Example sentences of "[coord] [det] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staleness can set in , so that one partner or both cease to be inventive , settle for the familiar and thus fail to move the partnership along . |
| 2 | If you produce a lovely little item which fits perfectly on a particular radio programme , or newspaper , and that happens to be the week that it 's the county show , or an earthquake , or something like that , there 's no way you 're going to get it in , because there 's too much competition , and the next week it 's dead . |
| 3 | Erm and , and that wants to be part of that exercise , really , of , of looking at the reasons a a and telling us whether we need to take any action . |
| 4 | Say that we want it set up in here with a photograph and that wants to be on the thing outsi |
| 5 | Now look here , you trembling ridiculous creature , listen to me , nothing may happen and that has to be OK too . |
| 6 | It imposes on us the belief that it is wrong to steal or to commit murder — and that has to be a good thing . |
| 7 | The long history of the game maya suggest that better players should use stiffer clubs and that has to be taken seriously . |
| 8 | The intonation on your guitar has got to be perfect , because you 're fretting strings behind the glass and that has to be just right . |
| 9 | What 's good about the debating is that people are talking about the rights and wrongs of bolting as a practice — and that has to be welcomed . |
| 10 | And that has to be good news for backpackers keen to shave pounds off the weight in their rucksacks . |
| 11 | Most of those who have studied the twentieth-century constitution have ceased to see it as a living , moving thing that has to be studied historically , that has to be studied in relation to interests and political forces , and that has to be understood within the context of larger developments within society and economy . |
| 12 | ‘ The car is going to have to be completely re-built afterwards and that has to be taken into account in the total cost , ’ he says . |
| 13 | Selecting what to look for is very important , and that has to be decided in advance . |
| 14 | Composite nine is about putting young people back to work and that has to be a priority in a year which has seen youth unemployment hit the one million mark . |
| 15 | And that has to be maintained in the future . |
| 16 | No we do n't , erm we in principle obviously we are in favour of er there being some form of compensation scheme and that has to be regarded as erm a step forward , er it would be better if er whatever compensation scheme is gon na be introduced was introduced now and the committee recommended and not in nineteen ninety-six or whenever it may be that the legislation is enacted . |
| 17 | Yeah it 's about time it were shaken up now that Labour Party er this government er , erm they 're agreeing to this , this has to be done and that has to be done you put notices up on buses all over Britain no smoking in the buses , now in the big restaurants they 're going to have to between now and July put notices up , no smoking in restaurants |
| 18 | And branch spokesman Ron Lawton said yesterday : ‘ Some of the most dangerous people in the country are held in these special hospitals and that seems to be pushed into the background . |
| 19 | Erm there 's also a very strange statement in paragraph which says that the nineteen sixty eight act is intended to provide a network of sites to enable gypsies to move around or settle , but in practice many gypsies are settled on permanent sites and it seems to me that that is the logical result of having insufficient pitches in that if th you know there are n't enough pitches for you , you are not going to get up and go from a permanent that you 've been living on and move off in case you ca n't one somewhere else and that seems to be the inevitable logic of the government 's own failure to make sure that there is adequate provisions in local sites . |
| 20 | Er if my choice , I 'd like to be in the docks , but things can not ha happen that way , we 've got a lot o , a lot of the yuppies moving in that area , and that seems to be taking over that area so no chance of a football stadium there . |
| 21 | And that seems to be too large an assumption . |
| 22 | However , there is no intention to include turkeys in the EC 's zoonoses proposals and that seems to be very sensible . |
| 23 | And that seems to be more along the lines of a view er |
| 24 | The central charges as items is that it refers to the charges from my own department , legal department , all the other central departments and an input to er the Strategic Planning Committee operating , but it 's not items that the Strategic Planning Committee has a control over , so there 's a change , an estimated change of cost and sometimes that reflects the changes in methodology of agricultural cost and that seems to be happening at the moment . |
| 25 | And that seems to be to demonstrate difference between what is happening whether we like it or not at central government level and input of somebody who is perpetual of opposing propositions and that is the to two particular items within this alternative budget . |
| 26 | ‘ Records will show very shortly that we have not had a typical winter for this part of the country and that seems to be the main reason , ’ he told the environmental health committee yesterday . |
| 27 | ‘ He had been nursed superbly and that needs to be said because the nurses have gone through a difficult time for obvious reasons and I would like to assure them , in public , that what they have done was quite superlative . ’ |
| 28 | This is an announcement that accompanies a call to participate , and that needs to be put into action . |
| 29 | This will require some widening of their studies , and that needs to be handled with care in ways connecting with their interests . |
| 30 | Proper audit er is the effective way er to detect fraud and that needs to be at the at the er the re requirement er er that we impose er on and I , as I pointed out er at the moment the auditors themselves are not being effectively er regulated . |