Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [vb base] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My houses have to be about the right thing , ’ he told Endill . |
| 2 | Are my shoulder blades not fully in contact with the ground because my shoulders tend to be rounded ? |
| 3 | So far , my plants seem to be loving it . |
| 4 | Also my plants seem to be disappearing in large chunks — am I underfeeding my fish ? |
| 5 | My favourites tend to be the beans that have a flavour of their own , especially flageolet beans which are a delicate green colour and have a subtle , fresh flavour ; they are , however , rather more expensive than any of the other varieties . |
| 6 | Not , I hope , that ny of my staff or students would batter any of my old ladies but my machines have to be very solid and reliable . |
| 7 | If my comments appear to be churlish , perhaps you would like to attend next year having won as many awards as you did and suffer the embarrassment of being approached by clients and peers to be asked sympathetically whether you had won anything . |
| 8 | it 'll be back again Mind you , I feel it I mean I know at the moment it 's it 's me I my elbows in the morning I ca n't hardly move them when I wake up in the morning because I get that far my arms have to be outside the bed and our bedroom 's that cold |
| 9 | ‘ My friends tend to be on the right hand side , as it were , but we shall be impartial . ’ |
| 10 | Might not St Paul or Thomas Aquinas raise an eyebrow at the idea that their views continue to be cited , given the knowledge which we now have about the origin of humankind or the biological relation of woman to man ? l6 |
| 11 | ‘ Fans are the livelihood of the game and their views need to be sought constantly . |
| 12 | Even to this day , many who have never been inside a church since their baptism expect to be buried in consecrated ground after some form of religious service . |
| 13 | Because grammatical elements typically need to have the capacity to combine normally with semantically very various roots , their meanings tend to be of a very general sort : the notion of past tense , for instance , can combine without anomaly with virtually any conceivable verbal notion . |
| 14 | Politicians , unlike actors and especially writers , know that their opinions have to be sold , that they must please . |
| 15 | Its meetings tend to be jolly occasions , though coloured by the perennial frustration of the children 's book world : why ca n't we all get together and promote children 's books generically ? |
| 16 | If everyone who is anyone does n't actually touch down on the planet fairly often , at least their activities come to be known through Uulaa 's favourite indoor sport ( after making money ) — trading information , along with rumour and scandal . |
| 17 | The hexachloroantimonate , , is easier to obtain — from , and sulphur — but its reactions tend to be slow due to its poor solubility in most solvents . |
| 18 | Their cars seem to be going the same way , with Daihatsu contriving to build a diesel engine of a mere 993cc for the little Charade four-seater hatchback . |
| 19 | From wherever the music and artists originate , their recordings have to be marketed , sold and promoted , and this applies to international superstars as well as emerging talent . |
| 20 | When they are patterned , their designs tend to be simple spots and dapples . |
| 21 | Yes , some of the departments , some department managers I think have more erm , their goals tend to be more short-term possibly than longer term . |
| 22 | But the real problem is that no matter how reactionary their articles seem to be the writers still tend to be enmeshed in the thought patterns of the Straightworld even when deriding it , which can only work like walking on a treadmill towards the new World . |
| 23 | The Fosse Way was presumably important in the town 's early development but its origins appear to be surprisingly complex . |
| 24 | ‘ No mother can watch her child continue to be in pain — his frail body is not going to stand up to 30 general anaesthetics . |
| 25 | The objects of their fantasy tend to be someone they are with at the time , often a work colleague . |
| 26 | Members of the cabinet are nominated by the president , but their appointments have to be confirmed by the Senate . |
| 27 | Called proligesterone , its side-effects appear to be much less damaging . |
| 28 | If Third World countries are to tighten their belts , then their governments have to be prepared for trouble , because starving people get desperate . |
| 29 | More systems of help advice and support for elderly victims and their carers need to be provided . |
| 30 | Once again this year their contributions deserve to be applauded . |