Example sentences of "[adj] it [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is important that it has a prayerful atmosphere and to achieve this it has to be clean and well kept . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Mrs Wallington , I ca n't tell you how amazing it feels to be here — in all this space-instead of shut up in Venice . ’ |
| 7 | When the expression of intimacy becomes impossible it has to be withdrawn . |
| 8 | In order to be authentic it has to be lived in the wider context of the real world in which religious women make their vows , informed both by the relationship they enjoy with the God who calls them and the real live people God gives them to love . |
| 9 | Mr Takeshita bulldozed this through parliament last December , and on April 1st it began to be applied to all goods and services . |
| 10 | 2.1 It has to be acknowledged that physical restraint implies the use of force , albeit in a non aggressive way . |
| 11 | The further east the northern Devon type was found , the larger it seemed to be . |
| 12 | The most notorious of these streets , Pimlico off Church Street , was a derelict slum within ten years of its building around 1820 , and by the 1870s it had to be demolished . |
| 13 | This is because the more massive the star is , the hotter it needs to be to balance its gravitational attraction . |
| 14 | His determination is underpinned by a belief that the problem , no matter how large it appears to be , can be overcome . |
| 15 | In 1984 it had to be amended further to follow the Euro-notion of ‘ equal pay for work of equal value ’ whereby the pay of women occupying jobs without immediate male comparison is set equal to men 's through the opinion of a judge rather than the operation of market forces . |
| 16 | The more schematic , abstract and inclusive a theory , the more comprehensively explanatory it appears to be . |
| 17 | Understandably , this has been a bone of contention with many of the staff of the polytechnics ever since , who maintain that for teaching at degree level to be lively and effective it needs to be supported within the institution by an active research programme . |
| 18 | With the age and general appearance of the driver and the obvious wealth behind the car itself Campion was sure it had to be either hard drugs or pornography , maybe a sweep operation somewhere and one of the fishes had struggled through the net . |
| 19 | All in all it promises to be an exciting enjoyable and hard working year for Save The Children and all its supporters . |
| 20 | I think I think first of all it has to be pointed out that what the Maastricht treaty , or I would p perhaps would n't always use the word Maastricht , but what the present policies are trying to achieve is not just erm if you like , some loss of sovereignty , but some gaining of sovereignty and in subsidiarity more power for the reason in fact . |
| 21 | As you can view , world peace is not all it promised to be , so if your planet ever has the choice of voting for world peace , do not follow the example of the planet Earth . |
| 22 | You say he can have it when Hoomey and all swim however many lengths in four minutes , whatever many it has to be . ’ |
| 23 | I let myself unwind at last — how good it feels to be back in the field , especially in this cinnamon-scented corner of the mortal sphere . |
| 24 | For used money to be viable it has to be seen to make new money . |
| 25 | It seemed to her that if love was to be great it had to be paid for with a terrible price . |
| 26 | If we fail to take this opportunity Mr Mayor , as I as I feel we are about to do I am a hundred percent convinced that in years to come people will look back at this year , or however long it happens to be and say they missed out on a golden opportunity to make social , to make more houses and to make social housing better in this city and across the country . |
| 27 | It provides also for management of resources outside the EEZs , both high-seas fish stocks and the resources of the sea bed ; the latter it declares to be ‘ the common heritage of mankind ’ and places it under the control of an International Sea-bed Authority . |
| 28 | Opera soon ceased to be a severely intellectual form of art and with the opening of the first public opera-house in Venice in 1637 it ceased to be an exclusively aristocratic one , though it seldom flourished without princely or aristocratic support . |
| 29 | To be safe it has to be rationed . |
| 30 | At first it seemed to be a motiveless crime , but then police found out about Michelle 's passionate affair with Alison 's husband . |