Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I decided , right from the beginning , there should be nothing to suggest walking . |
| 2 | If a parent wants behaviour to stop there should be something to take its place . |
| 3 | If you can be confident that the person in charge is both perceptive and fair , the review meeting should be something to welcome , not to dread . |
| 4 | As you will see from Chapter 5 , investment can take many different forms and among the list of different options there should be something to suit almost everyone . |
| 5 | A wide range of other indoor and outdoor activities means that there should be something to suit all tastes . |
| 6 | Obviously there are certain key factors to any sort of reasonable living space : walls and ceiling will have to be decorated along with all the woodwork ; windows and floors have to be treated in some way ; there must be light both to see by and to enhance the space ; there should be something to sit on and probably to eat from and almost certainly somewhere to work at times . |
| 7 | My Lords , er the principle of co-option has been described as by a number of Your Lordships as an extension of principal of democracy , but I call on my experience not as er of a year as er Minister for the Police under my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw , but my three years as Minister for the Prison Service er and er in that er service , there was erm in each prison a Board of Prison Visitors and I observed during that time that the membership of the prison population was becoming increasingly black , but that the membership of the er Boards of Prison Governors was remaining stubbornly white and I er put it , I made it then that I thought there should be something to redress this balance er the system is as it were a supervised co-option , the local er Board makes a proposal and the Minister approves or does n't , but also I had to refuse five successive of proposed co-options of white members to an all-white prison board for a prison which was predominantly black in population because it was alleged there were no suitable black people available . |
| 8 | Even if you are only seeing a few people there should be someone to greet them on arrival and make them feel they have come to the right place on the right day . |
| 9 | Kevin Smith , brother of Hot Rod superstar Steve , took a heat and final double that night , and must be one to watch . |
| 10 | Both men were silent for a moment then , clutching at a straw , Herr Nordern said , ‘ It must be something to do with you . |
| 11 | The driver 's eagerness must be something to do with Harry being a good customer , a hint to both turbojet fuel consumption and his enthusiastic utilisation . |
| 12 | ‘ I think it must be something to do with the pickled cabbage . |
| 13 | Of course , the noises must be something to do with the Devil 's work in the middle of the night . |
| 14 | Then there will be some days when nothing seems to resolve and so I always forget those days and do something else completely — I am sure it must be something to do with electricity in the air . ’ |
| 15 | It must be something to do with being an anthropologist , she decided . |
| 16 | It must be something to do , he decided , with her lack of a formal education . |
| 17 | Must be something to do with those intellectuals at Oxford : - ) ) ) |
| 18 | Must be something to do with the age difference . |
| 19 | They 're l lead men you know and he has er painted this and it must be something to do with these men but these drawings now , I 've never seen drawings like them |
| 20 | It must be something to do with you . |
| 21 | There must be something to individuate the thinking in question . |
| 22 | Mrs Aggie gave her a shilling a week , because , as she said , she was her assistant ; for there must be someone to hold the horse and look after the cart and see that the children did n't nick … steal the clothes off it . |
| 23 | There must be someone to fit the bill in the League of Ireland Declan ? |
| 24 | He crouched still for a time after that , for there was no haste , and now that it was time he found himself afraid ; there might be something to lose there , as well as something to find . |
| 25 | They suffered from bronchial diseases — even the children — and Jane made herself unpopular by suggesting it might be something to do with the ubiquitous air conditioning . |
| 26 | It might be something to do with the weather or with the experiences of travelling to the meeting . |
| 27 | It might be something to do with the two four foot tanks in his hallway or the huge 6′ × 2′ × 2′ Tanganyikan set-up in his lounge , housing among others , some fine Frontosas . |
| 28 | This morning , I had a horrible feeling that the news might be something to do with me . |
| 29 | This degree of self-inflicted pain , which might be something to do with his opium , clearly though is starting to challenge his conceptions about himself , and therefore about the world . |
| 30 | Oh , it might be something to do with the . |