Example sentences of "[vb pp] to be [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whoever it was had to be desperate to be running through fog as thick as this . |
| 2 | So now I 've got to be cruel to be kind . |
| 3 | but I mean it depends also I suppose erm , when your aiming for is the market , and I , I , I would like to have my work published but I also like to perform it and its got to be attractive to be looked at , in the first instance in , on a page its not known , er , there is , there is a lot of debate at the moment about using erm pages for poetry and some poets have actually starting using , writing from the wrong side and , and , and , and writing in the shape of a poem , for instance , if , what poem I was thinking off was a , was a waterfall so it was cascading the words cascading , you almost have to pick , ha , ha , have a choice of , of words that you want to fit into a particular thing , erm I think that 's had its place , but I think it can be a bit off putting as well , yeah , but it exciting , yeah definitely . |
| 4 | got to be careful to be right on in that respect , I think |
| 5 | Because , in the current climate of debate , the drive to preserve the boundaries of class through culture can dissolve ( slip ? ) too easily into a concern with race , with the myth of white ethnicity , the myth , that is , that you 've got to be white to be British . |
| 6 | ‘ If we 're going to break through , we 've got to be prepared to be quick on the button and to say quite risky things . ’ |
| 7 | A.3.1 The Vendor will forthwith notify in writing to the Purchaser any matter or thing which may arise or become known to any of them after the date of this Agreement ( whether or not prior to Completion ) which is inconsistent with any of the Warranties or which is or may reasonably be anticipated to be material to be known by a Purchaser for value of the Business . |
| 8 | So one thing that was mentioned this morning was somebody wanted to be able to be more persuasive in order to put a point of view across . |