteers on the battle fronts . |
| 44 | ‘ We are also due to have talks with Colwyn Borough Council about a possible ground sharing deal with Colwyn Bay FC at Llanelian Road so it 's going to be a crucial week for the club , ’ added Daley . |
| 45 | Thomas Cook , the travel agency chain which has said it will tender for 12.5 per cent of Owners stock at 150p if the bid fails , moved into the market to pick up what may prove to be a crucial 8.4 per cent stake in Owners . |
| 46 | ‘ It 's going to be a terrible shock ! ’ |
| 47 | It was going to be a terrible morning . |
| 48 | ‘ Oh God , it 's going to be a terrible place ! ’ cries Howard to his fellow-guests around the Chases ' dinner table , holding his head and rocking it from side to side in humorous despair . |
| 49 | Oh God — it was going to be a terrible winter . |
| 50 | The pagan , who with his tattoos and shrunken heads appears to be a terrible savage in the beginning , turns out to be the most noble character in the novel . |
| 51 | Oh it seemed to be a terrible drive . |
| 52 | from my vantage point I saw nothing in the few seconds between the County Inspector 's announcement to have incited what appeared to be a concerted start by the police . |
| 53 | There needs to be a concerted and sustained campaign to open up and maintain the network , and CCW can , and is , doing much to make this happen . |
| 54 | At least 17 bombs exploded in Manila , the capital , in the last two weeks of August in what appeared to be a concerted destabilization campaign by dissident right-wing elements within the military . |
| 55 | In what appeared to be a concerted campaign by the criminal justice authorities to prevent a fourth acquittal , Gotti 's previously successful defence lawyer was prohibited from representing his client on the grounds that he was peripherally involved in some of the evidence to be presented by the prosecution . |
| 56 | These amounted to £120,000 in last November 's Canadian Masters and , under its partnership arrangement for overseas events with Mark McCormack 's International Management Group , £100,000 from last February 's European Open in Deauville and what seems certain to be a substantial sum from August 's Hong Kong Open . |
| 57 | Death ‘ But it is well known there needs to be a substantial realignment of production capacity . ’ |
| 58 | There needs to be a substantial change in government policy towards service organisations . |
| 59 | Second , there needs to be a substantial shift in primary education from judgements of quality based on visual cues to one based on engagement with what and how children learn . |
| 60 | There has to be a substantial increase either in income tax or in VAT to pay for the Labour party 's spending plans . |