Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] to [be] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immediate matters arising from the appointment of Louis Gerstner as the next chairman and chief executive of IBM Corp : Gerstner says he made three IBM executive decisions — all of them undisclosed — during the five-block walk from the Midtown Manhattan Hilton where the announcement of his appointment was made and IBM 's Madison Avenue offices ; and while many say that it has looked to be that way for most of this year , it seems that for a couple of days , IBM really will be leaderless , because John Akers says he will resign at today 's board meeting , and Gerstner is not due to take up his posts until Thursday . |
| 2 | There has got to be some kind of responsibility to deliver what they think they are buying . ’ |
| 3 | Well I just wonder you , there has got to be some kind of relationship between the fact that most people who take drugs live in really run down deprived areas . |
| 4 | We also recognise so to are the workers of County Councils , and District Councils , particularly because the er the government initiatives , one good point to V A T on fuel , and the increasing in in National Insurance Contributions and increases in taxation , so between the two sides has got to be some accommodation , bearing in mind the need for both of us to want to continue to deliver quality services . |
| 5 | ‘ I said when I came back to Williams that it was a two-year plan , so probably if it is going to happen it has got to be this year because of the way it 's been structured . |
| 6 | A lot of modern art has tended to be that way , often abstract art , that people think is meaningless , is in fact full of very serious messages if only people are willing to listen to them . |
| 7 | Despite recognition of the discomfort caused by ventilation and its attendant procedures ( tracheal suction , chest drains , arterial lines etc. ) , there has tended to be some reluctance to prescribe potent analgesics . |
| 8 | ( As long as the heaving green adumbrates the land , as long as time has refused to be some time but always now , as long as the humungus titles have zipped up from the seam between sea and sky , as long … ) |
| 9 | ‘ This venture has proved to be that rarity in Britain , a classical technology transfer from a British university to a British company followed by success , ’ he said . |
| 10 | The phrase represented a manner of thinking about the world very different from that which he had worked out in his own thinking about liberty as perfect obedience to the will of God : an obedience of a will so attuned to the source of order in the universe that there has ceased to be any constraint in obeying . |
| 11 | There does need to be some organisation and structure , teachers do need time to organise their classrooms before the start of school and no one really wants to engage in long discussions when there are children to be settled and registers to be marked . |
| 12 | In the first period , as we have seen in Figure 12.2 , there does appear to be some degree of relationship between unemployment and the rate of price inflation . |
| 13 | My Lords , erm I I think that behind this , there does appear to be some doubt as to the British Transport Police 's position in respect of Rail Track er from the 1st April . |
| 14 | The evidence so far gathered is very inadequate , so we could not be sure , but there does seem to be some tendency to concentrate . |
| 15 | And there does seem to be some speculation about who will now play in goal . |
| 16 | While there is an absence of any major national study comparing completion rates of non-traditional students with those entering on the basis of traditional academic qualifications there does seem to be some evidence that completion rates for non-traditional students are somewhat lower . |
| 17 | However , there does seem to be some consensus of opinion and parallel findings to demonstrate continuity in the area of disorders of conduct ( Robins , 1966 ; Rutter and Madge , 1976 ) . |
| 18 | No doubt this is an over-simplification but there does seem to be some relationship between level of income and concern for ‘ the environment ’ . |
| 19 | I 'm sure Councillor and erm , and certainly there does seem to be more emphasis on helping people with difficult educational disabilities , and those with learning difficulties , but if we could encourage even more , excellent , and I think it 's very important that er , bank agencies er emphasise the fact that it 's training , plus their main aim being er also a qualification , which does help them get , erm jobs . |
| 20 | all the way round , that 's about three times across and it 's got to be that way round , the all the way round , over how far across . |
| 21 | That 's got to be some kind of a nutter . |
| 22 | Curve have n't got time for apathy — there 's got to be some attitude to your music . ’ |
| 23 | So there 's got to be some way round it . ’ |
| 24 | There 's got to be some trust involved . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ There 's got to be some form of addiction there , ’ he acknowledged . |
| 26 | There 's got to be some reason we all drop dead in the end . ’ |
| 27 | There 's got to be some sort of has n't there ? |
| 28 | There 's got to be some resolution , something that breaks the tension . ’ |
| 29 | Well yes , yes in terms it sounds mos most confusing compared with a straightforward business world but if , if , if the campaign are saying that it 's got to be this way for legal reasons they 're not prepared to accept it . |