Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A women 's team was launched at her university and this season they seem destined to be the top student side in the UK as they are currently unbeaten and through to the semi-finals of the students ' cup competition . |
| 2 | That 's why we 've come to be the two individuals who are , in inverted comma , Responsible for whatever happens during an incident . |
| 3 | He was incredible ; he could shoot rounds of 64 and 65 any day of the week — and to do that you 've got to be a reasonable putter . |
| 4 | ‘ You 've got to be a bloody bastard . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You 've got to be a bloody bastard . |
| 6 | This time next week lad you 'll be at nanny 's , you 've got to be a good boy |
| 7 | ‘ Aye ; you 've got to be a real man to play this game , ’ Howie says , winking and taking up his glass . |
| 8 | You 've got to be a blooming chemist now to de , de , decipher all these labels . |
| 9 | But apart from this er for Leicester this Alan now they 're starting to s squeeze a little bit and they 've got to be a little bit careful they do n't leave Collimore too much space to run into . |
| 10 | And you 've got to be a big dog to pull in a boat . |
| 11 | Therefore you 've got to be selective in what you do and you 've got to be the right person to deal with those things , of course . |
| 12 | I think if you 're going to be the only boy , you 've got to be the eldest . |
| 13 | I mean today , you 've got to be an educated man to know how to even , they 've got er tractors and everything , but in those days you 'd got to set your plough furrow out so as you you could run your plough down your first one , and then as you as you ploughed your first furrow out you 'd got to plough your next one into it . |
| 14 | But you 've got to be an erudite to be able to understand that . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've had to be a good liar myself to keep my head above water all this time . |
| 16 | Inside 12 months we 've gone from being an old side to having some very encouraging youngsters . ’ |
| 17 | Yes , that 's the way it is at San L — even if the partner you 've split with is the next king . |
| 18 | I 've tried to be a good mother to you … |
| 19 | The human hepatoma cell lines Hep3B and HepG2 have proven to be a good model for the study of IL-6 induced gene expression ( 17–18 ) . |
| 20 | My Fiat Panda has a similar ignition fault which I have diagnosed to be a disengaged starter motor . |
| 21 | At the same , the emphasis on equilibrium hampered any possible appreciation of the notion of competition which we have seen to be the outstanding characteristic of the market process . |
| 22 | In more recent years , 60 years of age for women and 65 for men have tended to be the maximum ages at which permanent retirement from the labour force takes place , earnings from current employment cease , and statutory and , in some cases , occupational pensions are drawn . |
| 23 | The two people doing the bass have got to be the same pitch . |
| 24 | The severity of antral gastritis was scored using the method of Rauws et al , which we have found to be a sensitive method for assessing the severity of H pylori -induced gastritis . |
| 25 | Cycling , like walking , is one of the best ways of seeing and enjoying the countryside , and mountain bikes have proved to be the latest and most popular method of ‘ green ’ transport : over 1 million of them were sold last year . |
| 26 | Even the best constructed franchise package can not guarantee success and some have proved to be an expensive pathway to financial disaster . |
| 27 | Over the years we have proved to be an effective and efficient council and I believe you have all contributed greatly to making Lothian such a progressive authority . |
| 28 | During the same period Glasgow and its conurbation have gone from being an industrial city with 60 per cent of its labour in manufacturing to a service centre with 60 per cent of its labour in service occupations . |
| 29 | ‘ I have progressed from being an underpaid woman worker to being an underpaid pensioner . ’ |
| 30 | In the period of transition that historians call the Axial Age ( 800–200 BCE ) , the great confessional faiths developed which have continued to be a crucial influence in the consciousness of the people of each region : in China Lao Tsu developed Taoism , in India , Hinduism and Buddhism reformed the primitive pagan vision and made it a means of analysing the self ; in the Middle East the monotheistic faiths analysed history and the Greek rationalists of Athens analysed the cosmos to find an ultimate meaning and significance in the apparently random flux of life . |