Example sentences of "[vb infin] be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well Jennifer I think it 's er viburnum lanterna and it 's quite an interesting er bush because it was in the sixteenth century a er gave the tree its poetic name as he frequently come across it in old drove roads er over and across the old drove roads in the chalk downs of er from Winchester to Epsom and London but sorry about this it can grow to fifteen feet and in May it opens up its cluster of white flowers and it 's really quite an attractive thing but the berries I do n't think are so attractive so I think erm |
| 2 | And when I came back , Bobby I gave Grant they and erm he must 've been pretty desperate because he did a wee wee before we left and he did a wee wee before |
| 3 | Even the soldiers in the field must 've been thoroughly sick of all those whining pieces about Our Boys and Girls , and their mail , or the endlessly recycled nonsense about how hard it was to be a female soldier in Saudi Arabia . |
| 4 | In , in this one it might 've been slightly easier because everything was spelled out you had to do you had to do carpenting , you had to do electrical . |
| 5 | He must 've been dead eighteen years . |
| 6 | Of all the hedges I 've seen they 've been about eighteen two foot , about that far apart |
| 7 | That 's not bad at all cos you thought it might 've been about nine hundred with them other two did n't you ? |
| 8 | Yeah , he 's , he 's into ev oh it must 've been about six or eight weeks ago he started saying a couple of things and I thought oh he 's coming now , but it stopped I think I got excited when he started saying dark , but that 's as far as it got , int it ? |
| 9 | And the whole thing was wrecked the whole the the erm the floors in each er flat was one big circle of stone er about er it would 've been about twelve |
| 10 | If you 'd 've just switched it on when I come in it 'd 've been totally different . |
| 11 | No I think , I thought we still had a chance , albeit you know the odds had gone down a bit or increased , but er no I thought we still had a chance , it was gon na be harder because if we lost any more by the wayside then you know you 're gon na be , it would 've been very awkward . |
| 12 | I had a very strong idea of what I wanted , even through I had plenty of photos : I knew exactly the kind of movements I was looking for , I 'm glad we did it in two — I do n't think the cricketer would 've been very keen to do it again ! ’ |
| 13 | It was and yet , I 'm losing my thread with , what I was going to say was , it must 've been so important because an in that you could get anything you liked . |
| 14 | Everybody says , ‘ Oh , you won £44,000 in the world championships , you must 've been really pleased with that , ’ but it 's not just the money , it 's being able to pick up the trophy at the end — that 's the nice thing . |
| 15 | So , she starts quizzing me and I start nattering on about the bloody Brontes — I think Mrs Fleming must 've been really intelligent when she was young , honest-to-god she was firing them at me faster than Bamber Gascoigne , she says to me : ‘ And tell me , Karen , how are you going to deal with the themes of Repressed Sexuality in the Brontes ' work ? ’ |
| 16 | I suppose I could 've been too cool ! ’ |
| 17 | She would 've been all fat there once , and a baby growing inside of her . |
| 18 | so they must 've been fairly sure of their support to allow them to come into an area of villages . |
| 19 | There must 've been with erm in forty seven was it the encirclement campaign where they allowed the nationalists to sort of drive through the , I do n't know the defences , they must 've been fairly certain of their support in certain areas by then . |
| 20 | And your sister 's ten years older than you so they must 've been there ten years plus , must n't they ? |
| 21 | you , you must 've been there ten years plus . |
| 22 | Most of the generalisations one could make are probably true for a lot of other languages as well . |
| 23 | This third point again seems paradoxical , for how can prey be both aposematic and not aposematic ? |
| 24 | The fish and chips he did buy were simply scrumptious . |
| 25 | For non-phobic clients , homework tasks might include being more assertive in a specific situation at work , involvement in a relaxing leisure activity , or cutting down on prescribed tranquillizers . |
| 26 | Since expectations are difficult to predict , the amount by which V will fall is also difficult to predict : |
| 27 | What we do know is that much of the three great islands bordering the Java Sea — Sumatra , Java and Borneo — and nearly all of the smaller islands inside the sea itself lie below an altitude of 200 feet . |
| 28 | And what we do know is often second-hand , usually from Israeli sources . |
| 29 | The intention of the testator that his brother-in-law should not profit is quite clear , but there is no evidence of any more specifically juridical intention . |
| 30 | This would normally be regarded as a matter for economists and market-research specialists but behind the formidable array of evidence which they will generate are more fundamental questions of consumer preference , customer requirements and so on which are matters of human needs and prejudices . |