Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] be [adv] [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mother has to be completely sure that she wants to wean her child from the breast or bottle : her motivation is essential for this to succeed . |
| 2 | Although it appears to be generally true that erosion is concentrated on the more exposed portions of the coast , one occasionally finds examples of marked marine erosion in extremely sheltered positions . |
| 3 | I knew he , I did n't know him , I did n't know him , but I do go and see him when I saw this case was covered up , and it seems to be utterly unreasonable that this poor old chap was going to have doors slamming and banging , and then people coming out the Dance about midnight , and his whole life being disrupted , so I I turned on there , unknown to my own Council , oh , they were cross with me . |
| 4 | It also seems to be roughly true that in domestic breeds of sheep the horns are more tightly coiled — they display greater torsion — whereas in the wild the horns of many antelopes are long , straight , extended twists . |
| 5 | The incoherence I think is that you ca n't ever say that anyone has lost because you do n't know what 's happening in the second and third and fourth erm batch , so I ca n't see how this system is meant to work , Mill seems to be fairly confident that it will . |
| 6 | It seems to be quite clear that there would be no tax charge upon the beneficiary under general principles because of the obligation of the borrower to repay the loan . |
| 7 | The second possibility that Nikolaev committed the murder under the guidance of the NKVD seems to be more likely that the first possibility because so many people seem to have conveniently neglected their duties but I still think that it is not the most likely . |
| 8 | Joyriders are a real hazard in and around Scotswood Road , and there seems to be very little that people can do about them , other than give warnings and make arrests . |