Example sentences of "[vb -s] to [be] [adj] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The physiotherapist has to be encouraging at all times , but this stops short of praising the patient when he has not achieved a required movement . |
| 2 | However , the specialist team is distinguished by a particular approach , featuring high throughput of cases , and it has to be uncertain at this stage whether this is a consequence of its specialism or of an underlying distinction in the conception of social work that it may represent — what we have called a ‘ deep ’ structure . |
| 3 | Anyway Ronny scored a couple of goals in this match and was given 6 out of 6 point in Dagbladet and 9 out of 10 in VG so his form has to be excellent at the moment — i guess he will impress Ardiles and/or Wilko . |
| 4 | It is explained by the combination of the first two conditions , and since it is a performative purporting to affect the rights or duties of another , it has to be public at least in intention . |
| 5 | BGS has to be ready at all times to supply the wants of the market for geoscience and to be aware of potential sources of income , marketing efforts , public relations and promotional activities will be focused more on the commercial sector . |
| 6 | Nowadays a chief executive has to have a strong understanding of finance , he needs to be good at public relations , he must understand technology , he must be able to cope with labour problems and he must ( as always ) be a good selector of people . |
| 7 | Are you , the haulier , agreeing , for example , to supply a particular vehicle for haulage or to supply any lorry which happens to be available at the time the contract needs to be undertaken ? |
| 8 | The mother who ‘ ca n't be so cruel ’ as to wake her sleeping baby if he happens to be asleep at the appointed feeding-time , fails to realize that a few such wakings would be all she would have to resort to … |
| 9 | However , as it tends to be dry at the ends , we trimmed off an inch and tamed the frizz with heated rollers . |
| 10 | The danger for almost all golfers is that the right side tends to be dominant at the start of the downswing . |
| 11 | Mr. Gow : To ask the right Hon. Member for Selby , as representing the Church Commissioners , when he next intends to be present at a meeting of the General Synod of the Church of England . |
| 12 | The rule in Rylands v. Fletcher thus ceases to be available at the very moment when the plaintiff needs it . |
| 13 | So as one goes down the stratigraphical column , if one leaves behind the spectacles of the specialist and looks about one with the wondering eyes of a child , one never ceases to be amazed at the diversity and yet the uniformity of it all . |
| 14 | As the activation mechanism by CRP-cAMP appears to be different at the lac P1 and gal P1 promoters , we have decided to test the binding of the reconstituted polymerases to lac and gal up promoter variants in the presence and in the absence of the CRP-cAMP complex . |
| 15 | Something which seems to be soluble at some stage and the water gets hot and it 's not soluble , so we 're looking for things here that are not not soluble . |
| 16 | The only thing he seems to be good at is denigrating Labour , the party that brought him political prominence . |
| 17 | It has been suspected of variability , but at present , at least , the magnitude seems to be steady at 3.1 . |
| 18 | It pays to be cautious at first and increase the groundbait amount if things go well . |
| 19 | Not only do we need a strategic deterrent , but there is a strong argument that a sub-strategic deterrent continues to be relevant at a time when there is a real risk of several new nations appearing which have some form of nuclear capability and when we risk the proliferation of not merely equipment but perhaps technology from some of the scientific bases in the former Soviet Union . |
| 20 | AI continues to be concerned at the long-term detention in Hong Kong of thousands of Vietnamese asylum-seekers . |
| 21 | Far from being dogmatic , our objective is to achieve the best possible delivery of health care through a health service that continues to be free at the point of delivery to patients . |
| 22 | Like her earlier Stand We At Last , which told the story of over a century of Western feminism , Daddy 's Girls shows Zoë Fairbairns to be adept at recreating detail and charting the changes in character 's lives as years pass . |
| 23 | For me it begins to be noticeable at the railway station where I get off the train each evening , and becomes gradually stronger , like a magnetic field , as I walk up the hill . |
| 24 | The summer 's sprawl begins to be oppressive at this stage in the year and trigger fingers are itching to snip back overgrown mallows , clear out the mildewing foliage of golden rod and reduce the overpowering bulk of bullyboy ground cover . |
| 25 | It 's only after that that once again she begins to be worried at possible consequences ‘ What if God hath seen and death ensue , then I shall be no more and Adam wedded to another Eve ’ and therefore , of course , ‘ Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe ’ . |