Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The testator 's intention once again appears to be that his daughter 's whole estate should devolve according to the rules of intestacy , and so end in her brother 's eager hands . |
| 2 | I thought they all be brilliant , but they were utter shite , so I thought to myself : ‘ There 's a great talent here just waiting to be discovered ! ’ ’ |
| 3 | Since the Secret Committee on the Peasant Question no longer had to be secret it was renamed the " Main " Committee in January 1858 . |
| 4 | And now the rains had really come , so heavy and persistent that even the village rain-maker no longer claimed to be able to intervene . |
| 5 | It 's only fair that you should know that the sow very often has to be slaughtered . " |
| 6 | In The Act of Reading , Wolfgang Iser argues that the literary work should be understood as a means of communication rather than as a representation of the world : ‘ It is a vital feature of literary texts that they do not lose their ability to communicate ; indeed , many of them can still speak even when their message has long since passed into history and their meaning no longer seems to be of importance ’ ( 1978:13 ) . |
| 7 | Digital Equipment Corp chief executive Robert Palmer expects to see some ‘ modest reductions ’ in the company 's workforce next fiscal , adding that the company could conceivably downsize to 85,000 to 90,000 employees — but ‘ The emphasis right now has to be on growing the business ; ’ DEC now employs some 98,000 , down from 137,000 at peak . |
| 8 | What is in question is the comfortable argument that socially acceptable forms of work organisation always just happen to be those that are the most efficient . |
| 9 | The improvements to be attained by extending the lexicon further also appear to be minimal . |
| 10 | The local emphasis more often needs to be on the candidate , getting his name , face , personality and position known in the community and introducing him to key groups of people . |
| 11 | But wordings which did not take the shape of a request also soon came to be accepted . |
| 12 | I find it thoroughly fascinating , but I am sorry to say that as much as I enjoy your magazine there never seems to be much advice or any articles for that matter , for women like me . |
| 13 | Yet more paradoxically , in a book where the mystery has , so to speak , been given away from the start there still has to be " fair play " . |
| 14 | With the advent of agricultural owner-occupancy in the years after the Second World War and the departure of the landlords or their factors , their authority no longer had to be sought . |
| 15 | With either type , you may find a 50mm socket , into which a suitably-sized boss connector or adaptor is welded to take a solvent-welded or push-fit pipe , or a push-fit or compression fitting which takes a branch pipe directly so needs to be the correct size . |
| 16 | Significant reserves of gas almost certainly remain to be discovered in the Zechstein , particularly in onshore areas of the U.K. and Denmark . |
| 17 | The Headmaster no longer had to be a clergyman ( though Gurney in fact became a deacon in 1848 and was eventually ordained in 1853 ) . |
| 18 | Four years later , the white carpets had turned grey ; the leather-look upholstery no longer pretended to be anything other than plastic ; and the electronic gadgetry had been sold . |
| 19 | There came a stage when the songwriter no longer wanted to be bound by the agreement so he sought a declaration that it was contrary to public policy and therefore unenforceable . |
| 20 | One immediate result of growing numbers and growing prosperity was that Lanfranc 's church very soon needed to be enlarged . |
| 21 | The stars of the show here just have to be the aged scratchplate , covers and knobs that I mentioned earlier . |
| 22 | So Spenser wrote to Sir Walter Ralegh in a letter almost certainly designed to be printed with the poem . |
| 23 | After six weeks Moz began to mellow , and the headstall no longer had to be kept on him . |
| 24 | A television repairer no longer needs to be a specialist in one particular brand . |
| 25 | There is a famous line by another Irishman , Yeates , a line too often thought to be transparent ‘ Romantic Ireland 's dead and gone ’ . |
| 26 | But in some odd way the decision no longer seemed to be in his hands . |
| 27 | Unfortunately it is an extremely time-consuming process and at the time of the SEA much yet remained to be done before all the products that needed to be dealt with had in fact been covered . |
| 28 | ‘ There are bound to be price increases next year so now has to be the best time to buy . ’ |
| 29 | As a result the market structure very often ceased to be purely competitive , becoming monopolistic or oligopolistic . |
| 30 | On the contrary , it was precisely the excessive femininity , laid on with a trowel as it were , that created the effect of someone pretending to be a woman , someone in fact rather desperately hoping to be taken for one . |