Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The message the voice has to impart is well-known to the users of this service : ‘ Good morning , ladies and gentlemen inaudible earlier defective train leading to inaudible cancellations inaudible delays to all destinations . ’ |
| 2 | One thing Novell needs to avoid is internal conflict over what it sells — otherwise it gets into DEC 's position of having Unix on the books , but preferring to push its proprietary offerings . |
| 3 | The horse will gallop off in terror , not realising that all it has to do is open its jaws to free itself from its tormentor . |
| 4 | In the modern age he is expected to lead and the people look to him for solutions to their problems , but the chances of his being allowed to do what he needs to do are negligible . |
| 5 | On one such model what law has to offer are certain types of humanly contrived institutions : legislatures , courts , enforcement agencies , and a certain way of going about making and applying binding rules . |
| 6 | We have made a major contribution to the overall income of pensioners , while all that the Labour party has to offer is inflationary erosion of savings , a failure in home ownership and many other schemes that Labour has offered ; although such proposals make it seem that pensioners are better off , because they are offered with other features , in reality it is a small percentage rise . |
| 7 | In mid-Buckinghamshire the average of 6d. or 7d. looks to have been inclusive of house and outbuildings for , according to an Aylesbury rental dated 1532 , land without buildings commanded not more than 4d. , examples being 3 acres for 1s. , three roods for 3d. , and 55 acres for £1. 2s. 10d . |
| 8 | What the right hon. Gentleman has to say is economic illiteracy . |
| 9 | Mr Reilly says he wants to stop being reactive . |
| 10 | Criticising new Dublin senator Gordon Wilson 's comments that the IRA men he plans to meet were human beings and had suffered too , the East Belfast MP said : ‘ They have n't suffered half enough . ’ |
| 11 | To claim that things of a certain sort exist , it might be said , is no different , truth-functionally at least , from claiming that a certain disjunction of singular propositions about entities of which the world happens to consist is true . |
| 12 | S 1(1) provides that ‘ a person is guilty of an offence if — ( a ) he causes a computer to perform any function to secure access to any program or data held in any computer ; ( b ) the access he intends to secure is unauthorised ; and ( c ) he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ A person is guilty of an offence if — ( a ) he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer ; ( b ) the access he intends to secure is unauthorised ; and ( c ) he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case . |
| 14 | The chief marshal notified to the police appears to have been inexperienced and relatively ineffective . |
| 15 | Whatever the base we take , yesterday 's education always appears to have been golden . |
| 16 | He appears to have been pleased that someone was fostering the substance which so interested him , and went away with a sample of Oxford material , which was more potent than any he had himself prepared . |
| 17 | In some cases this appears to have been due to privileged access to knowledge not yet available to those lower down the hierarchy , as in cases where plans were in preparation for the closure , merging or reorganisation of schools being proposed . |
| 18 | From these later inspections , the proportion of children with problems appears to have been low : for example , of four schools in Shepherds Bush , London , sending 670 children to Pontypridd in June 1940 , there were ‘ only one or two with a few nits ’ ; of 300 children being evacuated from Northwold Road Public Elementary School , in the East End , in June 1940 , only twenty-five were marked as needing special attention ( or 8% ) , comprising one with scabies , five with nits , eight with eneurisis ( bed-wetting ) and eleven with ‘ other conditions ’ ; of 1,211 children going from Stretford ( Manchester ) schools in the same month , only eighty suffered from vermin or nits , and only fourteen from eneurisis . |
| 19 | If the success of the service is measured against an economic criterion , it appears to have been partial , at least in its early years . |
| 20 | This patient also showed speech limited initially to simple words and phrases during the early post-operative period but her auditory comprehension appears to have been good ( Gott , 1973 ) . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , some of the tension which existed between the police and black communities in the 1960s appears to have been relieved by an increase in the number of elected black politicians and their moderating influence on police policy : ‘ The growth of elected and appointed black people in the political system means that racialist and violent police behaviour comes to be more and more criticised and highlighted ’ ( Kilson , 1987:59 ) . |
| 22 | Arrow Air itself appears to have been involved in the Iran-Contra air supply operation . |
| 23 | The presence of members of Anna 's family in Gaul at the nunnery of Farmoûtier-en-Brie ( HE 111 , 8 ) emphasizes the continuing Frankish orientation of his kingdom and throughout his reign Anna appears to have been involved in opposition to the Mercians . |
| 24 | After a five-minute standing ovation , Rune , who appears to have been asleep throughout , raises a hand to still the multitude . |
| 25 | The count himself appears to have been anxious for an English husband for his daughter , and negotiations opened for her marriage to Edward III 's fourth son , Edmund Langley . |
| 26 | She had given him an ideal ; she had given him what appears to have been unfailing and uncritical support : he was never as an adult to be easy without one woman on whom he could totally rely . |
| 27 | When , late that night , they parted for the last time , Baldwin 's words were a little rehearsed , but there nonetheless appears to have been genuine emotion on both sides . |
| 28 | This interesting scheme has been described in detail by Challis and Davies ( 1987 ) and appears to have been successful on economic , social and psychological measures . |
| 29 | The operation appears to have been successful , and none of the vaccinated elephants has shown any symptoms of the disease . |
| 30 | Communication between Raistrick and Fleming appears to have been minimal . |