Example sentences of "to [be] [conj] [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the advances in information technology , answers to many questions could be delivered in minutes , not just on industrial issues , like how cold does it have to be before we stop work , or how heavy a load should I lift , but other questions not related to work that we have not always answered in the past . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Alright , th the saying in the paper , they 're talking about stopping these big companies , keeping these little companies waiting there could be something they can do about that , but how long is it going to be before they do something ? |
| 4 | ‘ And it would have to be before you require our services . |
| 5 | they say to me , how many of them do there have to be before you think you 've got enough on your list . |
| 6 | I think th the difficulty with that kind of day is that unless you 've decided what the outcome 's going to be before you start , you 're not actually going together are you ? |
| 7 | As Carmel finished the 3s , she came to me and whispered : ‘ I think I can see what the 5s are going to be before I do it ’ , and she explained her prediction . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The solution to ‘ He was not really afraid of any landlady ’ might appear to be that we have here a masked first-person avowal , and that it is simply an indication of Dostoevsky 's boldness that it should be surrounded by authorial statements which are firmly outside and ( so to say ) on top of Raskolnikov in the classical omniscient third-person mode : for example , information about his poverty , irritable frame of mind , withdrawal from society , his ‘ not naturally timorous and abject ’ disposition . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And I wonder if it seems to be that they prefer you come out of the upper drawer than come up with your brilliant A levels or whatever . |
| 12 | Assuming that all the materials you have are equally suitable for your students , the main distinguishing feature of the video materials is likely to be that they provide the most realistic examples of the language in use . |
| 13 | Instead , the main ingredient of success appears to be that they have consistently geared themselves to the needs of international trade . |
| 14 | Well one year it used to be that she come to us at dinner time |
| 15 | ‘ I imagine so ; there was certainly a big turnover … perhaps the answer to that question ought to be that I do not know . |
| 16 | The idea seems to be that you have tacitly accepted the protection of the laws and thereby you have tacitly undertaken to obey them . |
| 17 | ‘ But the difference with you Englishmen ’ , Mr Lewis said , ‘ seems to be that you do n't really hate the Germans any more . |
| 18 | It used to be but I think it 's an old |
| 19 | I doubt it actually , I think they , it ought to be but I do n't think erm the people appointing are likely to look outside the immediate environs , and |
| 20 | He 's not the player he used to be but I suppose you could say the same about me . ’ |
| 21 | expecting to be but you know , how , how could you be |
| 22 | Set in the lively end of town , and new for Summer '90 , the attractive Magamar apartments are the place to be if you want to see as much motion as lotion ! |
| 23 | I suppose you have to be if you sleep with an erstwhile nun . |
| 24 | Obviously that 'll have to be when we 've fixed the sites |
| 25 | And it 's not fair to say it 's because of the beard because the beard 's not my fault , they just did n't shave in the jungle in whatever century it 's going to be when we get there and I know I grew it early but that 's the way I am , I like to start thinking myself into the part as soon as possible . |
| 26 | It is most unlikely , said Taylor , that metal crystals are really as perfect as we suppose them to be when we do sums about their strength . |
| 27 | He 's made us really meet real people , you know what I mean , people with handicapped children , and to me I find them more real than some of my friends that live in another world , fantasising about the future , you know , ‘ What 's the kids going to be when they grow up ? ’ |
| 28 | It just shows , I think , how vigilant Councillors need to be when you get all these documents , and you do get many of them if you 're a District County Councillor , and how necessary it is for you to read them and study them and to remember because these things are very very important when they 're put in when it goes to higher authority at that time . |
| 29 | The realities of being in a situation where you ca n't choose your employment , which is an awful way to be when you do n't have any skills and you have to take whatever is dished out … there 's nothing worse than having to take what 's available . |
| 30 | Matza ( 1964 ) , whose ‘ soft determinist ’ position approximates the one under consideration , shows how arbitrary the answer to this question can be — in his case it seems to be when you have finished reading his book ! |