Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one thing all readers are likely to agree on is that Derrida is a very difficult writer , whether he is read in French or in English translation . |
| 2 | All they 've got to go on is that she spent a lot of time lying on the sofa , and that 's hardly unusual for a lady in her time and circumstances . |
| 3 | Right One of the things that er we try to pass on is that you 'll pick up a lot of information which may not be relevant to you but may be relevant to members of your family or friends . |
| 4 | One senior Hong Kong government official told New Scientist : ‘ One of the things we hope to find out is whether the system can be fiddled . |
| 5 | Of course the first thing we have to find out is whether your heart is in it ? ’ |
| 6 | All I have been able to find out is that he was a remote father . |
| 7 | What I wish to indicate here is that a new emphasis on a text 's negotiation with history does not allow us to reduce literary texts to the status of documents , writing which only exemplifies the preoccupations of certain periods past and present . |
| 8 | The point on which I want to concentrate here is that during the last two centuries changes in the law and in employment policies progressively have excluded both the youngest and the oldest generations from the labour market , and therefore from the means to support themselves through earning wages . |
| 9 | One of the items Unix System Labs and Adobe still have to sort out is whether to make Type Manager retroactively available to SVR4 licencees . |
| 10 | The thing to remember here is that the throttle should never be closed suddenly . |
| 11 | The atmosphere we 're able to create here is because there 's a total environment ; therefore everyone who works here makes a contribution towards therapy . |
| 12 | Another point to hit home was that in those cases where girls are prepared to give up everything to play on the Tour , they might as well do the job properly . |
| 13 | What I would like to suggest here is that the Buid view aggressive conduct as a sort of moral infirmity requiring explanation in much the same manner as does a physical infirmity . |
| 14 | Stated generally , the fundamental rationale he offers for having to do so is that he , either himself or as the agent of society , knew better than the patient what should be done to or for the patient . |
| 15 | The the great , the one thing about the Community Development Team to point out is that , they 've got people working on pa particular in particular ways with the community . |
| 16 | What Marx wants to stress here is that although Germanic tribes form quite large groups of people they do not form any kind of community with communal property , as was the case in the ancient city states ; they are merely ad hoc agglomerates . |
| 17 | The most important point to stress here is that , as Oakley ( 1974 ) points out , housework is work and should be compared with paid jobs outside the home . |
| 18 | The principle I would like to put forward is that if we are gon na place |
| 19 | We discussed preparation of the lines in Chapter Three , so all we want to emphasise now is that you remember to take a stake ( preferably fitted with a brightly coloured flag so that you do not lose it , or tread on it ) and that the line ends have swivel connections of adequate strength . |
| 20 | The little that she 'd been able to piece together was that Pamela was a barrister , that the house did , as Lucy had suspected , belong to her , and that she and Josie had been together for at least five years and probably longer . |
| 21 | What it is important to recognise here is that a text 's negotiation with the time of its historical production is a complex operation . |
| 22 | The most important thing to understand here is that people try to re-establish some sort of control over their situation . |
| 23 | The important point to emphasise here is that , because of management 's concerns with cost and quality , the application of robotics technology did not lead , as much publicity would suggest , to an improvement in work-life quality . |
| 24 | What I want to argue now is that there is a sense in which the symptom of this pessimism exist in the movement itself . |
| 25 | The only thing you had to watch out was that she did n't start to stagger and put one of them feet down on you a bit sharp , or fell on you as she were a-swaying about with her jink-back . |
| 26 | What we have to decide here is that you think is a is a |
| 27 | ‘ The message we want to get across is that we are here , so please come and see us , ’ said Mr. Barnes . |
| 28 | I think the the concept I want to get across is that the design of the application does not constrain the way that you implement , firstly a client server technology and secondly the use of your chosen relational database management system . |
| 29 | What I want to say now is that you are my mum and you feel like my mum again . |
| 30 | I think what is going to happen here is that you 're just going to get one mega-jam round about this region from about Hanger Lane onwards because there 's nothing really you can do about it . |