Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At dinner on the night when her doll had been broken , however , Katherine was too upset to pretend to be invisible . |
| 2 | The most prestigious tend to be the oldest : Oxford , Cambridge , and , in Scotland , St. Andrew 's . |
| 3 | But that ceased to be part of Spitting Image 's remit several series ago . |
| 4 | It is really the Plan Five and Plan Six that that tend to be the bulk of our business , which , as I say , gives up to a thousand pound parts and labour , which is obviously a lot better than two hundred pounds . |
| 5 | More than that I believe that what is right needs to be said . |
| 6 | First , it is clear that they would need to be mutually oriented ; they would each need to be aware of what the other was doing at any time . |
| 7 | Would n't that need to be to the power of X ? |
| 8 | But does that need to be in procedures or does that just need to be in the master job file . |
| 9 | Both beauties have refused offers to team them together in a film since neither wants to be upstaged . |
| 10 | " An increase is long overdue and would assist materially when the care for the deaf has to be presented at the top level , " is a lament from the BDDA 's annual report for the year 1954 . |
| 11 | S so was that was that considered to be particularly skilful then ? |
| 12 | The contents of motion one seven eight appear to be sound , conference , we have been tried and we have been tried by some regions in a very limited way with some success . |
| 13 | Erm and , and that wants to be part of that exercise , really , of , of looking at the reasons a a and telling us whether we need to take any action . |
| 14 | That wants to be a minus sign . |
| 15 | Oh that wants to be a net list . |
| 16 | Say that we want it set up in here with a photograph and that wants to be on the thing outsi |
| 17 | That wants to be black ? |
| 18 | I do n't dare stop for that wants to be away from him . |
| 19 | However , if there is more than one speaker , each has to be provided with an individual microphone , and the speech signals therefore have to be fed to the camcorder via an audio mixer ; hence , tie-clip mikes are not suitable for use with large groups of people . |
| 20 | There is a degree of autonomy within each of the four countries , and although they may unite in the same objectives ( such as improvements in educational and professional standards ) , each has to be responsive to the nature and demands of its country of origin . |
| 21 | A further possible way of reconciling the two accounts is to say that both express important elements in kin relations , but each has to be modified with reference to the other . |
| 22 | Now look here , you trembling ridiculous creature , listen to me , nothing may happen and that has to be OK too . |
| 23 | That has to be paid before I or my partner get anything . |
| 24 | ‘ That has to be true , does n't it ? |
| 25 | All that has to be stored in my brain is ‘ If you want coffee , and are at A , go to C , and then D , and then E. ’ |
| 26 | I said , ‘ Hey , that has to be the title of a song . ’ ’ |
| 27 | ‘ That has to be left alone … ’ |
| 28 | The good news is that giving up smoking for the sake of the unborn baby is all that has to be done to bring an end to these needless deaths and halt the other harm suffered by these most defenceless of nonsmokers . |
| 29 | It imposes on us the belief that it is wrong to steal or to commit murder — and that has to be a good thing . |
| 30 | They will be a very few words because the prospectus has an increasingly difficult job of compressing into its allocated space all that has to be said about a University that gets bigger every year and that those of us who work in it are biased enough to think gets better every year . |