Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] [vb base] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rewards of a more subtle kind thus have to be substituted . |
| 2 | Although they were at the agricultural policies undoubtedly continue to be relevant , still have a significant part to play in many current situations . |
| 3 | In addition , practical methods for solving the matrix homogeneous Hilbert problem for particular non-colinear cases still need to be developed . |
| 4 | For example , in the case of developing and marketing a new product , however well the market has been researched and however convincing the volume figures may appear , some inducements inevitably have to be offered to customers in order to encourage them to switch their expenditure from other products . |
| 5 | Be on your guard as you travel — 2 pairs certainly seem to be . |
| 6 | The top riders never appear to be hurrying — in fact Mark Todd often appears to be quite casual as he clocks up the fastest time of the day . |
| 7 | At the other end of the scale there are meals that will linger in the mind long after the credit card has recovered , and blowouts at top restaurants still tend to be cheaper than their London counterparts . |
| 8 | Some candidates still seem to be anticipating an examination paper that exclusively tests discrete technical topics ( for example , leasing , deferred tax , disposals , pensions and foreign currency translation ) . |
| 9 | Even with only the headings entered some columns obviously need to be widened . |
| 10 | Contracts should be changed to introduce more risk , even if some directors then have to be paid more . |
| 11 | Climbs of this nature always seem to be peculiarly technical , despite the lack of any well-defined moves . |
| 12 | The result of this is sometimes a multi-patterned litter of kittens , which some owners mistakenly consider to be the outcome of ‘ genetic variety ’ within the make-up of their female and an unknown ‘ husband ’ . |
| 13 | Some people just want to be told what to eat . |
| 14 | There were several weak points in this critique and perhaps at the very least it can be argued that foreign films with social themes always appear to be more realistic merely because the subject-matter and personnel are new . |
| 15 | Some players also seem to be worried about how to identify which string is which and I can understand that , because it 's no good breaking a string during a gig and not knowing which spare to grab . |
| 16 | Private space where people have some resources , is smart and well cared for , but the public spaces always seem to be mucky or breaking down . |
| 17 | As it is , not only is the average specification of cars sold in Britain the highest in Europe , but cars destined for the British market also tend to be bigger , with ‘ upper-medium-sized ’ cars disproportionately popular compared with elsewhere in Europe . |
| 18 | Oncogenic mutations in this gene consistently appear to be recessive , loss of function mutations that result in an absent or non-functional protein . |
| 19 | We have failed to grasp it and , although some of the eastern European countries now seem to be succeeding in the adaptation to a market economy , many others , including Russia , are likely to fail . |
| 20 | Rural institutions and local government in rural areas often tend to be dominated by a powerful and unrepresentative minority which represents its own interests rather than those of the majority . |
| 21 | Without mourning on our part , can future generations ever hope to be blessed , and to bless the earth in their turn ? |
| 22 | Very often , these mutually unintelligible and exclusive ethnic cultures just happen to be the same as the groups which common sense tells us are ‘ races ’ . |
| 23 | Such areas also tend to be the cheapest to get into . |
| 24 | Thirteen families still have to be contacted , but hospital officials are confident they will be able to trace them . |
| 25 | Although such problems still need to be overcome and further extensive field trials are required , it is likely that varieties of plants expressing the Bt toxin will be commercially available by the late 1990s . |
| 26 | Contemporary changes therefore need to be placed in the context of a continuous process of change in English rural society that has affected both the character and the structure of English villages throughout their history . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , such feelings often tend to be both unpleasant to experience and to hinder behaviour . |
| 28 | Once universal statements are involved in a significant way , the probabilities of the correctness of individual predictions again threaten to be zero . |
| 29 | Fragments of papyri from the second millennium BC seem to be the first writings to deal exclusively with the subject matter of dreams , mainly concerning themselves with incest and bestiality with various animals . |
| 30 | How could anything so demonstrably inferior to the real thing ever pretend to be it , and with such potential ( or feared ) success that the parliament of an ‘ advanced western democracy ’ must legislate against it ? |