Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [adv] [vb base] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Be on your guard as you travel — 2 pairs certainly seem to be . |
| 2 | Thirteen families still have to be contacted , but hospital officials are confident they will be able to trace them . |
| 3 | Although it is widely agreed that successful innovations need to couple R&D , manufacturing , and marketing activities to ensure that new products can be manufactured at reasonable cost and are attractive to consumers , it is not completely obvious that this means that all three activities always need to be conducted under the same roof . |
| 4 | ‘ I wouldn't. ever want to be a princess , ’ Dot sometimes said , because she wanted so much to be one . |
| 5 | Frederick Campbell , when District Judge at Tangalla , also noted that cattle stealing prosecutions were identical : ‘ For example , no two parties ever happen to be together , and witness the removal of a stolen animal , one sees the removal at one , and another at another place , whilst a third sees the removal of the flesh . ’ |
| 6 | While the top three or four companies now seem to be in reasonable financial shape it is the medium-sized firms in the top thirty that are feeling the pressure . |
| 7 | These two judgements certainly appear to be precisely correct , if we read the script through , concentrating simply on the story line . |
| 8 | That is to say , the effects of activating two components together have to be the sum of the effects of activating either in isolation . |