Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] to be [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What may appear to be one type of soil may have the attachment characteristics of a different layer of soil beneath it in which case the underlying soil dictates the chemical . |
| 2 | You know you might have a gene which says well you 'll grow to be six foot , but if you 're not fed properly |
| 3 | It 'll have to be one of the bedrooms , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 4 | Now we can distinguish what might seem to be two forms or , versions of conventionalism . |
| 5 | The disappointment for Newcastle , and for the North-East , is that what might prove to be one of the most crucial games in the club 's history has been decided not by skill , flair and courage — but by dubious refereeing decisions . |
| 6 | It was a bold experiment that is almost certain to be rewarded with full houses and , as the acoustics are to be softened , by tonight 's performance it might prove to be one of the better stagings . |
| 7 | She 's about seven years old , fully mature , and might live to be thirty or thirty-five . |
| 8 | 'Course , we might live to be ninety . |
| 9 | On its recovery from the Plague the city could claim to be one of the most progressive in Europe , with trade in leather and metal goods , knives and weapons , as well as silk . |
| 10 | I could choose not to do Alfie , but I would n't I 'd never refuse to do Alfie , I 'd like to be fifty years younger so I could play Alfie for another fifty years . |
| 11 | ‘ This could prove to be one of the key issues as Europe attempts to move into stages two and three of EMU ’ , he said . |
| 12 | In order to test these predictions we need to compare the size of the latent inhibition effect found after a long exposure — test interval ( which we may take to be 24 h or more ) with that found after a short interval ( when conditioning follows exposure immediately or after a few minutes ) . |
| 13 | Similarly , just as when expectations of inflation were zero actual inflation of 5 per cent might sufficiently fool workers to generate an unemployment rate of 3 per cent , now , if expectations of inflation are 5 per cent , actual inflation would need to be 10 per cent to fool them by the same amount as before and hence generate the same unemployment rate of 3 per cent . |
| 14 | To compare the costs over both postal rates , there would appear to be two possibilities : |
| 15 | The next possible commemorative year on which we might hang an Open Day and other celebrations would appear to be 1999 , marking 300 years since the Royal Charter was granted to James Sutherland ( 12 January , 1699 ) . |
| 16 | In relation to school boards , there would appear to be three sets of questions : |
| 17 | Technical experts will always disagree , erm there was a time when I too would claim to be one of them . |
| 18 | Farmers would have to be 100 per cent accurate in the identification system to avoid losing out on premium payments . |
| 19 | For the pulsar to move 18' from the apparent centre of the SNR in this time its proper motion would have to be 0.06 yr -1 . |
| 20 | It could , she supposed , be made suitable for a nanny , but the nursery would have to be one floor below in what was their present spare room with the extra bathroom . |
| 21 | Lastly lastly a longer question where the answer would have to be two and three sentences erm yes but do n't tell everybody . |
| 22 | Men who could use these things comfortably would have to be three metres tall , and when they came I really did n't want to be there . |
| 23 | To be regarded as equivalent to this , a pure discount bond ( making a lump sum payment at the end of year 2 with no year 1 payment ) would require a rate of return of 10.26 per cent ( the spot yield ) , i.e. for the same investment of 100 , the maturity value would have to be 121.57 ( i.e. 100 x ( 1.1026 ) 2 ) . |
| 24 | So , if your final approach altitude is 2,000 ft and your inbound time is 3 minutes , then your minimum descent rate would have to be 700 ft/min . |
| 25 | Even if that were scaled down to 35 TW , the world in 2030 would still require 1.6 times as much oil as in 1980 , 3.4 times as much natural gas and nearly 6 times as much coal , and nuclear capacity would have to be 30 times greater than in 1980 . |
| 26 | If they stay that way and if the default rate were to rise as high as 15% , the spread over Treasuries would have to be 15 percentage points to make junk break even . |
| 27 | There would seem to be four types of players contesting the board and two axes on which the game pivots : conservative — transformist ( a safer term than ‘ radical ’ ) , and centraliser — de-centraliser ( a safer term than ‘ liberal ’ ) . |
| 28 | This would seem to be one of the few events that had any lasting emotional effect on him . |
| 29 | There would seem to be two main differences . |
| 30 | For a study of lexical semantics , there would seem to be two principal sources of primary data ; needless to say , the native language-user is central to both of them . |