Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [prep] be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Westerners , who expect work to be as light as their skin , are vastly outnumbered by job-seekers from places like Iran , the Philippines and China , ready to try their hand at anything . |
| 2 | ‘ In my occupation the people you meet tend to be here one day and gone the next — or I am , since I work freelance . |
| 3 | The problem is assessing whether they are going to change or not and I suppose I get criticised for being too tolerant at times . |
| 4 | So all the players that I teach have to be very strong . |
| 5 | But I find Ruether to be fully justified : one must , as a theologian , make some judgement as to what the scriptures are about , and Ruether is explicit as to how she reads . |
| 6 | So whatever you use has to be instantly recognisable . |
| 7 | You do need to be as sharp as possible , because you have to be so quick with your gags . |
| 8 | Being only 5′ 2½″ tall myself I too feel very strongly about the unfairness of this , but there is absolutely nothing I can do about it except to warn you that in these circumstances you do need to be very accurate in counting calories in order to achieve a good rate of weight loss . |
| 9 | Yes good , cos everything that we do has to be very careful recorded and taking the photographs and doing the the drawings and sketches that 's one of the ways of recording . |
| 10 | After all , you do appear to be massively fertile . ’ |
| 11 | No sector is immune from the problem although , fortunately , the reported scandals do appear to be relatively rare worst cases and are not the tip of some horrendous iceberg . |
| 12 | Above all , as noted above , if the terms do appear to be too one-sided , the client 's trading partners may be encouraged to challenge them as unreasonable . |
| 13 | What I do appear to be quite successful at is raising money for charity . |
| 14 | Certain dogs do appear to be more receptive than others . |
| 15 | However the men generally do appear to be very immoral and dishonest . |
| 16 | commas individual teachers and we do have to be very careful about that . |
| 17 | Very much a practical proposition , but I think you do have to be fairly keen and interested . |
| 18 | ‘ Of course , I realise that as far as you 're concerned I ca n't possibly hope to fill my predecessor 's shoes , but I do happen to be very good at my job . ’ |
| 19 | Those that still exist continue to be quite well-subscribed . |
| 20 | ‘ Scots do tend to be rather inhibited about interior design , ’ she acknowledges . |
| 21 | The fact is , as we shall see , that different media do tend to be rather better for different things — you can not get a lot of information into a 30-second TV commercial , for example . |
| 22 | Long wheelbase tractors are more stable with heavy rear loading and need less front weight to balance a given load , but do tend to be less manoeuvrable . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , you do seem to be remarkably interested in my love life . ’ |
| 24 | Some industries do seem to be rather small relative to the size of the EC market , thus there are ten manufacturers of electricity-generating equipment in the EC and only two in the USA ( Curzon-Price 1988 ) . |
| 25 | Some librarians do seem to be less concerned with the size of their collections , and more interested in access to them by users . |
| 26 | The New York has a rosewood fingerboard which is well up to usual Eggle standards ; they really do seem to be consistently good across the entire range . |
| 27 | Raiding the fridge is not a gender-linked activity , but cravings do seem to be more common in women . |
| 28 | In this respect at least family responsibilities do seem to be very different for women and men , both as givers and receivers . |
| 29 | Well we do seem to be still wedded to some form of British amateurism , I think , the panel would agree with me there . |
| 30 | We 've decided to be more flexible about how we organise the lessons . ’ |