Example sentences of "[vb -s] to be there " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken wanted to rake David to this thing on his own and David , being very , very cold — he hates demonstrations of emotion — and me being very Mediterranean , I told him that as far as I was concerned , I did n't give a fuck about his award or seeing him receive it , but I thought it was a bit much that his mother could n't be there because it was a public occasion and it was a time when , without having to speak to her , he could be nice to her , as every mother loves to be there for that kind of thing . |
| 2 | It has to be there in the work . |
| 3 | Well , in the beginning the strings sweep up , then there are the basses and the bass trombone , which has the phrase on the beat , and it has to be there . |
| 4 | It does n't have to be big , it just has to be there . |
| 5 | To paraphrase an old saying , the water has to be there for the horse to be able to drink . |
| 6 | But for decades such scenes were done in the studio : if you think of the scene between the brothers Charley ( Rod Steiger ) and Terry ( Marlon Brando ) in On the Waterfront ( 1953 ) , as they talk in the back of a limo , the background of night-time streets has to be there and be moving ; but it 's only partly visible ( and the cars of the 1930s and '40s had small rear windows ) and becomes dramatically significant only after Terry has left the car . |
| 7 | ‘ Mr Winek has to be there , ’ she cried , thumping the wall with her fist and dislodging a drawing-pin , sending a call sheet and a sheaf of addresses spiralling about the corridor . |
| 8 | I could just tell them to get there , be there , keep watch there , because he 's bound to be there , has to be there , there of all places . |
| 9 | And what happens is that if an embryo has the single gene for being male , it happens to have a white chromosome not surprisingly , it turns on thousands of other genes that then make the embryo into a male , but , but that single gene has to be there to act as a switch and that 's that gene is also present in alligators and crocodiles so the point I 'm making is it is just wrong to say that , that all these discoveries about genetics cut no ice with human evolution , because human things can not be influenced by single genes . |
| 10 | or and the cho , it has , this is , it has to be there by , we can actually just do a national curriculum report which gives a level , that 's all ! |
| 11 | Everybody has to be there . |
| 12 | But in my book it has to be there , one way or another . |
| 13 | that well , maybe the officer , the local beat officer has got a problem estate that he has to pinpoint and has to be there , or an area where the crime is being committed to try and deal with |
| 14 | The IAEA wants to be there to check whether fuel rods have been removed in the past , and to ensure that the spent fuel is not diverted for military purposes . |
| 15 | ‘ Not as rare as it is for you to meet a woman who wants to be there . ’ |
| 16 | my Lord then all , what , then , was not restricting competition because the people you have excluded are not people who would be in the market in any event , you are already saying we 've got the level of the , the , the hurdle , the wall or the barrier to such a low level that anybody who 's outside it , it is simply not a competitor , we 've got everybody in the market who could conceivably deserve to be there , but there 's no restriction , no you maybe excluding criminals or fraudsters for a , until they 've been re rehabilitated , er and you 're excluding people who simply do not deserve to be there as competitors at all , but no capability of right to compete and that 's why there is no restriction , everybody is in the charm circle who wants to be there and is capable of competing and that 's what the commission are trying to get the rules down to , making sure that no one is outside of the wall who should be inside of the wall and that 's why of course at the end of the day they can give their clearances , there 's no restriction . |
| 17 | what 's running on the two thirty wants to be there in time . |
| 18 | When these result in avoidable death , and they do , then it could be anyone who just happens to be there — employees , consumers , ordinary citizens . |
| 19 | Merely the fact that Adam happens to be there , too . |
| 20 | I returned to the spot where my home once stood , looked affectionately at Tony 's bright plastic ball in the knot of pampas , and left a plastic message pad beside it with a message for Mina , in case the area does a timeslip again and she happens to be there . |
| 21 | Which must mean that he intends to be there for some time . |
| 22 | As most trespasses are self-evidently intentional because the defendant intends to be there , the question of the state of mind of the defendant is not often of importance . |
| 23 | ‘ The potential appears to be there to get a vigorous fast-growing , good conformation , first cross wether lamb and , provided the ability to lamb out of season is inherited , it also implies a ewe lamb capable of natural early lamb production , ’ Mr Powell added . |
| 24 | To make a Uruguay deal the triumph it deserves to be , the first precondition appears to be there already : backing from the EC and America for Peter Sutherland to succeed Arthur Dunkel as director-general . |
| 25 | This " nature " is what is really there , not just what appears to be there . |
| 26 | ‘ The message , ’ says Robin Richardson of the race relations charity Runnymede Trust , ‘ seems to be there is no place for black ethnic minority people in the centuries-old history evoked by this picture — and , by implication , in the historic work ahead of us ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ Most of the time , ’ she said slowly , ‘ Jonathon hardly seems to be there . |
| 28 | By the end of the chapter the reader is smothered with linguistic information , most of which seems to be there merely as evidence for the poem 's tone , be it " proverbial " or one of " intimacy " . |
| 29 | And in considering how such things could have fooled some of our most eminent Baroque scholars and performers , I leave the reader to judge whether the question mark in my title deserves to be there . |
| 30 | He hopes to be there again next year ‘ although I always say ‘ never again ’ straight afterwards and then a few months later remember how much I enjoyed it . ’ |