Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New Scientist , in an article by Stephen Salter , explained that simplicity was not synonymous with efficiency or even soundness and that failure of a project is often wrongly said to be because of its complexity . |
| 2 | I do n't know , it do n't seem to react to that , that 's a bit , mind you there again there 's only going to be that there is n't it ? |
| 3 | I I think the aspiration has obviously got to be that the E C can grow . |
| 4 | What is less agreed upon is whether the reward should be given for routine adequacy or for extra special effort . |
| 5 | Those rules are not immutable ; at each level , the rules can be bent and perhaps have to be if progress is to be made . |
| 6 | Er ploughmen and horsemen were the elite of farm workers and the sons would could only aspire to do what they did and And er eventually I suspect it got to be a little more organized and er they had these little games of of ploughing matches , maybe in a rudimentary farm to begin with , but it eventually came to be as we see it today , over a long period of time . |
| 7 | It is not intended to be and I am sorry if it appears so . |
| 8 | ‘ I happen to believe variety is the spice of life , it just happens to be that women end up victimising themselves a lot , or subjecting themselves to a lot of bullshit to get some sort of coverage . |
| 9 | Although she was not at ease herself and did not expect to be until she had told him all the painful things he would surely wish to know . |
| 10 | It certainly did not appear to be because they had any great fear of violence or mass escapes . |
| 11 | The hidden agenda could easily appear to be that " our drama is the least important thing in the school " . |
| 12 | There were many more such households in the 1991 Census than in previous years ; this is generally thought to be because many people evaded the enumerators lest they be made to pay the Community Charge . |
| 13 | At some point it might be that you have to accept that things are not going to be as you 'd hoped . |
| 14 | So , it 's , i it 's not going to be as I . |
| 15 | And other people other people think spelling should be changed but it 's not going to be and they 're still going to mark it one the exam if you do n't get it right . |
| 16 | It does not have to be that he has conceived what the French are calling the coup de force for Miss Jonathan . ’ |
| 17 | It does seem , though , that when the death of someone we love is sudden it does not have to be that the shock is greater than when we have been expecting it . |
| 18 | Things do not have to be as they are . |
| 19 | The future can not come into being until the past is dead . |
| 20 | The creditors ' committee does not come into being until the trustee has issued a certificate of its due constitution ( r 6.151 ) and his certificate must not be issued until he has received the written consent to act from three members of the committee ( r6.151(3A) ) . |
| 21 | This does not seem to be because the UK has more crime , or more serious crime , than comparable countries ; rather it is because more offenders are sent to custody , and for longer periods , in the UK than elsewhere . |
| 22 | The apparent excess of fathers monitored for radiation among children with leukaemia does not seem to be because the number of such fathers in the control group was unusually low by chance . |
| 23 | Feeling certain that her imagination was playing tricks on her , Fabia , who knew that Ven was still in Prague , saw that it just had to be that Lubor owned an exactly identical pair of shoes . |
| 24 | We just had to be or my centenary Open was going to be short-lived indeed ! |
| 25 | What he had not bargained for was that the ‘ fusion ’ cell would be deemed a radioactive hazard and so be prevented from getting the urgent clearance for transport across international borders . |
| 26 | Legitimacy … does not deal so much with whether activities of government are lawful as whether they accord with what are generally perceived to be or what have for long been held up to be , the fundamental principles of the constitution according to which government is or ought to be conducted . |
| 27 | between junctions did not suffer for be and any proposals that we agreed , you agreed to make fact the existing services . |
| 28 | Not because she purposely wants to be but because she just do n't think she 'd to done it , do you ? |
| 29 | Well I just feel no matter sentence he serves he 's always going to be that he 's left my daughter with a life sentence . |
| 30 | ‘ The central problem still seems to be that the UK is generally less adept than other developed economies at moving out of slow growth industries into faster growing ones , such as scientific instruments and electronics ’ ( Atkinson , 1983 ) . |