Example sentences of "[prep] be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's got ta be the right thing to do , ’ agreed Mueller readily . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've got ta be the only band in history to be sued by a comics company and a clothing company , ’ says Eugene , wryly . |
| 3 | See they said righto , the employer has got ta be the Dock Commission . |
| 4 | It 's er , the box is there , it 's just got ta be the actual phone unit 's got ta be put in |
| 5 | Yeah , you got ta be the same . |
| 6 | the same as still er raw and it did n't dawn on me , but then , oh I says it 's got ta be , I said it 's got ta be the |
| 7 | It 's still got ta be the |
| 8 | So you 've got ta be the one who tells him . |
| 9 | because to me it 's , it 's something like that everything , it 's got ta be the C P U in n it ? |
| 10 | This has got ta be the last one though has n't it ? |
| 11 | it 's got ta be the kid on the sports day , your joking me |
| 12 | I mean that 's got ta be the ultimate . |
| 13 | That 's got ta be the the used one though innnit ? |
| 14 | Sue was on about her daughter living with that bloke like , I do n't know if it was the same bloke , I just du n no , yes it is , yes it is , it 's got ta be the one , when she broke her shoulder , it 's got ta be , anyway he got no job and Sarah got this good job apparently wherever it is , I ca n't remember where it was |
| 15 | Cos it 's got ta be the same picture , you 're gon na match it are n't you ? |
| 16 | The winning nomination , sent in be the school 's assistant headteacher , Mrs. Brenda Hart , was a tongue-in-cheek statement that everyone worked together as a friendly and cheerful team to uphold school standards in spite of Government directives and the pressures of society ! |
| 17 | The classical pneumocystis pneumonia used to be the final event in the disease process in almost half ( 46% ) of those with AIDS in 1986 . |
| 18 | In 1986 , the classical pneumocystis pneumonia used to be the final event in the disease process in almost half ( 46% ) of AIDS related deaths . |
| 19 | In practical terms this means that although letter-writing to governments regarding prisoners continues to be the cornerstone of the campaign work other methods have been introduced to enhance the effectiveness of the hundreds of thousands of letters that Amnesty members write each year . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , increased use of the death penalty appears to be the most popular solution . |
| 21 | Even if historians are specifically interested in form , it is likely to be the history of forms , or the development of styles which will have attracted their attention . |
| 22 | He specialised in collecting the work of four artists he considered to be the true Cubists , Picasso , Braque , Leger and Gris . |
| 23 | A nut-brown man by South Kensington standards , he is light-skinned in the West Indies : he is a Chinese Negro , who thinks of himself as a hakwai Chinee — hakwai , he explains , being ‘ Chinese for nigger ’ — and who has not failed to notice that Emily Brontë 's Heathcliff is rumoured to be the Emperor of China . |
| 24 | Fraser was to be the author of Blood of Spain , an oral history of the Civil War . |
| 25 | Glasser was to be the author of a study of a Calabrian village , and the Spanish war bears a bleak meaning in the story he tells here . |
| 26 | Hora e sempre — this motto is inscribed on the front of Hawksmoor 's , the real Hawksmoor 's , Classical house at Easton Neston in Northamptonshire : Easton Neston has been reputed or imagined to be the original of Mansfield Park , which may be described as a house imagined by an opponent of the Gothic novel . |
| 27 | Poor Charles brings him to life again , however , for some further plagiarisms : a nest of antique-dealers , of antic disposition , in Chatterton 's native Bristol , have passed to Charles a cache of papers which , together with the discovery of what seems to be the portrait of an adult Chatterton , persuades him that the poet lived on . |
| 28 | All knowledge of life and lives , and indeed of history , is a good in itself , and seems likely to inform literary intelligence ; and in addition Amis 's novels would rather confuse if thought to be the work of an early Tudor writer . |
| 29 | I cherished the ambition to be the first ( perhaps the only ) Italian writer to describe the Yiddish world . |
| 30 | Patrick held both hands up in a gesture of peace , he smiled for a moment ; I 'm no trying to get at you personally but I just fucking feel that you cant expect the teacher to be the everything , the heavyweight boxing champion of the world . |