Example sentences of "this [verb] [prep] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On April 9 , 1964 the rethought , turboprop , DHC-5 Buffalo first flew , but this failed to be built in the numbers of its predecessor . |
| 2 | Much of the family 's influence derived not from land , but from office holding within the royal demesne , and the implications of this tend to be overlooked . |
| 3 | Much of the family 's influence derived not from land , but from office holding within the royal demesne , and the implications of this tend to be overlooked . |
| 4 | It is difficult to decide whereas this has to be related to the different environmental conditions of the organisms considered ( i.e. thermophilic/ mesophilic ) or to evolution . |
| 5 | If this has to be done it must be ( for technical reasons ) within three years of his father 's death — by 30 May 1977 . |
| 6 | Note that in certain cases this has to be done as a formality and does not necessarily mean that there is anything suspicious about the death . |
| 7 | All this has to be done on my off-duty time , which of course is limited and irregular since I work shifts . |
| 8 | ( With the built-in weaving brushes on the standard sinker plate , this has to be done by hand . ) |
| 9 | This has to be done before the end of the time allowed for laying them before the general meeting and if any of the documents is not in the English language a certified translation must be annexed . |
| 10 | It is Joe Lawley 's opinion that we have no option but to dismantle it , but this has to be done with very great care if we are not to compound the damage done by sixty years of weather and so destroy it . |
| 11 | Vice-President Virgilio Godoy stated that the murder , which was seen as a setback for the attempt of President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro to promote national reconciliation , should not go unpunished and would have to be solved " even if this has to be done outside government institutions " . |
| 12 | This has to be done by the Tuesday before the weekly Friday sale so that potential buyers can then tune in to an electronic preview of the lots to be offered together with their weights , breed and feed methods . |
| 13 | Yeah it 's about time it were shaken up now that Labour Party er this government er , erm they 're agreeing to this , this has to be done and that has to be done you put notices up on buses all over Britain no smoking in the buses , now in the big restaurants they 're going to have to between now and July put notices up , no smoking in restaurants |
| 14 | ‘ But all this has to be seen in the context of what is going to happen to Britain and indeed the world in a climate of great tension between nations . ’ |
| 15 | This has to be seen to be appreciated , engines can be viewed from several angles , compared with one another , or taken in in one awe-inspiring vista . |
| 16 | This has to be seen against the Unionist belief that Asquith 's government was corrupt as well as irresponsible and radical . |
| 17 | This has to be seen in the context that the fastest growing section of the penal population is the 15–25-year-old age group , and indeed the Young Offenders White Paper 1980 , and the CJA 1982 are responses to this . |
| 18 | On arrival home they find their house has been destroyed by fire ( how writer David Renwick manages to get a laugh out of this has to be seen to be believed ) and they then have to do battle with the insurance company . |
| 19 | This has to be handled carefully if you are to ensure that you do n't lose the shape of the letters you are trying to incorporate in your design . |
| 20 | If this has to be conceded , the other side 's bargaining position is greatly strengthened . |
| 21 | All this has to be kept under wraps , Newman . |
| 22 | However , most economists ( and possibly politicians ) do accept that some form of control is required , and that this has to be exercised within one of the alternative frameworks . |
| 23 | This has to be achieved without adversely affecting design quality , a task that can prove quite challenging . |
| 24 | Basically they can add or subtract , and anything more complicated than this has to be achieved by breaking down the more elaborate procedures down to a sometimes large number of successive steps . |
| 25 | This has to be ruled out when the movement of the glass begins to make sense of letters , and even phrases . |
| 26 | This has to be distinguished very carefully from that kind of reformism which is simply concerned with the amelioration of an existing capitalist social order . |
| 27 | If team nursing is the pattern , then this has to be explained and the other members of the team for that shift can introduce themselves as and when necessary . |
| 28 | ‘ If a book like this has to be written , and in the end I think that it does , it could n't be better done . |
| 29 | Much of this has to be regarded as heroic in its assumptions . |
| 30 | While natural parents may be inadequate , even neglectful and cruel , this has to be balanced against the unsuitability of state agencies to fulfil the parental role , particularly in the long term . |