Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [prep] [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nut appears to be plastic and , if I were to be really picky , has been cut a hair on the high side . |
| 2 | After the lecture there were tea and refreshments and it was not until fairly late that I rang Emily just to say Hello , and how sorry I was to be too busy to get over to the house to see her this trip . |
| 3 | She needed a plan of action , she decided as she began the task of stripping several layers of wallpaper from the walls — a concerted campaign to protect the club , and if she were to be painfully honest , herself , from the marauding hands of the so-called Midnight Raider . |
| 4 | This question needs to be tackled if we are to be reasonably certain that observed variation reflects a speaker 's norm rather than random fluctuation in the data . |
| 5 | Conference believes that if we are to be truly representative , with full democratic involvement within the movement , then the T U C should allow this conference the right to send two motions and delegates to the T U C Congress each year . |
| 6 | If we are to be more specific , we must compare one particular type of indirect tax system with one particular type of direct tax system . |
| 7 | If we were to be totally cynical , we would say it lets Darlington MP Michael Fallon off a nasty hook . |
| 8 | ‘ The Pakistan bowlers have added a new dimension to bowling — one that needs to be carefully noted by other countries if they are to be equally successful swingers of the old ball . ’ |
| 9 | Informal groups should be organized on the basis of free self-expression if they are to be most helpful . |
| 10 | Children are more likely to obtain jobs in the class bracket of their fathers than they are to be socially mobile . |
| 11 | Indeed , if performance criteria are to be national , if they are to have currency throughout the system , and if they are to be as detailed and specific as the proponents of criterion-referenced testing insist , then this reform presages central intervention in the school curriculum of a most emphatic kind . |
| 12 | The word ‘ strategy ’ , or indeed , ‘ management ’ , for example , implies that choices are available ; and choices , if they are to be rationally defensible , must be made by reference to known and accepted principles . |
| 13 | As with the Merseyside Task Force , they were to be primarily concerned with project development and not with issues of strategy . |
| 14 | But if the Conservative Party thought that it was cornering the market in citizenship , they were to be quickly disillusioned . |
| 15 | Part of the difficulty with the image came from the noisy fears of the critics , especially those who insisted that comprehensive schools would , if they were to be as good as grammar schools , have to be huge . |
| 16 | He said it 's to be as realistic as we dare to make it . |
| 17 | It is to be commercially available in 1993 . |
| 18 | It is to be fully human and yet to know that the Garden of Eden man is the creature of clay feet . |
| 19 | … ( 6 ) Schedule 12 to this Act has effect for the purposes of this section and , in that Schedule — ( a ) Part I prescribes the matters for which provision must be made by a scheme if it is to be a scheme which qualifies for recognition for the purposes of this section ; ( b ) Part II prescribes the matters action in relation to any of which must be subject to investigation under a scheme if it is to qualify for recognition for the purpose of investigations in relation to that matter ; and ( c ) Part III contains other requirements to which a scheme must conform if it is to be so recognised . |
| 20 | Task Force chairman Kingsley Smith , Durham County Council chief executive , said last night : ‘ It is very good news , provided there are no catches , and it is to be genuinely additional money . |
| 21 | In a week 's time you will find how easy it is to be perfectly objective with your child and at the same time kindly . |
| 22 | It is to be constitutionally independent of member countries ' governments and its principal objective has been defined to be price stability in the Community . |
| 23 | Until you have known it you will have no conception of what it is to be truly lonely . |
| 24 | In this search for a new spiritual awareness , they — like us — were finding new possibilities to achieve a revived sense of what it is to be truly human in the transformational experience . |
| 25 | Each church , if it is to be truly indigenous , should be rooted in the soil of its local culture ’ ( Pasadena Consultation 1978:3 ) . |
| 26 | It is to be as visible as a city built upon a hill . |
| 27 | If he is to be totally unbiased when making his observations , then he will be obliged to record not only the readings on various meters , the presence or absence of sparks at various critical locations in the electrical circuits , the dimensions of the circuit etc. but also the colour of the meters , the dimensions of the laboratory , the state of the weather , the size of his shoes and a whole host of ‘ clearly irrelevant ’ details , irrelevant , that is , to the kind of theory in which Hertz was interested and which he was testing . |
| 28 | Many also were prepared to accept state welfare reform if it was to be truly redistributive from rich to poor , rather than financed by taxes on the poor themselves . |
| 29 | Yes I was just trying to think as to who it was to be quite honest . |
| 30 | For the underground it was to be almost unknown . |