Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [to-vb] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What I want to grieve is the old Maurice before he was laid so humiliatingly low by whatever it was — a stroke , a deprivation of oxygen , an act of God — we 'll never know . |
| 2 | The central point I want to make is the general one , not just about culling : namely , that there really are arguments on both sides and we have to do justice to the complexity of the problem . |
| 3 | The other matter with which I wish to deal is the false feeling among Conservative Members that the Government have acted correctly on child benefit . |
| 4 | All I have to wear are the same old rags I 've had for years . |
| 5 | The comparison I have to hand is the 1962 Dorati on Mercury , which did not greatly impress AW last year . |
| 6 | The ones you tend to remember are the worse ones , those that are particularly cruel . |
| 7 | Whether you 're planning a long backpacking trip or a succession of short excursions , having a clear idea of what you want to accomplish is the surest way to get the most for your time and money . |
| 8 | What you need to do is the exact opposite : set yourself targets that you can reasonably expect to achieve . |
| 9 | With a practice partner all you need to know is the key word chosen . |
| 10 | ‘ Every investor has to back the judgment and ability of the management , but what we want to control is the exceptional event , ’ says Enskilda Ventures ' managing director Bert Wiegman . |
| 11 | What we want to emphasise is the theoretical context of method and how this is integral to sociological investigation , not simply as a technique but as something which has profound significance for the possibility of sociology itself . |
| 12 | Among the questions which we hope to answer are the following : 1 . |
| 13 | It is also confusion between a proper assurance based on experience and the insight deriving from it , and the dogmatism which so easily follows but is distinct from it , and which insists that what we happen to know is the only thing that matters — what others have discovered or had revealed to them is unimportant . |
| 14 | Our radical objector maintains about what we take to have been the causal circumstance that it might riot have been followed by the smell , and moreover that this would not have resulted from the absence of some further condition . |
| 15 | He maintains that what we take to have been the causal circumstance might have existed as it did , and the rest of the universe might have been just as it was-and there might have been no smell . |
| 16 | Many newspapers compile lists of what they consider to have been the best novels of the previous year — a useful guide to what readers might try to get hold of . |
| 17 | Few of us in our modern life-styles experience this , and the nearest many of us get to exercise is the short , puffed run to catch a train or bus . |