Example sentences of "the [adv] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is unlikely ; indeed , the worst seems to be over . |
| 2 | Now that the worst seems to be over , the insurance companies have been recapitalising themselves . |
| 3 | Reports of sea serpents say they look like smooth snakes , but they are many times larger than the biggest snakes on earth : the longest seem to be about 200 metres . |
| 4 | The fossil record suggests that the largest members of a phyletic series usually had the most reason to be apprehensive of the future . |
| 5 | There was a tendency for the highly born to be preferred to the prince bishoprics of Germany ; and in the tenth and early eleventh centuries training to knightly pursuits had been almost a necessary qualification for a successful German bishop . |
| 6 | The long struggle of the provinces against the most powerful ruler in Europe has perhaps the best claim to be the first war of national liberation . |
| 7 | Work with oriented single crystals can give detailed information ; specialized texts ( see Ref. [ 7 ] , p. 63 ) should be consulted to enable the best use to be made of such experiments . |
| 8 | While supporting the general thrust of the strategy and its emphasis on the importance of transport to the regeneration of the regions , the CIT 's response also comments on the absence to date of an effective structure that could apply any available EC funding and carry a regional strategy forward , as well as on the need both for considerable investment in public transport and for the best use to be made of the existing transport infrastructure in serving proposed strategic development sites . |
| 9 | It is of a rock type not common to the immediate area , the nearest appears to be found at Cayton and Cornelian Bays , ten miles distant , and is believed to have been brought to Rudston for religious reasons , since it was there long before the church . |
| 10 | Indeed , the ability of workers to work ( labour-power ) itself is a marketable commodity , bought for the least cost to be used at will by the capitalist . |
| 11 | Recalling , no doubt , the sad disruptions of her own early life , she declared that ‘ our grand study has been to make him happy ’ , and added that under their Rousseau-inspired regime , in which Basil was taught nothing ‘ but what he learns from the evidence of his senses ’ , he had become ‘ certainly the most contented child I ever saw ; the least disposed to be fretful . ’ |