Example sentences of "to be [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The goal of ‘ achieving wealth ’ , has the objective , ‘ to be achieving an income of £20,000 as head of my own department , within the next three years ’ . |
| 2 | This in an ordinary way would not have mattered , but it mattered in this particular case and mattered quite fatally , because at various stages of the discussion , when we seemed to be reaching an agreement , I pressed Mr Smith about whether there was any likelihood , whatever the agreement was , that it would be acceptable to the entire population of Rhodesia , which the British government had laid down as a precondition . |
| 3 | In times when there is occasion for rejoicing as , for example , in the gathering of a successful harvest , a happy emergence from trouble or natural disaster and on many other occasions there is always to be observed an urge to offer thanks to someone or something . |
| 4 | The length of the queues in Windhoek and Katutura , two of the most densely populated urban areas in Namibia , triggered conjecture that the poll might have to be extended an extra day . |
| 5 | Shortly after this Marty Stone , our second engineer , and I re-enacted the whole thing for the benefit of two Daily Mirror journalists who were supposed to be writing an article about the work of the Cutter Service , but nothing ever came of this . |
| 6 | Naturally , I wanted to see him and to introduce him to my family ; but I also felt that he needed to get out of London from time to time , because he seemed to be assuming an increasing load of public work , as well as public lectures and broadcasts . |
| 7 | There 'd be the most almighty row if we appeared to be sabotaging an Industry Year project simply because this bird is a member of CND . |
| 8 | Cornwall appeared to be enjoying an Indian summer , just like the one Edna had described so many long years ago . |
| 9 | While none of these may suffer from ‘ absolute deprivation ’ ( a term that is anyway difficult to define unless it is meant to refer to circumstances in which people literally have no food , shelter and clothing ) , clearly many are unlikely to be enjoying an ‘ average ’ or ‘ normal ’ standard of living . |
| 10 | He was turning to speak to the other person , who appeared to be wearing an evening gown ; as her hand moved , there was a glint of dress jewellery . |
| 11 | Just as the novelist considered the deconstruction and demythologizing of carefully selected cultural stereotypes to be a politically liberating activity , so , in the same way , he appears to be propagating an idealistic and positivistic view of the literary text which he was so quick to criticize in Sartre 's aesthetics . |
| 12 | To be branded an unfeeling brute reinforced the image he had made for himself of a man who was dog-rough , ‘ a foul beast ’ , unfit for human company , not to be tolerated in civilised drawing rooms . |
| 13 | Of course , Britain 's bosses have to be setting an example and obviously leadership has to emanate from the top , and is very often done by example . |
| 14 | I 'm never never one for for making work but on an a on although this is n't going to be called an annual report for most children it will be an annual event and I do feel quite strongly that for the child to be able to have the opportunity |
| 15 | The jurisdiction existed as an appellate jurisdiction if an uncalled member of an Inn , who used to be called an ‘ inner barrister ’ from the position he occupied on the forms or barrae in the halls of his Inn : see ‘ Two Problems in Legal History ’ by Bolland , 24 L.Q.R. 392 , 399 , was aggrieved when his Inn refused to permit him to be called to the ‘ utter bar : ’ Rex v. Benchers of Gray 's Inn , 1 Doug . |
| 16 | This has been in use in the works office for some time , it was , it used to be called an aide-memoire . |
| 17 | The firm fears that if defendants appeared to be using an APT deliberately to evade justice , this would give the device a bad name . |
| 18 | Now it would seem that they are not only to be denied an increase , but also to be faced with a reduction . |
| 19 | To be told so little — to such an end — and still , finally , to be denied an explanation … |
| 20 | Presumably we would only be in a position to be considering an investigator if both , we had a erm a greater number of complaints from around the Commission coming into York , and i and further members of staff were to leave . |
| 21 | EC Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan is said to be considering an appeal against today 's ruling . |
| 22 | she seems to be struggling an all does n't she ? |
| 23 | Stan Mortensen , Blackpool 's hat-trick scorer in the 1953 FA Cup final win over Bolton , is to be made an honorary freeman of the town . |
| 24 | Still painfully relieved that he was not to be made an unwanted orphan and bundled off to a Home , Frankie left the room without a word . |
| 25 | They may be said to be exercising an administrative function . |
| 26 | I can not see the necessity of the shadow cast by a half-opened drawer in the kitchen table. , It is encouraging to find Fry underlining a point about critical writing — that with a description of a work of art it can be useful to be given an explicit account of how the critic responds . |
| 27 | Those governments that borrow short-term to cover their immediate cash-flow problems , without moving to put their finances on a sound footing , are likely to be given an even harder time by investors and credit-raters alike . |
| 28 | Whereas it would have been possible to ask Harriet Finlay Johnson , ‘ What are you teaching this lesson ? ’ and the answer could easily be something like , ‘ The Spanish Armada ’ , one could not expect to be given an equivalent answer from Peter Slade , Brian Way or the Speech and Drama teachers . |
| 29 | All the fuss is over the fourth charge — should Mosher have published an article in a Taiwan Sunday newspaper condemning Chinese birth-control methods and accompanied by photographs of women 7½ months pregnant and about to be given an abortion ? |
| 30 | County councillors yesterday gave permission for every roundabout to be given an official identity , if possible that of the name already used locally . |