Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [vb -s] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's substantial improvement , particularly in West Yorkshire , and that does need to be taken into account . |
| 2 | Twelve months ago in my last Christmas contribution I anticipated a difficult 1991 and that has proved to be the case . |
| 3 | Then I saw the top tier of the cake and that has got to be the er piece , piece de resistance I think as the French say and I know that some very exciting ideas are coming out of the South East region . |
| 4 | Children leaving home because they 've been abused physically or sexually erm or verbally erm the breakdown in the quality of family life has also got something to do with all this business and that has got to be addressed as well , and money wo n't change that . |
| 5 | It 's a spanner in the works , and that 's got to be good news . ’ |
| 6 | The Tory government and their legislation is our enemy and that 's got to be attacked . |
| 7 | concrete and that 's got to be one mix each time is n't it ? |
| 8 | ‘ Any further search for a definition would be axiomatic ’ suggests Moncrieff , and this does seem to be true , the Third Karolinska Institute Symposium on Environmental Health , defining an odour as ‘ The product of the activation of the sense of smell , an olfactory experience ’ . |
| 9 | This observation prompts the speculation that chains of right-handed amino acids will form left-handed a-helices and this does seem to be so . |
| 10 | At some stage in a competition , competitors have to be ranked in order , and this has come to be the role of public examinations . |
| 11 | As you may know , there is a strong self-help element in DIAL UK , as the service that is provided is done so , wherever possible , by people who are themselves disabled or who have a direct experience of disability , and this has proved to be very successful . |
| 12 | Since first appearing in the pages of this magazine ( FACE 33 ) , the SAS campaign has developed enormously , and 1992 has proved to be the breakthrough year . |
| 13 | As we have already observed ( see ( 35 ) ) , the verb see , in its ordinary uses , can not be expected to occur with an adverbal adjective , but this does appear to be the interpretation needed for ( 41 ) which may be considered substandard but is apparently possible in current British English : ( 41 ) even if the scheme does fail , I 'll see you comfortable Much more often , the idiomaticity works the other way , so that a set of lexical items that could fit the structure of ( 21 ) , with appropriate values , seem to give unacceptable sentences , as in ( 42 ) : ( 42 ) Eva played her opponent exhausted Wendy wiped the floor moist |