Example sentences of "this [vb -s] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this has to be overcome with comprehension both at home and within the community . |
| 2 | But this has to be consistent with the value of the produce as compared with the cost of the inputs . |
| 3 | Whether this ethic is actually held by the individual peasants concerned is irrelevant ; presumably they would be unable to specify the grounds for their own actions in this way , but what matters is that their behaviour actually appears to follow this rule , and this has to be sufficient explanation . |
| 4 | A book with a title like this has to be full of choice bits of information that confirm what most of us who have been in the Services have always known — that high-ranking officers can do the daftest things . |
| 5 | The underwriter has to take up shares if called upon to do so , and for this has to be able to obtain the necessary funds . |
| 6 | I 'm too weak to write much , so this has to be brief . |
| 7 | Well this wants to be red . |
| 8 | In some cases , this needs to be relieved by placing a drain ( catheter ) in the bladder for a few days . |
| 9 | This needs to be easy to uphaul and should offer fine control in light winds . |
| 10 | Of course , such an initiative as this needs to be flexible as not everyone will have the same background of experience , and individual needs will vary greatly . |
| 11 | This tends to be underemphasized in more ‘ localist ’ approaches like those of Duncan and Goodwin . |
| 12 | This ceases to be possible where a document accepted as binding is bindingly interpreted by an external court . |
| 13 | If , on the other hand , you travel about this ceases to be true . |
| 14 | This seems to be familiar Anglo-American territory , and to evoke New Critical or Empsonian ambiguity . |
| 15 | One may agree that the expression which Firth dismisses as nonsense has a curious ring to it but this seems to be due to the choice of lexis which results in a particularly inconsequential proposition which it is hard to imagine ever figuring in actual use . |
| 16 | Some say Sitha is a corruption of Etheldreds , sister to the Abbess Hilda of Whitby , but this seems to be wishful thinking . |
| 17 | This seems to be correct , for in a legal system where the potential treaty parties number only around two hundred , it is hard to assert that the identity of a treaty partner is immaterial . |
| 18 | This seems to be correct . |
| 19 | This seems to be true whether performance in measured in terms of growth in output , investment or employment . |
| 20 | This seems to be true in spite of the fact that Spinoza was very much of a generation which was concerned to dissociate itself from the Greek inheritance , and indeed he represents something of a fresh injection of Jewish moral feeling into the main Christian current of Western thought . |
| 21 | This seems to be true of N. lapillus as well . |
| 22 | From the transcript of the trial proceedings this seems to be unlikely , but no further testimony is now available to confirm or contradict the evidence . |
| 23 | We recommend that consideration should be given to this matter , since otherwise a successful appellant will have to bear his own costs , and this seems to be unjust . |
| 24 | This seems to be inconsistent with the proposition that a higher standard applies where the director possesses relevant skills , but is presumably explicable on the basis that the higher standard relates only to distinct forms of professional expertise , such as that of the actuary or the physician referred to by Romer J , and not where the experience or expertise that the director has acquired is that of a business manager . |
| 25 | In most cases , however , this appears to be insufficient to account for the amount of subsidence observed . |
| 26 | This appears to be subject to an exception where the licence was granted for a limited period of time and for a specific purpose . |
| 27 | This appears to be contradictory . |
| 28 | ‘ This appears to be miniature cricket bat , ’ he said , ‘ carrying the miniature signatures of a pygmy team . |
| 29 | However , this appears to be inconsistent with other cases ( see Victoria Fur Traders Ltd v Roadline ( UK ) Ltd [ 1981 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 570 where the plaintiffs had received air waybills over a period of 25 years and never read the terms on them ) and it seems clear that constructive notice of the terms will suffice . |
| 30 | This appears to be true of chimpanzees ( under poor food conditions ) , orang-utans , and spider monkeys which show neither coalition formation nor matrilines . |