Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or at least seem to be absent . |
| 2 | ‘ All hell rules over the man who is angry , ’ says the Talmud , and by September 1939 , when Leonard was beginning to come to terms with the thresholds of life 's reality , hell was ruling the world , or at least appeared to be . |
| 3 | And without even waiting to be asked ‘ what 's up ? ’ he laps up the attention . |
| 4 | Going to the shops may be done in such an automatic way as to not seem to be the fulfilment of desire at all . |
| 5 | But because this left it so generalised as to sometimes appear to be saying hardly anything at all , it was open to imperialist take-over by more established , but much more mechanistic learning theories such as behaviourism . |