Sentence examples for ostensibly to be from inspiring English sources

Whatever his reasons, they have produced an extraordinary outcome: a discretionary by-election, triggered by a sitting MP, ostensibly to be fought over a single issue.

There are pictures of them in New York; Clyde had come along ostensibly to be her manager, although he was jealous of her talent and was always getting in the way.

"In the end," he said as he was leaving, ostensibly to "be alone" but actually, as I soon discovered, to join the young art critic on Fire Island, "our relationship revolves around you". "That's not true!" I wept.

Housing associations will be effectively forced to sell their (social) housing stock while councils will, similarly, have to offload high-value properties – ostensibly to be able to replace homes sold by the associations.

The lover's quarry, in that work, is ostensibly to be sought in the demimonde (i.e., among women on the fringes of respectable society who are supported by wealthy lovers), and Ovid explicitly disclaims the intention of teaching adultery; but all of his teaching could in fact be applied to the seduction of married women.

The stabbing machine — that's what they call it; one senses an underdeveloped creative drive — is ostensibly to be used by forensic investigators who need to know what kind of knife was used in a crime.

The character of Kemp is ostensibly meant to be darkly amusing in his literate peevishness.

Those three pitchers, with Phil Hughes and Joba Chamberlain, will ostensibly compete to be the fifth starter.

The Romney campaign itself, which is running state-specific spots in those states it ostensibly considers to be the most in play, left Michigan off that list.

Super PACs and other groups are ostensibly supposed to be independent from the candidates they support.

Tom Cruise appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live Friday night and the two commenced what ostensibly was to be a cooking demo for Cruise's spaghetti carbonara.