Example sentences of "to be [adj] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These may or may not have significance ; what needs to be certain is that descriptions are accurate , for if they are wrong , deductions from them will be valueless . |
| 2 | Two other requirements that Beccaria makes of punishments for them to be effective are that they should be prompt and certain . |
| 3 | A search for discrepancies was agreed to be the best avenue of research and one of the more convincing arguments put forward for the work not to be genuine was that the Kouros combines stylistic elements that run from early to late sixth century BC . |
| 4 | In Lonrho plc v. Fayed the facts which the court was required to assume to be true were that the defendants had made fraudulent misrepresentations about themselves to the Secretary of State in order to influence him not to refer their bid for H.F. Co. to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 5 | One of the main reasons for wanting one 's own basic beliefs to be infallible is that this would guarantee that they are all true . |
| 6 | This is act seventeen , nineteen sixty three which basically requires that parents , one or both , of a child to be baptised be or be prepared to become full communicant members of the church . |
| 7 | I suppose the reason I got down to an effort to be objective is that I did n't like the interpretations of my other things — so here I am with an array of alligator pears — about ten of them — calla lilies — four or six — leaves — summer green ones — ranging through yellow to the dark sombre blackish purplish red — eight or ten — horrid yellow sunflowers — two new red cannas — some white birches with yellow leaves — only two that I have no name for and I do n't know where they come from . |
| 8 | Their only claim to be local is that they are implemented in a restricted geographical area — but then so are certain aspects of defence and foreign policy ! |
| 9 | The only thing that 's ever wrong with saying something you believe to be false is that you do it in order to mislead someone whom you think will believe what you say . |