Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [adv] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | All through my childhood , my body always seemed to be going numb . |
| 2 | Both my life and my salary now have to be really well planned . |
| 3 | Despite all my hard work , my son still wants to be a train driver and my daughter a nurse . |
| 4 | Benjamin and Elizabeth and their family belonged , in effect , to what we might choose to call the ‘ comfortable working class ’ ; they benefited from the general rise in Britain 's prosperity in Victorian times — cheaper food and clothing , better sanitation , faster transport , more substantial housing — but their money still had to be earned , had to be worked for . |
| 5 | Her work also began to be recognized by the male-dominated science community , although attempts to join their establishments did not go unopposed . |
| 6 | It is obvious that , not only is it necessary for students with disabilities to have reasonable transport , but that their transport often has to be specially adapted . |
| 7 | The best explanation of their incompatibility still seems to be Mommsen 's : divus Marcus is a later gloss . |
| 8 | Rainbow and Clint ( OK , her name now appears to be Annie ; that 's all we know so far ) are getting on a treat . |
| 9 | We can now not only see why in such sentences one feels an implicit predication with respect to a support but also get a clearer view of why to is used before the infinitive : its role here seems to be simply that of indicating that the infinitive 's support is situated in time before the actualization of the infinitive 's event . |
| 10 | Shiona held her for a moment , her anger instantly vanishing to be replaced by a warm , maternal well of love . |
| 11 | But their significance also needs to be grasped with respect to the operations of splitting , desire , fantasy , pleasure and paranoia which are deeply implicated in racist discourses , and which may inherently produce dualities and ambivalences in racialized encounters between selves and others . |
| 12 | The only excitement in her life now seemed to be the exchange of clothes for hats by Mrs Bretton-Fawcett . |
| 13 | Both dogs ' perception of their status therefore had to be redefined . |
| 14 | His campaign now seems to be down to its last card — to brand Mr Da Silva as a dangerous radical who is bent on introducing Stalinist communism into Brazil . |
| 15 | His music often appears to be that of gesture rather than thought , he says , but only superficially . |
| 16 | The dust allergy means that Will has to be bedded on paper , and his hay always has to be soaked . |
| 17 | Speedy could his goal now prove to be the winner ? |
| 18 | No wonder Peter lacked confidence and spent all his time merely trying to be amusing in the face of Marc 's uncompromising thirst for excellence ! |
| 19 | Now his view obviously has to be seriously considered put forward , as it is , by a leader who has the support , when he was elected , of ninety percent of the Party , including ninety percent of the unions . |
| 20 | His speech today promises to be one of the most crucial of his nine-month-old presidency . |
| 21 | Equally , your murder still needs to be , in so far as you can contrive it without becoming ridiculous , attention-grabbing . |
| 22 | Your pond only has to be large enough to catch the returning water . |
| 23 | Knowing our love just has to be . |
| 24 | The database will grow in size automatically as necessary but the data transfer times will increase if your database continually requires to be extended . |
| 25 | But our target really has to be Europe . |