Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any event , Miss Kyte — at least Theda , for that I know to be her real name — is not to lose by this . |
| 2 | We had only brief glimpses of the parrot as it flew across gaps in the canopy , and with that I had to be content . |
| 3 | I can not possibly and conceivably , and no good other individual officer , actually handle all those and some them have to be delegated . |
| 4 | In the next letter he wrote me , dated 7 May , he announced that he was to have a holiday ; and this I knew to be much overdue . |
| 5 | At seven years old I determined to be a great footballer . |
| 6 | The Race Relations Act says that you can do this you can have courses especially for black or Asian people so as I said you have to be unemployed you have to be black or Asian and you have to live in either Radford Hyson Green St Annes Lenton or Snainton . |
| 7 | It is good practice and you will soon learn how careful you have to be not to scare them — and the bigger the chub are , the more careful you have to be . |
| 8 | It is good practice and you will soon learn how careful you have to be not to scare them — and the bigger the chub are , the more careful you have to be . |
| 9 | Oh , she knew what was going through his head all right , and how careful she had to be not to say or do anything he might misinterpret . |
| 10 | I 'm afraid you have to be like them cos , to survive |
| 11 | To do this we need to be alert to the processes going on within society and the economy , what range of alternatives is available , who can and should take part in the decision-making process , and what the effects of the various possible outcomes might be . |
| 12 | To feel this we need to be sure that other people are making similar sacrifices or , if they are not , that there are acceptable grounds for their not doing so . |
| 13 | ‘ This we consider to be a retrograde and unnecessary step , ’ particularly since these powers had only just been vested in the NRA under the Water Act , he said . |
| 14 | The reasons for this we consider to be legitimate business affairs . |
| 15 | Erm , that 's about the cheapest we seem to be able to get that one . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm afraid we have to be on our way , Colonel , ’ Bill Robins explained . |
| 17 | In order to do this they had to be something very unlikely to happen or they would not be regarded as a novus actus interveniens . |
| 18 | While doing this they appear to be lost in pleasure and increasingly unaware of the world around them . |
| 19 | Beyond this they need to be able to exploit the stock — the reference collection and other material in book and non-book formats . |
| 20 | To achieve this they need to be able first to specify the functions of individual components of the nervous system and related mechanisms in the body that have behavioural significance , such as the digestive system , and second to explain how these components , working together in an integrated system , give rise to human behaviour and human consciousness . |
| 21 | The end-product was interpreted and enforced by judges who were independent of both the legislature and the executive and whose jobs were guaranteed regardless of how inconvenient they proved to be . |
| 22 | This it has to be said , reflects a rather poor month last year but bearing in mind that the 1991 figures showed a 48 per cent rise in income , the current situation is viewed with satisfaction by all concerned . |
| 23 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 24 | It is important that it has a prayerful atmosphere and to achieve this it has to be clean and well kept . |
| 25 | To the size absolutely , to the size of the audience so if we say a one to one we 've got a certain level of conversational power if you say so with a group like this it has to be |
| 26 | In 1876 he decided to be an architect , the following year becoming articled to Basil Champneys [ q.v . ] . |
| 27 | Crown lending was never a major part of Aaron 's business , however , and after 1169 he ceased to be a primary Crown lender , concentrating instead on building up his own vast financial network of agents and clients from his Lincoln base . |
| 28 | Appointed in April 1720 he had to be threatened with dismissal by James Craggs [ q.v. ] , the secretary of state , before he would go . |
| 29 | The defensive aspects of the church of Luz are more interesting it has to be said , than the ecclesiastical , because inside the church is a disappointment , small and scrappy . |
| 30 | No matter how realistic and cautious I tried to be about changes at home , in my heart I only wanted reassurance that things would be as before . |