Example sentences of "[vb base] to [be] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They focus not on areas of need but on areas where they want to be seen to be giving , and that 's usually where the spotlight happens for the moment to be falling . |
| 2 | ‘ If you are a high-flier in commerce or industry , the last thing you want to be associated with is the closure of a hospital . ’ |
| 3 | And as you ladies and gentlemen now are thinking of retiring as I have done the least thing you want to be bothered about is rules and regulations . |
| 4 | Erm y'know those kinds of things er tend to be tend to be effective . |
| 5 | There 's money to be made , advantage to be gained and amour to be won by being bold . |
| 6 | First , they wish to be seen to be reducing personal taxation . |
| 7 | In fact , those who most seem to be themselves appear to me people impersonating what they think they might like to be , believe they ought to be , or wish to be taken to be by whoever is setting standards . |
| 8 | No doubt Cardiff feel that they have to be seen to be doing something to restore both their fortunes and their credibility and that the something should be suitably dramatic . |
| 9 | Norber 's giant mushrooms have to be seen to be believed . |
| 10 | The images were too much of a jumble because new houses on the Gulf are a fantasy that have to be seen to be believed . |
| 11 | The Government and the forces of law and order have to be seen to be concerned and to be effective . |
| 12 | The Government and the forces of law and order have to be seen to be concerned and to be effective . |
| 13 | Public services have become more marketing orientated and have to be seen to be more accountable to their ‘ publics ’ ( e.g. the police service which is now more public relations conscious than in the past ) . |
| 14 | Thus , local authority departments have to be seen to be spending money wisely as they are more publicly accountable . |
| 15 | And in a way , what they then have to be prepared for is people who are living into adult life because health for children is better — and this is true of many parts of the world , not only Latin America , but also Africa — and you 're going to have to find more jobs . |
| 16 | But do n't let anyone get away with telling you that IBM 's problems are all the fault of the world economy : if Hewlett-Packard Co can grow at 20% in the current climate , if ICL Plc can remain in the black , if that former corporate basket case Unisys Corp , which compared with IBM started out under its present management with no advantages at all , can return to profit , IBM 's woes have to be acknowledged to be primarily the fault of the company itself , and only exacerbated by the economy . |
| 17 | The catty among her sisters ( and the hatreds that rive the small band of women MPs have to be experienced to be believed ) called her Angela Brazil , but that did not stop her being the most popular girl in the school . |
| 18 | ‘ Common sense ’ and ‘ experience ’ , the officer 's greatest virtues , can not be taught , it is believed , but have to be acquired by being thrust almost immediately into the daily round . |
| 19 | Indeed , a teacher must respect the need adolescents have to be protected from being made vulnerable by the drama . |
| 20 | Some vitamins are very unstable chemically and therefore have to be protected by being coated with another substance . |
| 21 | it 's just the pure political aspect that because people are moving on and you need to be seen to be you need to use that for your own advantage . |