Example sentences of "get [prep] [be] [adj] [prep] be " in BNC.

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1 You 've got I 'll give you twenty minutes and it 's got ta be ready to be handed over to the other group in twenty minutes time .
2 So now I 've got to be cruel to be kind .
3 but I mean it depends also I suppose erm , when your aiming for is the market , and I , I , I would like to have my work published but I also like to perform it and its got to be attractive to be looked at , in the first instance in , on a page its not known , er , there is , there is a lot of debate at the moment about using erm pages for poetry and some poets have actually starting using , writing from the wrong side and , and , and , and writing in the shape of a poem , for instance , if , what poem I was thinking off was a , was a waterfall so it was cascading the words cascading , you almost have to pick , ha , ha , have a choice of , of words that you want to fit into a particular thing , erm I think that 's had its place , but I think it can be a bit off putting as well , yeah , but it exciting , yeah definitely .
4 got to be careful to be right on in that respect , I think
5 Because , in the current climate of debate , the drive to preserve the boundaries of class through culture can dissolve ( slip ? ) too easily into a concern with race , with the myth of white ethnicity , the myth , that is , that you 've got to be white to be British .
6 ‘ If we 're going to break through , we 've got to be prepared to be quick on the button and to say quite risky things . ’
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