Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] be [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulty is that a recruitment system has to be both a production system and an information system , and this is what makes it so much more complex than personnel records . |
| 2 | One is to telephone , or write to her beforehand , saying that things have been so hectic at your end recently that it seemed at one point that you might have to postpone your visit for a week or two , but that you are so keen to see her that you are absolutely determined to ‘ make it ’ somehow , even if it has to be just a ‘ flying visit ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ It has to be just a little longer , straighter and perhaps more masculine . ’ |
| 4 | That has to be quite an achievement . ’ |
| 5 | Your Watson , then , needs to be just a little less intelligent than you conceive your readers as being . |
| 6 | It seems to be unusual for the Prime Minister or the Lord Chancellor to consult other ministers ( except that the Lord Chancellor may discuss the matter with the Attorney-General and the Solicitor-General ) unless any such minister happens to be also a distinguished member of the bar , as was Sir Stafford Cripps in Mr Attlee 's administration from 1945 . |
| 7 | Thus the inclusion of conservation elements in rural development projects tends to be more a conceptual advance than a practical one , and to be an item in a project document rather than an output . |
| 8 | From the point when the Government 's high interest rate policies start taking effect to the point when companies start calling in the receiver , there tends to be quite a delay — liquidity problems do not suddenly emerge unless something dramatically goes wrong . |
| 9 | In this way , casting ceases to be just an intermediary stage in the act of creation but is itself the finished product of that act . |
| 10 | The Pelagian connection appears to be just a confusion with the earlier myth . |
| 11 | It appears to be just a tragic accident . ’ |
| 12 | It just appears to be just a fraction out of focus maybe , I do n't know . |
| 13 | The outstretched arms of the great statue of Christ overlooking Rio no longer appear to the inhabitants of the favelas below to be open in benediction or welcome ; in this city of violence , insecurity and ravaged humanity , it appears to be rather a gesture of resignation and despair . |
| 14 | The dark staining characteristic of rock surfaces in arid regions , which is also observed to a limited extent in more humid environments , appears to be primarily a result of biogenic processes . |
| 15 | Most surprisingly , as von Klitzing and his colleagues showed only a couple of years ago , the Hall resistance at each plateau , measured as the ratio of the Hall voltage to the longitudinal current , appears to be precisely a multiple of fundamental constants , h/Ne 2 , and is completely independent of all experimental parameters . |
| 16 | At Barton Farm , Orpheus looked to his right and runs very thick fingers across what appears to be more a grille than the strings of a lyre . |
| 17 | There appears to be only a finite number of such theories . |
| 18 | If you were to consult fibre charts , you would see that watercress ( 33 per cent fibre ) appears to be quite a good source . |
| 19 | ‘ After talking to officers from other authorities that appears to be quite a significant number of dogs , ’ said Mr Westland . |
| 20 | Today , being an active member of a political party seems to be neither a qualification nor a disqualification for appointment . |
| 21 | This gene seems to be neither an oncogene nor tumour supressor gene , but could be responsible for an increase in genetic instability by way of multiple replication errors within the genome . |
| 22 | The actual composition and size of groups seems to be largely a consequence of the formation of particular types of mating and rearing unit . |
| 23 | Institutional labels would suggest not ; it seems to be largely a matter of historical accident whether a university , polytechnic or college has a faculty/school of humanities or one of arts ( or even letters ) . |
| 24 | Because this seems to be largely a ‘ negative ’ result , in the sense that differences in the secretion of acid and pepsin were not discovered , the confidence that a type II error ( a false negative ) has not been made was estimated . |
| 25 | In a country such as Sweden where most manual workers ( although not necessarily white-collar employees ) are organised in industrial unions this seems to be partly a reflection of prior employer organisation on an industry-wide basis ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 26 | This difference seems to be partly a consequence of the relative homogeneity of Australian English on the one hand , and the heterogeneity of Belfast English on the other . |
| 27 | There seems to be rather a lot of names for those who share a proclivity for their own sex . |
| 28 | There seems to be rather a lot of the latter about , if those astute fellows , the marketing and advertising men , are anything to go by . |
| 29 | The price to pay for being a vessel for divine birth seems to be rather a high one . |
| 30 | In general , the Universe seems to be nearer a great thought than a great machine . |