Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second is transfer pricing : a subject which has received considerable attention in academic study , but where practice frequently seems to be restricted to what in theory may be regarded as the least satisfactory approaches . |
| 2 | But if , by any chance , the reporter 's wife or husband also happens to be an Environmental Health Officer somewhere else , and happens to know that he or she is going off to do an interview , and say , ‘ Hey . |
| 3 | Where goodwill still has to be valued in relation to payments to outgoing partners , one of two bases is likely to be used : ( 1 ) excess profits , that is to say the amount by which an outgoing partner 's profit share exceeded ( a ) what he might have been expected to earn as an employed solicitor , and ( b ) the income he might have been expected to receive from investing his capital contributions in safe securities ; or , and much more frequently , ( 2 ) the average net profits of the partner concerned . |
| 4 | And , blessedly , it was facts that Morse now seemed to be concentrating on as , forgetting Aldrich for the moment , he browsed once again through the questionnaires . |
| 5 | Although Churchill sometimes appeared to be unhappy about it , planning for the peace was widely accepted as a legitimate political task during the war . |
| 6 | It turns out that bosons positively like to be in the same state together . |
| 7 | He believes that manufacturers simply need to be aware of the electromagnetic environments surrounding their products just as they would be aware of temperatures . |
| 8 | TRAINING Running costs had already been identified in the business plan although funds still had to be released officially from the health authority budget . |
| 9 | Much time is lost because of an assumption that the language of literature is ‘ difficult , mysterious and obscure ’ and that texts therefore have to be paraphrased line by line and events carefully summarised . ’ |
| 10 | Floy was sleeping where he sat , his head resting on his folded arms , a look of such exhaustion on his face , that Fenella almost wished to be back on Renascia fighting Quilp and the Council and trying to plan to outwit the Dark Lodestar . |
| 11 | Additionally , his father 's side of the family were very enthusiastic adherents of the British Empire and in addition to their being ( as Leonard preferred to call them ) ‘ gentlemen of Hebrew persuasion , ’ they were perhaps more British in some respects than the British themselves , recalling what Hugh MacLennan said in his superb novel of the period , The Two Solitudes : ‘ The French are Frencher than France and the English are more British than England ever dared to be . ’ |
| 12 | Anderson does not deny that kin probably continued to be the main and the most reliable source of aid for migrants into the expanding towns , as they had been in the rural communities ( mostly in Lancashire and Ireland ) from which the migrants came . |
| 13 | On last week 's events — Wabi and the Microsoft/Insignia roll-out ( UX No 434 and see pages one and three ) — Burnham says he 's glad that vendors finally seem to be acknowledging the importance of the application community with real initiatives . |
| 14 | On last week 's events — Wabi and the Microsoft Corp-Insignia Solutions Ltd roll-out , Burnham says he 's glad that vendors finally seem to be acknowledging the importance of the application community with real initiatives . |
| 15 | The point , though , is that Neath never asked to be set on this pedestal . |
| 16 | It all looked so carefree , so enticingly Mediterranean and relaxed , that Caroline suddenly longed to be able to forget her business , abandon all her years of hard work , hop on board one of those yachts and sail off indefinitely towards the hazy blue horizon … |
| 17 | Now that report usually had to be filed 48 hours after he went down . |
| 18 | All Girls under twenty-one had to get written permission from their parents and although fathers still tended to be against the idea , no one appeared to have committed forgery . |
| 19 | A myth abounds that women just need to be told they are going to meet the Princess of Wales and they go into labour . |
| 20 | On the resumption Kilkeel were awarded three consecutive penalty corners but they were unable to add to their slender advantage , and the direct long ball tactic from Service meant that Kilkeel always had to be alert to the breakaway . |
| 21 | It is argued that these groups have a vested interest in distorting reality to ensure that America always appears to be under threat so that they can force the president and Congress to finance the lavish and unnecessary programmes which they desire . |
| 22 | But the UN , which is trying harder than SWAPO probably realised to be an honest broker , had almost nobody on the ground anyway . |
| 23 | Approved race jeans and shirt also have to be worn . |
| 24 | Doctors and nutritionists always seem to be telling us to eat less of the foods we enjoy . |
| 25 | Flip over and you 'll find equally impressive tunes from Liberty City and Interceptor patiently waiting to be tried and tested , both estimable club-friendly giants sleepwalking through Deep House style lobbies and thoroughly warranting as much attention as ‘ Reach Me ’ . |
| 26 | … goods like fruit and vegetables often have to be thrown away . |
| 27 | It is , of course , not easy to interpret the columns of figures which appear in the school brochure — and headteachers often seem to be adept at presenting their results in positive terms . |
| 28 | ‘ Sleeping tablets will get you to sleep but can cause hangovers and a bleary feeling , and businessmen often have to be at meetings within half an hour of landing . |
| 29 | I knew that if I let it go it would collapse on to a teapot and mugs still waiting to be cleared from the sideboard , which would confuse the situation still further . |
| 30 | In general , salaries are no higher than can be expected in England , and the cost of living ( coupled with health insurance costs ) may actually be prohibitively expensive in many areas ; people still have to work , and bills still have to be paid . |