Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , if the linker needle is bent the same applies , but machine needles get bent more frequently than the linker needle , the weighting needs to be correct . |
| 2 | The bike has to be roadworthy and under 20 years old . |
| 3 | The text has to be short , not more than two thousand words . |
| 4 | The retailer needs to be able to plan how she uses her money , to work out how much profit she needs to make to stay in business — and to grow . |
| 5 | I feel the short story has to be cohesive ; in a novel , there 's more room , the tone can change . |
| 6 | This presents a major obstacle , in so far as the would-be acquirer needs to be able to calculate the attitude of a target company 's owners to an offer , given that the management will often be uncooperative . |
| 7 | Heredia wants to be poetic and hard ; the hardness appears to him as a virtue in the poetic . |
| 8 | Such a framework needs to be flexible enough to move with the times , keep abreast of public sympathy , but ensure that their control over our lives remains essentially untouched . |
| 9 | The masses are usually characterised by Class 2 residues , which the governing elite has to be able to manipulate for its own purposes . |
| 10 | Pareto is clear that political activity is not necessarily a moralising activity ; on the contrary , the governing elite has to be able and willing to use violence , corruption , guilt and deceit to ensure public order , national independence and social conditions for the growth of national prosperity . |
| 11 | Just as change has to be acceptable if there is to be success in implementing it , so training for management has to be acceptable . |
| 12 | At the initial design stage , and during the implementation of the program , the programmer needs to be aware of and act upon a number of factors . |
| 13 | If the male wants to be potent in these activities , he must avoid the menstruating woman . |
| 14 | The programmer has to be aware right from the initial design stage of the implications of the program design in terms of memory and speed requirements , and must be aware of techniques for optimizing any combination of these factors that is required . |
| 15 | Being designed by a small three-man team , financial and organizational support needs to be forthcoming if BSO is to have an assured future . |
| 16 | Power is lacking , and the user has to be patient to get results , but it is difficult to complain for the average selling price of just over £60 . |
| 17 | The kitchen has to be ready for anything . ’ |
| 18 | Faith has to be persistent . |
| 19 | For the best results , the framework has to be strong enough to support itself and two thicknesses of 12mm plasterboard . |
| 20 | The central vision area of the retina needs to be intact for it to be possible to discriminate sharp , fine images . |
| 21 | These salts need to have a high ‘ Biological Availability ’ ie the horse has to be able to efficiently digest and absorb the minerals . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , none of the superpowers have been willing to say that they would not actually use these weapons in a second nuclear strike , on the grounds that for the deterrent to be credible the other side has to be convinced that a first nuclear strike would result in nuclear retaliation . |
| 23 | The first decision to be faced is whether the institution needs to be able to make its own recordings . |
| 24 | The agent has to be external and never within themselves . |
| 25 | Sergeant Major , you 've been in the Army for about nigh on twenty years now , do you think that a soldier has to be able to cope with that sort of taunting and name calling when he 's on the streets of Belfast for example . |
| 26 | It introduces inflexibility and excessive bureaucratic controls at a time when the industry needs to be able to develop along economic lines . |
| 27 | The industry needs to be clear : |
| 28 | In order to be effective , the level of intervention to regulate corporate crime has to be organizational rather than individual . |
| 29 | Synchronised movement is critical , so the command has to be brief and so timed by a delayed ‘ one-and- pull sort of order . |
| 30 | Right , mummy wants to be purple . |