Example sentences of "has [prep] be very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , one has to be very cautious about making such predictions . |
| 2 | The approach to the senior staff of a Company has to be very cautious when putting forward a policy for alcoholism , drug addiction or other forms of addictive disease in the work-place . |
| 3 | Handling of the wounded tissue has to be very gentle and non-traumatic and the knot has to be placed tension-free . |
| 4 | What annoys him is people who say Moliere is not funny : ‘ I do n't read reviews although I understand we have done extremely well , but a couple thought it has to be very serious . |
| 5 | His distrust of federalism has to be very great to make such absurd claims . |
| 6 | One has to be very clear-headed to do what I am doing . |
| 7 | For this mechanism to work , the unseen object has to be very small , like a white dwarf , neutron star , or black hole . |
| 8 | Actually I think somebody who gets a CSE grade 1 has to be very good , far better than somebody who can only just scrape an ‘ O ’ level grade C … |
| 9 | I want to emphasise that if the acute care of myocardial infarction is to be effective , it has to be very acute care . |
| 10 | He says that they have little information to go on , so the search has to be very wide . |
| 11 | When the Congregational Union officially urged this new course on the colleges in 1902 there was still a long way to go : A. M. Fairbairn warned Sir Alfred Dale , then Principal of University College , Liverpool , ‘ I think one has to be very careful as to giving the theological colleges power over the regulation of degrees . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm sure it is , too , ’ said their Guider , ‘ but one has to be very careful about offering money to proud and independent old folk like Miss Miggs . ’ |
| 13 | She now has to be very careful how she goes . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've never had much to do with village life , but I believe one has to be very careful , ’ she explained ; ‘ and we do n't want to set the place by the ears the moment we 've arrived . |
| 15 | Limitations on the amount recoverable for loss of life ( some £38,000 under the 1974 Athens Convention ) and for losses to cargo and vehicles show that the haulier has to be very careful when undertaking operations involving cross-channel ferries . |
| 16 | The optimistic consensus is that they do n't but that one has to be very careful about making them , and the level of detail one can achieve may not be as great as one may like . |
| 17 | Yes good , cos everything that we do has to be very careful recorded and taking the photographs and doing the the drawings and sketches that 's one of the ways of recording . |
| 18 | What this case clearly shows is that one has to be very careful in assuming that in restraint of trade cases a phrase ascribed a meaning in one case will also be ascribed the same meaning in another . |
| 19 | I think one has to be very careful here . |
| 20 | They 're not on show because displaying costume is very difficult , because you have to have very strict environment control ; and light has to be very dim and you have to watch the relative humidity . |
| 21 | Because marble is ultra-pure calcium carbonate , the technique for trace analysis has to be very sensitive and instrumental neutron activation analysis has proved ideal for this . |
| 22 | So the Minister has to be very clear , when he comes to the Dispatch Box , whether any company applying to take over STG subsidiaries will be required to take on board the specifications laid down by the disabled persons transport advisory committee . |
| 23 | ‘ To achieve the objectives we have , everyone has to be very clear about the nature of the business and the nature of the challenge we are facing and what their role is in responding to it . |
| 24 | If the fixed charge has to be very high it may induce people to abandon consumption of the commodity altogether . |
| 25 | To obtain a low resonant frequency , the inductance has to be very large since it is difficult to achieve very high capacitance . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's a spell that has to be very fresh indeed for it to work , ’ he said . |
| 27 | ‘ It has to be very bad indeed for that . |
| 28 | Until we demonstrate that , the case for increasing expenditure on elderly people has to be very modest , and related to what evidence we have about whether it will improve their welfare . ’ |