Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] be [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from himself , the only people he really cares about are his listeners ; the radio relationship is the only sort of genuine love-affair he 's ever known . |
| 2 | Scepticism apart , much more important to Quorn 's long-term success has to be its price . |
| 3 | Erm I know it 's easier said than done sometimes but er it has to be your decision because even if you went ahead and were confirmed , we were tal talking about the idea of sometimes parents bring pressure on them on you to go ahead and do it and be confirmed , erm when perhaps you 're not do n't feel ready for it and it takes a lot of courage to stand up and say No I 'm not ready . |
| 4 | But it has to be your decision , Belinda . ’ |
| 5 | Faye looked much happier , although Tom was saying , ‘ It has to be your decision — yours and Bill 's . |
| 6 | But it has to be your parents . |
| 7 | My least favourite item has to be my glasses . |
| 8 | Out of the three RoboCop games available , 2 has to be my favourite . |
| 9 | ‘ Please — it has to be my way . ’ |
| 10 | The right to stop the job has to be our campaign cry , lay officials and full-time officials must integrate the priority of health and safety issues . |
| 11 | ‘ This has to be our watershed . |
| 12 | ‘ This has to be our watershed . |
| 13 | Our moment — it has to be our moment . |
| 14 | The Ordinatio assigned Italy to Lothar " if God wills that he lives to be our successor " ( c.17 ) , without mentioning Bernard . |
| 15 | ‘ He wants to be your friend ! ’ |
| 16 | Sergeant wants to be our friend . |
| 17 | Well she wants to be his curate , er , she does use the curate . |
| 18 | Towards the end of the story , Gowie does start to become much nicer — not because of people threatening him , but because he meets somebody with a stronger personality who wants to be his friend . |
| 19 | I love him , and he wants to be my husband , mother . |
| 20 | If you drive down to the course that needs to be your transport when you get your first assignment . |
| 21 | DARREN FERGUSON has won over his biggest critic — Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson , who also just happens to be his dad . |
| 22 | ‘ But the one with the greedy , grasping little ways happens to be your fiancée , not me ! ’ |
| 23 | The address business address is happens to be your home is |
| 24 | They do n't have a problem at all it does n't seem to er be part of their daily lives er , that said I do have a farmer of my acquaintance , when I say my acquaintance he happens to be my son-in-law . |
| 25 | Together with the Fifth , it happens to be my favourite of the symphonies . |
| 26 | He drew a deep breath , then said with a faint curl to his lip , ‘ Lucy happens to be my stepmother 's niece . ’ |
| 27 | Apart from the fact that there 's an eleven-year gap in our ages and I do n't go in for cradle-snatching , she happens to be my stepsister . ’ |
| 28 | Adam may have extended the invitation , but it happens to be my house . ’ |
| 29 | It maintains that what the sceptic takes to be his strength is in fact his weakness . |
| 30 | The argument from error has here a plausible consistency , while the point which Nozick takes to be his strength begins to look like a weakness . |