Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] be [pron] [adj] " in BNC.

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1	‘ There has come to be something shocking in the discovery that a seeming castle is only a cowshed .
2	‘ It was a good shot but then it has got to be something special to beat Woods — he is such a good goalkeeper . ’
3	‘ It used to be really good for scarce reedbed species but it is so dry now its basic birds are tawny owl and whitethroat and there has got to be something wrong with that .
4	‘ Sybil was killed with a hammer ? ’ of course , it would have had to be something heavy to cause those dreadful injuries .
5	It becomes evident that Julian is a representative figure of the writer when he decides to write a novel ( 82 ) , and Decibel that of the oral media when she declares writing to be her natural enemy ( 186 ) .
6	But there does appear to be something distinctive about language .
7	If there does appear to be something interesting going on , there are several useful questions that can be asked next :
8	Indeed , it was the ‘ anti-social ’ focus of the obscenity test which had proved to be its singular virtue , since when juries drew the line , they did so on grounds of morals , not manners .
9	During the visit , she had appeared to be her old vivacious self , laughing and joking , showing off the baby and exchanging news .
10	There does seem to be something objective about the way mankind orders the world .
11	Tomorrow Oxford United will officially reveal who they 've chosen to be their new manager .
12	Hang on there 's got ta be something wrong there , that means I 'm only gon na need a box at the most , does n't it , hang on , let's write it out
13	thinking , you know , this 'll be it 's got ta be something special but it really was n't .
14	See the this th the there 's got to be summat wrong .
15	It 's got to be something real .
16	It 's got to be something natural .
17	But while externally unchanged they have ceased to be our central ‘ collective representations ’ .

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