Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | To weigh my principles against the risks I appear to be running . |
| 6 | It was long , slow , difficult work , and during the next months I learnt to be very clever with my tools . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Shooting is sporting too : grouse , partridge , pheasant , tiger or anything else , except foxes which have to be left for hunting men . |
| 9 | Each annual cycle entailed the repetition of well-tried methods which had to be taken in common . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A further problem can be the microphone performance — different microphones can produce different acoustic signals which need to be standardised . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | These grass-roots organizations which began to be formed immediately after February represent , in their view , the aspiration of the Russian proletariat to take command of the productive process . |
| 19 | The courts may also have been influenced by the rising premiums which had to be paid by anyone involved in the construction of buildings . |
| 20 | For more normal requirements , and where a greater spread of illumination and better photographic quality is called for , it becomes necessary to use bigger lighting units which have to be supported on tripod stands . |
| 21 | This compares with the analysis done by the business units which tends to be more detailed , operational and more concerned with the competitor 's performance in individual markets . |
| 22 | Eighth , do n't expect to get any sort of sensible answers from a company who sells computers which happen to be capable of being used for desktop publishing . |
| 23 | So please will you consider for three months out of our funds which has to be the to pay her that amount of money or else we can not cope . |
| 24 | Perhaps more revealing is the evidence on sources and distribution of research funds which proved to be highly related . |
| 25 | Alexander had certainly done one thing for the Jews which proved to be irreversible . |
| 26 | Situations occur where trade union negotiators set targets for achievement of these goals which appear to be at odds with the targets set by management for the organisation ( and its employees ) . |
| 27 | There are nevertheless many images which seem to be spontaneous Minoan creations — strange and haunting images like the one on a sealstone depicting a daemon carrying two animal carcases on a pole . |
| 28 | These boundaries are also obtained from reference space excursions and can thus cause uncertainty in the spatial relationships which need to be checked at a lower local level . |
| 29 | Delivering a brief lecture on self-control , Leonora began frying bacon , cutting hunks of crusty bread , grating cheese , determined to keep so occupied that there was no attention to spare for the worries which seemed to be multiplying by the minute . |
| 30 | There are three aspects which have to be considered in all dance interpretations of music . |