Example sentences of "it [vb -s] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'appens to be private . ’ |
| 2 | It longs to be golden again . |
| 3 | It needs to be sharp , of course , since you will use that to clear away surface vegetation and for cutting a route into a hedgerow to obtain easy access to the mouth of a burrow . |
| 4 | It needs to be visible action and leadership . |
| 5 | It needs to be powerful , yet flexible enough to get the most out of the network and provide maximum business benefits . |
| 6 | It needs to be hot water , so we have to be careful . |
| 7 | If the university is to act as the " cultural centre for the whole community " , with literature as the " central civilizing force " , it needs to be capable of discrediting those students who " are actually too lazy or incompetent to do an honest day 's work " . |
| 8 | We need such data and it needs to be sensitive to regional variations . |
| 9 | That is why it needs to be transparent , I said . |
| 10 | You 'll need a video card capable of displaying over 256 colours quickly ; for proper image editing it needs to be 24-bit or 32Kb . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , if a good sleep is imperative , say before an important meeting , then a short-acting hypnotic might be helpful ( it needs to be short-acting or its effects might last into the next waking period ) . |
| 12 | Most importantly , it needs to be able to tackle the ‘ pre-development gap ’ — the time between an idea and a prototype . |
| 13 | The moral to be drawn is that if we are to give an account of knowledge which does not include a requirement of certainty , our account should make room for the notion of certainty somewhere ; if it sees certainty as a requirement for a knowledge claim it needs to be able to explain in its own terms why that should be so . |
| 14 | Classical , Pavlovian conditioning is useful to the animal when it needs to be able to anticipate some repeatedly occurring change in its environment . |
| 15 | Whatever footwear you choose , it needs to be comfortable and give your feet proper support . |
| 16 | It needs to be full somebody said that you can wrap them up in these papers and they stay frozen . |
| 17 | This particular one is called a rail turn and two half hitches it needs to be tight so that it does n't come undone when we 're out there . |
| 18 | Later on in the article he repeats this ; ie. ‘ not only does the tenon need to be pretty much where it needs to be relative to the thickness of the wood . ’ |
| 19 | For a new system to work it needs to be flexible and to fit in with your own personal requirements . |
| 20 | It needs to be waterproof , for hot days bring mist-shrouded nights , heavy with dew . |
| 21 | When the body is elastic , the strain converts kinetic into potential energy … like drawing the string of a longbow , or winding the spring of a clock , or charging an electrical condensor , or filling a balloon with hot air … and it looks to be alive . |
| 22 | It has to be warm and friendly and , especially for the busy cook , it must be well designed . |
| 23 | It 's the idea that you ca n't have socialism in one country , it has to be international it 's the idea that it has to be based on the working class because the working class is the agent of socialism and it has to be by revolution because the ruling class wo n't give up its power and wealth voluntarily . |
| 24 | In the case of bank bills it has to be sure that the acceptor bank will be in a position to pay , thus the requirement of eligibility . |
| 25 | ‘ Staff are told it has to be user-led and then that it has to be rationed and controlled ’ . |
| 26 | But there 's no real rule , although maybe for the group it has to be conducive to live performance because we are such a live performance band . ’ |
| 27 | However , the specialist team is distinguished by a particular approach , featuring high throughput of cases , and it has to be uncertain at this stage whether this is a consequence of its specialism or of an underlying distinction in the conception of social work that it may represent — what we have called a ‘ deep ’ structure . |
| 28 | ‘ But it has to be accurate and timely . ’ |
| 29 | He does not really expect her to love him , and when she does it has to be total . |
| 30 | This means it has to be new , capable of industrial application , involve an innovation , and not be excluded as a special case — such as military inventions . |