Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [verb] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is much less systematic than the others described above , and has little claim to be representative at all . |
| 2 | We ride a long way and in late afternoon ( sun time rather than clock time , which has long ceased to be important to us ) we stop for coffee so that Odd-Knut can work out a route . |
| 3 | Mr Kohl 's glossy coating of the bitter pill of economic union undoubtedly won him votes , but the coating has already proved to be thin . |
| 4 | To apply these characteristics as the criterion for dismissal or refusal to employ is to apply a gender-based criterion , which the majority of the House of Lords has already held to be unlawful direct discrimination in James v Eastleigh Borough Council [ 1990 ] 2 AC 751 . |
| 5 | Mr Bell , aged 39 , of Oakley Gardens , West Auckland , said he has always tried to be polite during his 17 years as a driver . |
| 6 | Although their roles are less well known , complex I subunits also appear to be involved in the functioning of this complex . |
| 7 | Another reason why language teaching has traditionally tended to be atomistic and bottom-up is that it has followed the historical development and procedures of linguistics . |
| 8 | This section on internal buildings has necessarily covered a considerable amount of very detailed information and has inevitably had to be selective . |
| 9 | This would wreck the sense of the entire poem : Wordsworth tried to make it clear that ‘ the gleam ’ refers to an illusion which the poet has now seen to be wrong . |
| 10 | McCarley and Hobson , in an analysis of Freud 's psychological theory , have pointed out how deeply was his psychology informed by these neurological assumptions , which subsequent science has frequently shown to be wrong . |
| 11 | Particularly with the the s the strong belief that the flats were going to come down which has subsequently proved to be true . |
| 12 | But until this has actually proved to be possible — and Jakobson would have denied that it is — it seems reasonable to accept that both kinds of equivalence constitute a distinguishing feature , if not of all poetic language , at least of a great deal of it . |
| 13 | The aristocracy , for its part , has never needed to be convinced of the importance of not working . |
| 14 | A general amnesty for the 4,000-5,000 Stasi spies still thought to be active in West Germany , originally approved by the West German Cabinet on Aug. 31 and then delayed , had not taken place as of late October 1990 . |
| 15 | There does indeed seem to be little advantage in damaging the coat of modern varieties of sweet peas . |
| 16 | Continental basins generally seem to be long-lived features with a subsidence history often extending over a period of 100 Ma or more . |
| 17 | But either way , he 's still got to be ill . |