Example sentences of "to be [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the real question seems not to be whether we should detect the disease but how best we should treat it if it is detected . |
| 2 | The main argument seems to be whether he could morally take up the titles of Head of the Church of England and Defender of the Faith . |
| 3 | Indeed , the only question seemed to be whether he should even bother to make a move , or just let her do everything for him . |
| 4 | It is a more bracing place to be than its rival , but much faded none the less from its days of greatest success in the last century , when it formed one end of the Route Therm ale , a new road system , decreed by the Emperor Napoleon III , which was to link Eaux-Bonnes with Bagnéres-de-Bigorre to the northeast . |
| 5 | He would no sooner place his arm where he wanted it to be than his upper body was wracked by a spasm . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | And how ill did you have to be before you died ? |
| 10 | they say to me , how many of them do there have to be before you think you 've got enough on your list . |
| 11 | If you were going to live your life again , how old would you think you 'd have to be before you felt mature enough to make the decision to get married ? |
| 12 | How old do you have to be before you can have the privilege of being murdered ? |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | ‘ And it would have to be before you require our services . |
| 15 | long it 's going to be before it 's all over and we can go home . ’ |
| 16 | You see ads for PCs promoting themselves as ‘ network-ready ’ and you wonder just how ready a PC needs to be before it can be used on a LAN . |
| 17 | The question then arises as to how specific the Community legislation has to be before it precludes national legislation . |
| 18 | How safe does a drug have to be before it receives a certificate ? |
| 19 | How long 's our Mum going to be before she comes in ? |
| 20 | Is he arguing — as he seemed to be before he lurched off into the quotation — that no examination result should be made available to Scottish parents ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | However , this was not to be since their drains were either late , abandoned , or non-existent , while promises of building sites were made and then had to be broken because of the absence of drains ! |
| 23 | ‘ At present the Government 's mind-set appears to be that nothing can be done without a smile of approval from Dublin , which never comes . |
| 24 | So riddled with complexities has this question proved to be that one is tempted to follow the example of the legendary definition of folk song — ‘ all songs are folk songs ; I never heard horses sing 'em ’ — and suggest that all music is popular music : popular with someone . |
| 25 | To what extent was your decision influenced by wanting to be that somebody , to make your mark in a field others had ignored ? |
| 26 | The Marxist ethical imperative seems to be that whatever advances the cause of the proletariat or the advent of communism is ‘ ideologically correct ’ . |
| 27 | So what we need to be able to identify is that , al although we will gain the worst scenario ought to be that whatever we lose in terms of auto-off reports and units reports to some extent we should be gaining by the improved productivity overall . |
| 28 | The true position seems to be that something done or promised before the promise sued on is not by itself treated as a sufficient reason for the enforcement of the promise . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |