Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She has to be extra careful in view of her past medical history with this illness , ’ said Dr Roth last night . |
| 2 | The area in which blending-in has to be most immediate is employment : factory workers have to be Tennesseans , Kentuckians or Geordies , dealt with in their own way . |
| 3 | The annual models provide good publicity at the Motor Show , but surely there is a limit to what can be done to a car that has to be instantly recognisable by its shape ? |
| 4 | So whatever you use has to be instantly recognisable . |
| 5 | ‘ She 's rather old , so one has to be frightfully careful , but I know you will be . |
| 6 | The same is true of exx.1b and 1c from the ‘ Jupiter ’ Symphony , since a note has to be reasonably short for the stroke to be perceived as staccato sign , shorter certainly than a dotted minim in allegretto or tied semibreves in any tempo . |
| 7 | ( It should be noted that Article 3(5) of the Directive does not actually state whether the land designated has to be inherently poor in addition to being affected by specific handicaps ; neither does it define ‘ specific handicaps ’ . |
| 8 | You can picture it , ca n't you , as the daily dumper truck tips out hundreds more envelopes , each of which has to be laboriously slit open , the contents unfolded , date-stamped , sent to the right person to be read . |
| 9 | This does not mean that action to solve human problems has to be equally complex . |
| 10 | This recognition , combined with the notion that life has to be somehow larger than a physical notion , meant that this approach has been broadened . |
| 11 | This nation of quicksilver individualists has to be stoically unwavering in the economic self-discipline it has belatedly imposed on itself . |
| 12 | So , far from having the home market to itself , ICI Soda Ash Products has to be internationally competitive — ‘ service and quality being every bit as important as price , ’ to quote Donald McLeod , commercial services manager and also a member of the five-man SAP executive . |
| 13 | That 's the problem — each house has to be economically independent after the preliminary conversion , you see , so we ca n't afford nursing staff . |
| 14 | Well , it well , it well yeah , it has to be rather awkward to read that I think , I do n't think I 'd fancy having a go at Norwegian . |
| 15 | From a merchant banker 's standpoint , a desirable bill of lading has to be ‘ merchantable ’ i.e. , it has to be easily resalable . |
| 16 | The intonation on your guitar has got to be perfect , because you 're fretting strings behind the glass and that has to be just right . |
| 17 | Bad habits on the old presses could be tolerated , but with the new ones ‘ the whole process has to be just right ’ . |
| 18 | If the parent feels they know a system that they have heard or read is successful , and if they try it out on the child and the child obviously enjoys it , if it becomes part of a game , then I ca n't see any harm in it , but I think the parent has to be scrupulously honest as to whether the child is enjoying it . |
| 19 | If the parent feels they know a system that they have heard or read is successful , and if they try it out on the child and the child obviously enjoys it , if it becomes part of a game , then I ca n't see any harm in it , but I think the parent has to be scrupulously honest as to whether the child is enjoying it . |
| 20 | If I have been fishing to the north of Fetlar , I sometimes take the ‘ inner route ’ back , a rather tortuous passage through the reefs and islets where navigation has to be pretty precise to avoid hitting hidden rocks . |
| 21 | At 1,000ft as you can imagine , the Ponderosa has to be pretty self-sufficient . |
| 22 | She has to be triply brave , triply astute on missions to win the recognition a man would receive . |
| 23 | The penalty for this is not , somewhat surprisingly , the price but the fact that the paper used has to be slightly absorbent so the printout is of average quality . |
| 24 | The mother has to be completely sure that she wants to wean her child from the breast or bottle : her motivation is essential for this to succeed . |
| 25 | The property has to be separately assessed and it has to be completely empty . |
| 26 | Secondly , anything suggested by the Progressive Democrats has to be automatically suspect , on the grounds that the Pee Dees are a miserable bunch of motherfuckers who , when Sam Snort grasps the reins of power , will all be rounded up and interned for an indefinite period . |
| 27 | A MAN has to be either rich or crazy to make films in Latin America these days . |
| 28 | Any other fish therefore has to be either large or armour-plated . |
| 29 | One might start by repeating examples done by previous mental-art-scientists to get the feel of what it 's about , but since each brain is complexly different from the next , so its expression has to be complexly different and one must soon press on with one 's own structures — and yet there is the universal bond of molecular structure , which is another way of saying " form/art is everywhere " . |
| 30 | Tony Garnett produces for Temple in California , and it has to be as far as he has ever got from the Ken Loach films with which he was associated before going to America . |