Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [vb base] [prep] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My houses have to be about the right thing , ’ he told Endill . |
| 2 | it 'll be back again Mind you , I feel it I mean I know at the moment it 's it 's me I my elbows in the morning I ca n't hardly move them when I wake up in the morning because I get that far my arms have to be outside the bed and our bedroom 's that cold |
| 3 | ‘ My friends tend to be on the right hand side , as it were , but we shall be impartial . ’ |
| 4 | Because grammatical elements typically need to have the capacity to combine normally with semantically very various roots , their meanings tend to be of a very general sort : the notion of past tense , for instance , can combine without anomaly with virtually any conceivable verbal notion . |
| 5 | This takes a bit of practice and does not work well if you hands tend to be on the clammy side ! |
| 6 | His signs have to be of a special kind , directed at non-participants in the fiction . |
| 7 | All his contacts seem to be within the Coptic community . |
| 8 | If we are to understand the philosophical assumptions that motivate individualism , we must ask what individuals need to be like for their causal powers to exhaust the causal powers of groups , and for the characteristics of groups to be explicable in terms of the characteristics of individuals . |
| 9 | I 'm not worn no make-up for ages , 'cos me eyes seem to be like , itching all of a sudden . |
| 10 | ‘ MOST OF your articles seem to be about very physical hobbies , would you be interested in hearing about one that is n't ? ’ asked Rosemary Gardner who works in Harwell 's Market Intelligence Service , part of Business Strategy Unit . |
| 11 | Achieving high standards is something Eleanor is conscious of , ‘ A number of our customers are Hotel Inspectors for the Scottish Board so we are doubly aware that our standards have to be of the highest and we work very hard to achieve this . ’ |