Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] be be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But publications in America and Europe which may have been approached to buy were being wary on the subject yesterday . |
| 2 | The last thing I would want to do is be unkind to people who have given me an extremely successful show . |
| 3 | And he said ’ all you got to do is be careful you do n't hit the hedge , you see ’ . |
| 4 | I think we 've tried to err being being reasonable . |
| 5 | Erm what I was trying to do was be candid about what kind of er inquiries of the strategic kind might be expected to come if this county had that kind of policy . |
| 6 | All you have to do is be alert and take those few basic precautions . |
| 7 | ‘ All you have to do is be black and do n't curse the Jews directly , and the Jew will vote for the black in a second . |
| 8 | That the world is not divided into 2 classes of people — one who run private care for nasty reasons — and another group who work in the statutory service for all the good reasons , and that what we have to do is be prepared to step outside of those kinds of labelling and look at what we are seeing , look at the needs of the people we are trying to help make provision for and see what best can be done out of the resources available . |
| 9 | Although the division of the Merovingian kingdom is often held to have been been traditional , this was clearly not the case in 511 . |