Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 58% of subjects believed that people with TB should be quarantined , and 63% perceived TB as a severe social stigma , endorsing the item ‘ if you have TB no-one wants to be around you , even people you thought were your friends ’ . |
| 2 | Well , yes , I know that , O.K. , I said , you 're their mother , and you decided against their father for reasons I take to be desolate , but would n't some Asian studies in St. James 's Square at the Institute of International Affairs be less perilous until they are both over , say , four ? |
| 3 | He said : ‘ One of the reasons I wanted to be here was to copperfasten , I hope , the central role that architecture in general , and especially the architecture of the last 300 years has in our cultural and heritage policy . |
| 4 | ‘ I feel fine and in any case I wanted to be here in person and not have to watch you on television . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , in case I seem to be just er avoiding the question , er I would have to say that this has been asked for before and we have resisted time and again , that 's the history of the matter , on the grounds that what these parents are really asking for is baptism and it 's our opportunity to er , to speak in these terms er and it 's a gold golden opportunity if they actually come to us . |
| 6 | For an instant I seemed to be staring into smoke . |
| 7 | I do n't want to be complacent but since March I seem to be winning . |
| 8 | I judge that in the time it takes the lift to creep the height of the building I have to be out the door and on my way . |
| 9 | OF COURSE someone had to be blamed for the Grand National that never was . |
| 10 | The thread I have chosen to follow is that of houses I consider to be perfect period pieces or exceptional architectural masterpieces , and hence they are not always conventionally representative of their particular period . |
| 11 | ‘ This is the kind of acting part I want to be offered in future . |
| 12 | The only times I do not want to be a writer are when I want to be a painter , and the only times I want to be a painter are when I am taken by the cast or mobility on a person 's face . |
| 13 | To weigh my principles against the risks I appear to be running . |
| 14 | It was long , slow , difficult work , and during the next months I learnt to be very clever with my tools . |
| 15 | A little late in the day as it happened , but they did and one of the things that helped was the fact that as an Irish citizen I had to be entered on the aliens ’ register by the local police and that required a passport photo . ’ |
| 16 | But it is so poorly executed , muddled in its narrative and just plain old-fashioned dull that the screening I went to was soon humming with critical snores . |
| 17 | Despite the fact that I feel strongly about this issue , I remain open-minded and by seeing as much as is attainable my ideas will develop and so determine the kind of practitioner I hope to be . |
| 18 | The mistake is often made of leaving too much to the insurance broker — not giving him sufficiently clear instructions and then , most importantly , not checking with him that the policy taken out does cover the risks which need to be insured against . |
| 19 | This means that any of those experiments in plant association which prove to be unsuccessful can be scrapped without too many regrets . |
| 20 | Shooting is sporting too : grouse , partridge , pheasant , tiger or anything else , except foxes which have to be left for hunting men . |
| 21 | Each annual cycle entailed the repetition of well-tried methods which had to be taken in common . |
| 22 | This rather crude form of collegial evaluation tends to induce a certain kind of conservatism in teachers , an attachment to existing classroom methods which appear to be reasonably successful in keeping results high and noise levels low . |
| 23 | But even when the information is thought to be reasonably complete and reliable , there are a number of considerations which have to be taken into account in the interpretation of the coins from any site . |
| 24 | What people think of the media in general and each medium in particular and the role or roles they perceive them to play in their lives and in society are important preliminary considerations which have to be studied . |
| 25 | A further problem can be the microphone performance — different microphones can produce different acoustic signals which need to be standardised . |
| 26 | The family goes foraging as a group within a large home range and establishes a variety of bases for refuges which seem to be used at different times of the year . |
| 27 | This is often referred to as prudential regulation and it consists of setting down standards in respect of such matters as the capital reserves which have to be maintained by banks . |
| 28 | In order to understand how this conflation has arisen it is instructive to trace through the steps which need to be taken to derive the Lucas supply function from the accelerationist hypothesis , the basic element of which is equation ( 7.1 ) above . |
| 29 | In this chapter the steps which need to be taken to ensure that the continuing partners are able to carry on the practice , beyond the basic declaration of intent ( Clause 4.02 ) , are considered in some detail . |
| 30 | To pacify the law and order lobby , a distinct difference was recognised , between property offences ( 95 per cent of all crime ) , viewed as amenable to punishment in the community , and crimes of violence which need to be punished more severely in order to protect the public . |