Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm the parts of the country where things have been a bit flat seem to be the north and the south west and both of those are regions in which export orders received fell in the previous two surveys so that seems to be consistent although in the north they seem to have picked up somewhat in this survey erm and optimism is also erm er stronger in this survey than it was in the previous one . |
| 2 | Yes , there 's a bit more plastering to be done yet . |
| 3 | A decision now has to be made about whether this rearrangement is acceptable for the time being or whether some further rearrangement might be more satisfactory . |
| 4 | A play really demands to be read aloud -it needs the sound of the human voice to bring it alive . |
| 5 | A user also has to be prepared for only rudimentary backup and restore features making NT a dicey choice for mission-critical and commercially sensitive environments . |
| 6 | Finally in Air Canada v. British Columbia ( 1989 ) 59 D.L.R. ( 4th ) 161 the Supreme Court of Canada , by a majority , held that there was no right to recover tax paid under a statute later found to be unconstitutional . |
| 7 | ‘ It was a timebomb just waiting to be ignited , ’ said a source . |
| 8 | Apparently , Halsbury then ‘ conceived the idea that the case should be re-argued before an enlarged body of Law Lords and that , in addition , the House should adopt once more the practice of summoning the High Court judges to advise ’ , a practice generally thought to be obsolete . |
| 9 | I 've got a ceiling just waiting to be painted . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ A sport just has to be a bit flexible . ’ |
| 11 | It thus represents , on the part of the supposedly non-modernist Hardy , a stratagem often taken to be definitively modernist : the use of an ancient fable to structure and resonate with a twentieth-century narrative , as the Odyssey structures and resonates with James Joyce 's Ulysses . |
| 12 | I wondered whether it could be drugs — that a caddie perhaps had to be made privy to , because the golfer had to be topped up during the round . |
| 13 | The core of their problem was that such a device necessarily had to be a computer and a powerful one . |
| 14 | However , a distinction surely has to be made between those presidents who alter the terms of the debate and change the course of history and those who achieve no more than marginal change . |
| 15 | In the second case , a theme still has to be identified and , for Firbas , this would be the least context-independent element ( i.e. the element with the lowest degree of CD ) . |
| 16 | Certainly a picture often seems to be ‘ framed ’ perfectly in such cases . |
| 17 | He 's a rare well preserved example of a person originally thought to be from the bronze age . |
| 18 | On Feb. 24 the government claimed to have bombed Jamba , a claim later acknowledged to be true by UNITA . |
| 19 | Experiments were carried out to determine the best formula to use for scoring the possible transitions in a text of 372 words derived from the Malhotra corpus ( Malhotra , 1975 ) , a corpus traditionally considered to be syntactically difficult to process . |
| 20 | But such a Code also has to be effective if applied . |
| 21 | This slab of a man still looked to be in his full prime . |
| 22 | Half a love surely had to be better than none at all ? |
| 23 | You may decide that a recording only needs to be viewed by the people involved in making it . |
| 24 | It is , indeed , quite a common occurrence for a government to have second thoughts about a Bill during or after its progress through the Commons and to use its supporters in the House of Lords to make the changes in a Bill then seen to be desirable . |
| 25 | Young H from Wallasey was a pretty major exception to this rule — he did the drop in of doom off the extension to flat bottom hipper , slashed about did mass ollies onto the extension , laybacks , wore an agnostic Front tee , and generally skated like he 'd been around since the sevs and was a dwarf just pretending to be under 16 . |
| 26 | As we shall discuss in the next chapter , there is a lot more work to be done before the causal process underlying this relationship is laid bare : we do not know whether it is through buying a better diet or better medical care , for example , that richer countries improve their life expectancy . |
| 27 | The problem of meeting the probable needs and wishes of the wider constituency which might now be considered eligible for some sort of formal association with the University after obtaining a qualification therefore needs to be addressed . |
| 28 | If the hon. Lady or Puffin Books can show that the use of the puffin symbol contravenes the text that I quoted from the 1986 voluntary agreement , without being bound by court procedures and legal niceties and technicalities , we have a system deliberately designed to be sufficiently flexible to allow action to be taken and new barriers which will not be allowed to be broken . |
| 29 | But what I thought of as a contribution often seemed to be less appreciated than the things I thought of as irrelevant and boring . |
| 30 | ‘ We have begun to lose our confidence in our institutions , the traditions and bodies that constitute a very large part of the national culture — especially in the monarchy which a year ago appeared to be one of the unassailable certainties of British life . ’ |