Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the menopause the vagina becomes drier and less elastic , so husbands may need to be a bit more gentle , especially at first , and a little more persevering . |
| 2 | There may need to be a large number of meetings and discussions between the consultant and the client even after the candidate is appointed to ensure that things are running smoothly . |
| 3 | there may need to be a separate contract dealing with specific services . |
| 4 | Training may need to be a continuous activity , with periodic updating sessions and refresher courses , especially if the firm is involved in new product development or if technology is changing rapidly . |
| 5 | I am sure my husband would not mind if your daughter came but it may need to be the ( comfortable ) sofa for a night ! |
| 6 | If the sale of Target will generate an allowable loss there may need to be an intra-group transfer of beneficial ownership of Target before the management buy-out , so that the loss can be utilised by a group company which will , in the same accounting period , realise gains from the the disposal of other assets . |
| 7 | The constitutional separation does not prevent some Members of Parliament echoing the condemnation of the tabloid press in intemperately criticizing individual judges for what they may consider to be an unduly lenient sentence . |
| 8 | Kid must want to be a Disney cartoon villainess when she grows up . |
| 9 | At the very least , Hong Kong must prepare to be a little more self-reliant for growth in the 1990s : public spending , particularly on infrastructural projects , is likely to assume a bigger and more virtuous role . |
| 10 | The essay should seek to be an objective discussion ; references to " I " do not lead to that impression . |
| 11 | Whether you be a district sales executive , a vice-president finance or an operations manager , you must strive to be the best in your chosen area . |
| 12 | Business environment : the environment in which the organisation operates will determine what it must do to be a success . |
| 13 | Writer and creator Kevin Fegan combines humour , razor-sharp observations and occasional flex of his poetic licence to shed a little light on what , to outsiders , must appear to be a very peculiar practice . |
| 14 | Witnesses and documents located there are required to be taken out of that country for production before the authorities of the United States or before persons acting with the backing of the courts of that country ; it must appear to be an attempt to give world-wide application to the procedural rules of the United States . |
| 15 | Putting one 's self in Stalin 's shoes , the present period of indecision must appear to be an opportune moment for him to step into the arena to suggest to Japan that she should make peace with the Kremlin and with Peking . |
| 16 | To non-riders dressage must appear to be the art of making the noble horse look like a wally with an even bigger wally on top in fancy dress . |
| 17 | How odd it must feel to be a stranger in an alien country , where even the faces on the stamps had no meaning . |
| 18 | I still wondered though , how it must feel to be a German . |
| 19 | No one had ever raised a hand to her in anger , and woe betide him if he should decide to be the first man to try . |
| 20 | But really you must try to be a little consistent . |
| 21 | IT SEEMS remarkable that Gershwin 's Porgy and Bess should have to be the object of rediscovery . |
| 22 | It appears reasonable to claim that a man without the capacity to put himself in another 's place could not understand a moral appeal ( even if he should happen to be a law-abiding man who accepts commands and prohibitions on external authority ) , just as someone incapable of shifting temporal viewpoints could not understand an appeal to his future interests . |
| 23 | Some of the equipment in here must have cost a small fortune — it would be dreadful , would n't it , if there should happen to be an accident ? ’ |
| 24 | An evening out of jobs between regions would be the first step in what , in the longer term , should aim to be an almost complete transfer of government jobs from areas of full employment into areas with the highest levels of unemployment . |
| 25 | It could be worse — you could live in the US where a would-be president must prove to be an Olympiad to make it to the White House . |
| 26 | You 'll need to know when snow should cease to be a problem and when it 's likely to reappear . |
| 27 | I think it is absolutely plain that there is no possibility , that any local authority wherever Paul were living would find it possible to that he should cease to be a statement in child , it is quite clear , I think , that he is bound to remain a child with a statement of special educational needs , in those circumstances any local authority would have the statutory duty to provide for his education , either at or somewhere else and in practice it seems to me there is no reasonable possibility of his being moved from after he has spent , will it be probably more than four years there perhaps five years there , that I think is not a possibility which has to be catered for . |
| 28 | To assert those alternatives and to insist upon them we mean that a designer should cease to be the industrial Eichmann of a large corporation . |
| 29 | Another issue is whether brother — sister incest should remain criminal where both parties are aged 18 or over : when sentencing , the courts treat this as a much less serious form of the offence than father — daughter incest , and a majority of the CLRC accepted that brother — sister incest should cease to be an offence when both parties are aged 21 or over . |
| 30 | Tony Dorigo must cease to be a non-playing member of the squad , Paul Gascoigne to be an unsolved riddle . |