Example sentences of "'s [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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1 | We were not sure how that would affect the cash flows of the authority , and set a very er cautious level for interest on revenue balances , and as members can see , that has been very well exceeded , er its superseded by some one point one million pounds in ninety-three , four and it 's expected to be of a similar level in ninety-four , ninety-five . |
2 | EPA officials say they do n't know who prepared what 's come to be known as the EPA 's hit-list . |
3 | It now seems possible that the Abortion Pill , as it 's come to be called , will be available some time next year . |
4 | He says he 's a teen idol who 's grown to be very rich . |
5 | And Richard 's decided to be right-handed after all this time . |
6 | Police have this afternoon been trying to question the girl , who 's said to be extremely distressed . |
7 | You get the same kind of picture you can get with X-rays , with what 's reckoned to be no harm whatsoever . |
8 | erm not only that , but erm whereas in the past it 's tended to be at the prerogative of the education people , as it were , the teachers and the heads and the educational psychologists , to make the initial moves in categorization or making a statement , now the parents have a right to ask for an assessment , so perhaps in your case to your question it would have been yes , you could have in fact have erm initiated the moves . |
9 | er present work , and so I mean , you , you , could say we 'll take it , er two or three hundred complaints from London , and buy time I suppose , erm to see if if if er work up here had picked up or natural wastage went or what ever , erm , if it did n't go up then , I mean in the long term , erm one could n't envisage keeping on with more staff than what 's thought to be a fairly generously assessed formula anyway , says we need . |
10 | One hundred and twenty people are thought to be dead and more than fifty are injured in what 's thought to be China 's worst air disaster . |
11 | The study 's thought to be the first of its kind in Britain and shows a generally positive response to conditions in the county 's fifteen council run homes . |
12 | Erm I mean he he he 's bought , I mean the presents he 's bought to be honest I mean I think oh my god what a waste . |
13 | No , no , no , no , no , he said , it 's got to be the real thing , you 've got to start out as you mean to go on Get it right from the beginning . |
14 | It 's got to be a good loaf of bread , like that one you buy down the road , the black one , that 'll do . |
15 | There 's got to be development and opportunities . |
16 | There 's got to be an element of the entrepreneur . |
17 | I think there 's got to be determination , consistency , the ability to listen to other people and then make your mind up and stick to it . |
18 | Would n't have minded sipping pink gins aboard a cruiser myself , but the job 's got to be done and we have got plenty worth fighting for . |
19 | ‘ I would n't feel dressed without something on my head or a really good hairdo — it 's got to be a hairdo or a hat ! ’ |
20 | ‘ It 's got to be a sugared pill , always . |
21 | You ca n't expect a man to walk around thinking he 's got to be grateful to them for the rest of his life — it 's ludicrous . |
22 | It 's got to be an American . |
23 | Lowering his head , he said , ‘ I 'm sorry , Mark , but that 's the way they want it , and that 's the way it 's got to be . |
24 | ‘ What — what 's got to be done by two o'clock ? |
25 | But she 's got to be Al . |
26 | ‘ There 's got to be eighty of 'em and another to tell 'em what to do . ’ |
27 | No event just ‘ happens ’ ; it 's got to be created . |
28 | ‘ We thought : there 's got to be something we can do with all that wood . ’ |
29 | When I produce the new album , it 's got to be good . ’ |
30 | ‘ There 's got to be some form of addiction there , ’ he acknowledged . |