Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] to be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the honourable gentleman as always makes er more than a debating point , I think he makes a serious point which er deserves to be answered , erm it is not , if I can put it this way , the intention of these orders er to turn auditors into er snoopers or narks er and to do so I think runs some very serious risks , not only of reducing and undermining the relationship between auditors and their clients , not only of imposing very substantial additional cost burdens on auditors which will have to be borne by companies and ultimately their clients , but also there has an example he 's given I think to be some difference , put it no more than that between public money and private money , even though I acknowledge that were talking here about the trusteeship in some cases of of er d er public deposits and funds . |
| 2 | I 'm not saying they have to be any particular shape , not conventionally beautiful in any sense . |
| 3 | It ca n't be just figures it has to be some sort of er summation does n't it as well or not ? |
| 4 | They 've become acutely aware that to succeed they need to be more than just well-informed , they need to be well-read in the widest sense . |
| 5 | When the verdict came down over the radio earlier that afternoon , I thought it had to be some kind of misunderstanding — a joke . |
| 6 | And how did you come to be that ? |
| 7 | I who do you want to be that 's the thing who do you want to be ? |
| 8 | Do we want to be all that closely identified with the Government over a thing like this ? ’ |
| 9 | And why did it have to be this man above all others who made her heart beat that little bit faster ? |
| 10 | Of all the men I 've met since I even realised there was a difference between the sexes , why did it have to be this one who got under my skin ? ’ |
| 11 | And how did he come to be that ? |
| 12 | Can we erm does it have to be all on here or can we use ? |
| 13 | ‘ But does it have to be that way ? ’ |
| 14 | But why does it have to be that ? |
| 15 | yeah more than that , what have they got to be these words they got ta be words which really what , which really make you feel what ? |
| 16 | For no matter how much it is objected that it can not be stated definitely from these considerations just what the thing is like according to its nature , but only what it is like in respect to one thing or to another , it may still be said what there is in it which makes it appear to be this in respect to one thing and that in respect to another ; and consequently it may be said both to be one thing according to its nature and to be this or that in respect to other things . |