Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] to be [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said apologetically " Well , he has had to be careful so long , watching every tiny little thing he does , I suppose … " |
| 2 | There 's a huge amount of detail and the technique has got to be perfect otherwise the painting should be an absolute mess . |
| 3 | There 's a huge amount of detail and the technique has got to be perfect otherwise the painting should be an absolute mess . |
| 4 | In good British fashion , however , that change has tended to be piecemeal rather than comprehensive . |
| 5 | In some cases such strife has proved to be recurrent over twenty years , as in Zaire , Sudan , and Burundi and in others more or less endemic , as in Chad and Uganda and in Ethiopia in its fight to contain Eritrea . |
| 6 | The system has proved to be flexible thus enabling enhancements to be made — enhancements which quite often could not have been thought of at the initial design stage , since the concept of an integrated payroll and personnel function was very much new ground . |