Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is very often the intangible and indeterminate savings which provide to be of major significance . |
| 2 | Children will begin to see that the same amount of water will fill containers that appear to be of different capacity . |
| 3 | Such inferences appear to be of different kinds . |
| 4 | Specific causes such as tumours , drug toxicity , infection and trauma appear to be of lesser significance as causes of dementia . |
| 5 | But the main problems appear to be with residential home owners , who have threatened legal action over allegedly unfair contracts drawn by some SSDs . |
| 6 | As you appear to be without legal assistance the following instructions must be carried out forthwith : — |
| 7 | Even if appliances appear to be in good order , allow for the cost of immediate testing and servicing by the Gas Board , CORGI registered contractor or , in the case of oil , the oil company 's nominee , as soon as you move in . |
| 8 | The badges , now faded , appear to be from various air forces which fought during World War Two . |
| 9 | At the top , leaders Whitby expect to be at virtual full strength for their game at Tow Law , who will be without Darren Darwen and Tony Higgs . |
| 10 | Leaders Birkenhead St. Mary 's expect to be at full strength for their local derby at Bromborough Pool . |
| 11 | It is therefore a subject on which I expect to be in continuing dialogue . |
| 12 | The phrase conveys a sense of the desired relationship between elderly people and their relatives , especially their children : they want to be on good terms with them , and to have regular contact with them , but they do not want to rely on them too directly . |
| 13 | ‘ What ever you want to be in life , you want to be with Prudential , ’ goes the slogan from the country 's largest pensions and life assurance provider . |
| 14 | ‘ I want to be with other people , Dulé . |
| 15 | I want to be in perfect condition for the match against Norway and I think I will . |
| 16 | Wimpey physician , Doctor Phelan recommends a combination of the two if you want to be in tip-top condition . |
| 17 | The King 's own statements , however , show the extent to which his view of the Church was political : ‘ It is not the change of Church government which is chiefly aimed at ’ , he wrote in 1646 , ‘ ( though that were too much ) but it is by that pretext to take away the dependency of the Church from the Crown , which , let me tell you , I hold to be of equal consequence to that of the militia ; for people are governed by the pulpit more than the sword in the time of peace . |
| 18 | You look to be in high gig . ’ |
| 19 | The Glasgow club have now won only one of their last 13 league matches and look to be in free fall from the top flight unless they can break up this losing streak . |
| 20 | Together , these two chapters constitute an attempt to address the question I consider to be of overriding importance , which is not whether male/female differences exist ( they do ) , what they are or what causes them , but what they mean : what significant social uses are made of them , or more accurately of discourse about them . |
| 21 | ‘ If there 's a protected species of plant at the top of relatively new routes which happen to be of good quality , then we 've got a really complex problem to manage , ’ Bill Wright commented , ‘ but if it 's just cotton grass , then the damage done by agricultural pesticides is probably much greater . ’ |
| 22 | So too with the curves which happen to look right circular ; the centres of these arcs happen to be in obvious places . |
| 23 | The schools market is an area where booksellers and publishers increasingly seem to be on opposing teams , playing on that all too familiar unlevel playing field . |
| 24 | The tone of Tithonus ' words seem to be of great regret and self lamenting . |
| 25 | While the top three or four companies now seem to be in reasonable financial shape it is the medium-sized firms in the top thirty that are feeling the pressure . |
| 26 | You all seem to be in good spirits tonight . |
| 27 | You seem to be in excellent health . ’ |
| 28 | FMEs prepared to advise defence lawyers seem to be in growing demand , and that is borne out by the experience within our group , whose members go out of their way to stress that we work as independent consultants . |
| 29 | That spiritual dimension I believe to be of pivotal importance ; indeed I believe it to be the soul of the Green Movement today . |
| 30 | In this respect the sections purport to be of universal application . |