Example sentences of "[vb -s] to be [conj] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The question then arises as to how specific the Community legislation has to be before it precludes national legislation .
2 The other disadvantage has to be that your ferret must then be a line ferret , and it then suffers the disadvantage of having to pull an obstruction , albeit a small one , around any snag that exists within the burrow .
3 The main criterion for an engine , says Mr Nearn , has to be that it fits the car .
4 Apricot Computers Ltd , which always likes to be first with Intel 's latest chip , will reportedly announce a P5-based machine in September , but with the enormous leap in complexity in the microprocessor , the other major worry has to be that it will take early users of the chip at least 18 months to find all the bugs in it and for Intel to correct them .
5 It has to be because we have to get our hands in .
6 The youngest driver on the grid at the moment is just 12. , … he 's Daniel Barrett … and guess what he wants to be when he grows up …
7 There are formal procedures for deciding how large a difference in the ds needs to be before we decide to take the interaction seriously , but these are beyond the scope of this book .
8 You see ads for PCs promoting themselves as ‘ network-ready ’ and you wonder just how ready a PC needs to be before it can be used on a LAN .
9 It can be weekly , fortnightly , monthly , or just occasionally on request but quite often we are finding that a person who 's assessed as needing help weekly , but all that we have got is fortnightly , and all of the time there are clients waiting for us to up the amount of help that we 're giving to them and , very much , it needs to be when it benefits them , and when it fits in with their lives .
10 I think really I need to say that that someone been creating happens to be that they 're not sold off and
11 It 's all classified , but what it amounts to is that we wo n't play the Great Game over here and they wo n't play it in the UK .
12 I doubt very much whether we 'll have a score on that because it tends to be that we do n't find out what happens in Italy until er the following morning .
13 Maybe three lads to the drawings and maybe two lads to do the calculations , whereas it would be slightly in the bridge office or the works office because of the present resource availability , it tends to be that you only have a smaller number of people doing , doing those tasks .
14 Instead , the main ingredient of success appears to be that they have consistently geared themselves to the needs of international trade .
15 Responses from schools following visits , and the evaluation study undertaken in 1991 , demonstrate that one of the most significant features of the vehicle programme appears to be that they are ‘ for girls only ’ , ‘ it 's special for us ’ .
16 ‘ At present the Government 's mind-set appears to be that nothing can be done without a smile of approval from Dublin , which never comes .
17 The hypothesis appears to be that we have inherited from our animal ancestors the habit of discrimination , but have added an additional criterion , namely the conscious calculation of relatedness , to the criteria of propinquity , and perhaps physical and biochemical similarity , used by animals .
18 The answer appears to be that it arrived courtesy of the Romans .
19 The answer to the key question — what applications will it run — appears to be that it will run unmodified character-based MS-DOS applications , and converted Mac applications , to the extent that any developers are prepared to convert them , and will run on iAPX-86 processors from the 80386 up .
20 It appears to be that it 's off the rails
21 Thirdly that there is no requirement to demonstrate a need to locate development in open countryside erm and we 've been reminded this morning that erm one of the erm flaws in the policy put forward back in nineteen seventy nine or eighty erm appears to be that it erm required , certainly in the explanatory memorandum , that the development be erm essential erm to er essentially have a countryside location .
22 But once you got well into the business of the removal , y one forgets , you see , and you forget exactly what you 're carrying or what it appears to be that you 're carrying .
23 The testator 's intention once again appears to be that his daughter 's whole estate should devolve according to the rules of intestacy , and so end in her brother 's eager hands .
24 Ms Armstrong considers Mr Fallon to be sexist : the reason appears to be that he called her a woman .
25 The true position seems to be that something done or promised before the promise sued on is not by itself treated as a sufficient reason for the enforcement of the promise . ’
26 The Marxist ethical imperative seems to be that whatever advances the cause of the proletariat or the advent of communism is ‘ ideologically correct ’ .
27 The modern perception of the hills , however , seems to be that they are one gigantic Butlin 's .
28 The answer seems to be that they are barely used at all .
29 Despite the popular image of Japanese employees as happy and harmonious group workers the reality seems to be that they are not .
30 The problem for Scotland 's lawyers seems to be that they are now exceeding their clients ' expectations of the legal services , Neil Fitzgerald explains .
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