Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should my hon. Friend happen to be in the Cleveland area , I strongly urge her to go to the South Cleveland hospital to see the excellent work being undertaken there with a bone densitometer . |
| 2 | But that account of my overall argument needs to be qualified in one very major respect . |
| 3 | My personal view tended to be that if you approached Mains in a straightforward way and asked the straight question then you got the straight and honest answer . |
| 4 | The Christian faith teaches that all my human nature needs to be redeemed by Christ . |
| 5 | After root canal treatment , my three-tooth bridge has to be replaced by two new crowns , plus a plate with one false tooth at a charge of £200 — the maximum under the NHS for one course of treatment . |
| 6 | Almost every part of my infuriating body seemed to be nagging at me for some sort of attention . |
| 7 | Do you know , not a single rotten member of my miserable household appeared to be in the least little bit aware of the joyful nature of the dawn which I gaily urged them to acclaim . |
| 8 | My whole body seems to be on fire . |
| 9 | The content of my original disposition seems to be determined by the way I now find myself driven to go on , rather than vice versa . |
| 10 | Their painted eyes seemed to be full of a malignant resentment , as if they 'd once been living horses that had been turned to wood by an enchantment . |
| 11 | Most of their economic activities tend to be relatively labour intensive and could be assisted to become more labour retaining , helping to decrease the movement of people to industrial areas . |
| 12 | No longer do they panic at the sound of a boat engine , and slap their drowsy pups awake to be hustled into the comparative safety of the sea . |
| 13 | But by the time their financial worries were over their political options seemed to be over too ; starting new relationships looked easier than the tortuous process of political realignment . |
| 14 | The Chihuahua strained on its narrow leather lead to be clear of the shooting , and the shouting , and the crying of the little girls . |
| 15 | A far distant bell in her exhausted mind seemed to be ringing some kind of warning . |
| 16 | By now it must have been obvious to the Romans that the power and authority of the Druids was in the ascendancy and that sooner or later their inimical influence had to be removed . |
| 17 | A girl had been murdered and their sole concern seemed to be its effect on their own convenience . |
| 18 | Its total energy seemed to be expended on the collection of taxes , and like Yakovlev himself , it had no interest in the mainsprings of peasant culture . |
| 19 | Her social life seemed to be quite full , and she had gone out with a young man on a couple of occasions . |
| 20 | She might have done it in private — she is fun and without question , a little flirtatious — — but Diana had understood from the start that her public image had to be beyond reproach , and it always had been . |
| 21 | The paper was to return to the theme throughout the year , but its early outrage began to be accompanied by a tone verging on envy . |
| 22 | Only in recent years , due to patient work , is its early form beginning to be discernible . |
| 23 | Green spaces in and around London are under constant threat from developers and difficult decisions about their future use have to be faced by public authorities . |
| 24 | Already her entire body seemed to be turning to fire and ice , and it was all she could do not to let her trembling knees fold , collapsing her at his feet like a rag doll — which was exactly where he probably imagined she should be . |
| 25 | Battered and bruised — the brutal attack on Hilda Jones left her with such serious wounds to her face , that her left eye had to be removed . |
| 26 | Its functional significance has to be examined in the context of its importance for the ‘ non-organized ’ masses , whose image of Hitler has been the central concern of this work , for the Party faithful , and for the Nazi and non-Nazi élites . |
| 27 | When two bodies attempt to exist within the same sub-space their functional association needs to be checked . |
| 28 | And some of its basic assumptions seem to be confirmed by casual observations of the problems which legislatures have in performing one of their traditional functions . |
| 29 | Its indirect effect remains to be seen . |
| 30 | Second , they often live some distance from the black communities and so their black children tend to be socially isolated from immediate relatives and from other black people . |