Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Be on your guard as you travel — 2 pairs certainly seem to be . |
| 2 | The UN World Food Programme ( WFP ) confirmed on Sept. 5 , however , that 105,000 refugees still remained to be repatriated . |
| 3 | Thirteen families still have to be contacted , but hospital officials are confident they will be able to trace them . |
| 4 | The use of three strategies also proved to be popular , followed by one , and finally by four or more strategies . |
| 5 | Although it is widely agreed that successful innovations need to couple R&D , manufacturing , and marketing activities to ensure that new products can be manufactured at reasonable cost and are attractive to consumers , it is not completely obvious that this means that all three activities always need to be conducted under the same roof . |
| 6 | The overall flexibility which is clear when we take the three works together seems to be much less evident when we look at The Origin by itself . |
| 7 | ‘ I wouldn't. ever want to be a princess , ’ Dot sometimes said , because she wanted so much to be one . |
| 8 | The first five items here had to be held over to make space for the 1990 Social List in the March issue … |
| 9 | Only about fifty children actually had to be removed from their foster homes . |
| 10 | This hole , which runs parallel to the 10th , is not that long ( 420 yards ) , but that downhill run of nearly 60 feet now has to be traversed in the opposite direction . |
| 11 | Although the £2.7 million deal still has to be formalised , the Blackburn manager said : ‘ We are delighted . |
| 12 | Frederick Campbell , when District Judge at Tangalla , also noted that cattle stealing prosecutions were identical : ‘ For example , no two parties ever happen to be together , and witness the removal of a stolen animal , one sees the removal at one , and another at another place , whilst a third sees the removal of the flesh . ’ |
| 13 | While the top three or four companies now seem to be in reasonable financial shape it is the medium-sized firms in the top thirty that are feeling the pressure . |
| 14 | Joseph Bédier , the French scholar whose book published exactly a hundred years ago proved to be the inception of modern fabliau studies , inferred from the number of known authors and the number of anonymous fabliaux that only about one-eighth of the original corpus survives . |
| 15 | Three years after the death of little Henry Joseph , in January 1864 , William had been put apprentice to a gold-engraver in Clerkenwell , while Benjamin James , the academic star of the family , had gone off to Cheltenham two years later to train to be a teacher . |
| 16 | These two judgements certainly appear to be precisely correct , if we read the script through , concentrating simply on the story line . |
| 17 | Nine hundred pounds still had to be paid . |
| 18 | A few boys asked her out but never the right ones , never the ones she wanted to ask her , and Sally began to wonder how two people ever came to be in love with one another at the same time . |
| 19 | The two counties also happened to be playing a 2nd XI match at Stratford , where Cranmer made both his first and last appearance as a Warwickshire 2nd XI player . |
| 20 | That is to say , the effects of activating two components together have to be the sum of the effects of activating either in isolation . |
| 21 | Nonetheless the 1991–92 figure clearly needed to be brought back to a more affordable level , and during the ‘ star chamber ’ exercise in the spring to which referred last year , the contract with Westminster Strategy ( our PR consultants ) was renegotiated , and the budgeted figure for the current year has been reduced to £170,000 . |
| 22 | During the 1980S France increasingly claimed to be reaping the benefits of French and European space policy decisions taken in the 1973–5 period . |