Example sentences of "[prep] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I suppose probably people li like nursemaids and er and er what they used to call in those days mothers ' helps , who used to sort of be a general skivvy around the house and would look after the children , and , and , and they were the same , they had to be in I think at , at sort of ten o'clock at night . |
| 2 | Oh , it 's got ta be a flat roof then . |
| 3 | It 's got ta be a good thing if you miss it bad enough . |
| 4 | You 've got ta be a good girl and cross at the traffic island which is up there opposite . |
| 5 | When you go to nursery you 've got ta be a good boy otherwise Mrs M , Mrs Wilkins will tell you off . |
| 6 | Well you see it 's got ta be a reasonable fit . |
| 7 | Got ta be a certain level , O sev , A |
| 8 | It 's got ta be a bright colour . |
| 9 | and then after the course there 's got ta be a post-evaluation form fed out . |
| 10 | If those figures are right of four hundred and ten now you do n't need to be a real big mathematician , even at this time of night , but you , if you have the two hundred and thirty four out of commission and you 've got to have those cos that 's got ta be a rolling programme each four years . |
| 11 | The lyrics are pretty much standard , if mild , slackness , a typical ragga-gruff voice explaining how you 've got ta be a top shag to please a girl . |
| 12 | It 's only got ta be a little tin foil . |
| 13 | It 's er , the box is there , it 's just got ta be the actual phone unit 's got ta be put in |
| 14 | ‘ It 's got ta be the right thing to do , ’ agreed Mueller readily . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've got ta be the only band in history to be sued by a comics company and a clothing company , ’ says Eugene , wryly . |
| 16 | I mean that 's got ta be the ultimate . |
| 17 | The reasons for this flexibility are that little party capital is made out of these alterations and since the Treasury fears forestalling , it is held that there c ; in be no prior negotiations about tax changes with outside interests . |
| 18 | Both agreed that there would seem to be no rational explanation , but everything pointed to the fact that Aubrey Clark was revisiting his old signal box . |
| 19 | There were to be no mechanical or electrical improvements . |
| 20 | Police said yesterday there appeared to be no sectarian motive for the killing . |
| 21 | The pygmies of Central Africa can not find enough food in the Zaire forests and , indeed , there seems to be no unambiguous ethnographic account of any people living solely off forest products and the only tropical areas where it is believed that such people might have lived are in central Malesia . |
| 22 | There was to be no all-powerful central state apparatus , and political leaders were to be given no blank cheques ; on the contrary , they were to be hedged in by a complex , decentralized and fragmented system designed to prevent any one leader or group of leaders from becoming excessively powerful . |
| 23 | Me : ‘ I told you there were to be no bug-eyed monsters in Doctor Who . ’ |
| 24 | But our crowded islands were as vulnerable as Japan 's had been to atomic attack , and there appeared to be no sure defence against it . |
| 25 | There seemed to be no real point in arguing with her . |
| 26 | Although it is a close-run thing arithmetically , there seems to be no real basis for this charge of bastardy . |
| 27 | Thirdly , I shall look at those Christian feminists who believe there to be no real gap , so that the problem is thereby solved . |
| 28 | If you charter from Corsica — where there seemed to be no real shortage — take as much extra as you can manage . |
| 29 | There was to be no real rapport — with Peter Cook allegedly burning the first Oz in a Soho pub — until the Oz trial five years later . |
| 30 | And yet for most people there seems to be no real alternative — and they expect none . |