Example sentences of "to [be] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the advances in information technology , answers to many questions could be delivered in minutes , not just on industrial issues , like how cold does it have to be before we stop work , or how heavy a load should I lift , but other questions not related to work that we have not always answered in the past . |
| 2 | There are formal procedures for deciding how large a difference in the ds needs to be before we decide to take the interaction seriously , but these are beyond the scope of this book . |
| 3 | Alright , th the saying in the paper , they 're talking about stopping these big companies , keeping these little companies waiting there could be something they can do about that , but how long is it going to be before they do something ? |
| 4 | And how ill did you have to be before you died ? |
| 5 | If you were going to live your life again , how old would you think you 'd have to be before you felt mature enough to make the decision to get married ? |
| 6 | ‘ And it would have to be before you require our services . |
| 7 | they say to me , how many of them do there have to be before you think you 've got enough on your list . |
| 8 | I think th the difficulty with that kind of day is that unless you 've decided what the outcome 's going to be before you start , you 're not actually going together are you ? |
| 9 | How safe does a drug have to be before it receives a certificate ? |
| 10 | The question then arises as to how specific the Community legislation has to be before it precludes national legislation . |
| 11 | How long 's our Mum going to be before she comes in ? |
| 12 | Is he arguing — as he seemed to be before he lurched off into the quotation — that no examination result should be made available to Scottish parents ? |
| 13 | As Carmel finished the 3s , she came to me and whispered : ‘ I think I can see what the 5s are going to be before I do it ’ , and she explained her prediction . |
| 14 | The Marxist ethical imperative seems to be that whatever advances the cause of the proletariat or the advent of communism is ‘ ideologically correct ’ . |
| 15 | The true position seems to be that something done or promised before the promise sued on is not by itself treated as a sufficient reason for the enforcement of the promise . ’ |
| 16 | You know it seemed to be that we had a working rule that had functioned reasonably well over the years and all of a sudden he was tearing up various paragraphs that did n't suit him , and altering bits you know and changing them round just to suit the company , and all to our disadvantage . |
| 17 | I doubt very much whether we 'll have a score on that because it tends to be that we do n't find out what happens in Italy until er the following morning . |
| 18 | The solution to ‘ He was not really afraid of any landlady ’ might appear to be that we have here a masked first-person avowal , and that it is simply an indication of Dostoevsky 's boldness that it should be surrounded by authorial statements which are firmly outside and ( so to say ) on top of Raskolnikov in the classical omniscient third-person mode : for example , information about his poverty , irritable frame of mind , withdrawal from society , his ‘ not naturally timorous and abject ’ disposition . |
| 19 | The hypothesis appears to be that we have inherited from our animal ancestors the habit of discrimination , but have added an additional criterion , namely the conscious calculation of relatedness , to the criteria of propinquity , and perhaps physical and biochemical similarity , used by animals . |
| 20 | And I wonder if it seems to be that they prefer you come out of the upper drawer than come up with your brilliant A levels or whatever . |
| 21 | Their crime seemed to be that they had sung the song ‘ Hernando 's Hideaway ’ too loudly . |
| 22 | Assuming that all the materials you have are equally suitable for your students , the main distinguishing feature of the video materials is likely to be that they provide the most realistic examples of the language in use . |
| 23 | Taking into account the fact that they made fewer comments about individual types of credit than men , women 's comments were more likely to be that they did not know how a type of credit worked than men 's ; and less likely to say that it was easy to understand and use . |
| 24 | Instead , the main ingredient of success appears to be that they have consistently geared themselves to the needs of international trade . |
| 25 | The main criterion for an engine , says Mr Nearn , has to be that it fits the car . |
| 26 | So powerful did the Association feel itself to be that it declined to amalgamate into a nationally representative Shipping Federation which came into being in September 1890 , though it allowed its individual members to join if they wished and developed a working arrangement with it.Indeed the separatism of the Mersey shipowners lasted until 1967 when they eventually merged into a British Shipping Federation , though not under the title " Employers ' Labour Association " . |
| 27 | The only possible explanation of this radiation , which corresponds to a temperature of about 3K ( 3 C° above the absolute zero of cold ) , seemed to be that it represented the residual energy left over from the Big Bang . |
| 28 | It 's any ancient domestic breed , one of many in eastern Asia , and it main attributes seem to be that it does n't eat much , it grows up quickly , and it 's almost pure lard . |
| 29 | Another effect of the phrase would seem to be that it enables the person uttering the remarks or engaging in the behaviour to assert that he was unaware of the presence of his audience , which duplicates the requirements of intention now built into the section . |
| 30 | The answer seems to be that it depends on their immediate environment , how they are socialized , their level of education or ‘ culture ’ . |