Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He might be only pretending to be gaga , ’ said Pooley . |
| 2 | You see yo really you 'd need to be you 'd need to be only need to be paying back about four grand you see , though ? |
| 3 | If action were taken early before the restoration of the pavements outside the Cornmill Centre there would be less work to be done on the scheme . |
| 4 | In cases where the terms are likely to be subjected to such scrutiny , they must therefore be sufficiently balanced to be acceptable to the client 's trading partners . |
| 5 | In such a mood it is inevitable that the Government 's attempts to bring about change through legislation and increased prescription will be generally felt to be yet another attack on autonomy and yet another indication of a lack of trust in teachers ' judgement and their ability to do a good job . |
| 6 | As we have seen , linguistic variables may be markers of certain fine-grained social functions within the community , which can be broadly considered to be identity functions , and which may appear as age , sex or areal differences , for example . |
| 7 | The fact that the negative side receives very much more attention from him than the positive side , and that the attack is pressed home on only one of the two experiential explanations , has had the unfortunate result that Wittgenstein can be mistakenly thought to be giving the alternative experiential explanation , in terms of behaviour . |
| 8 | I was delighted to see that th on the if you are now considering buying extra funds to see an encouragement residential home places There is however an important issue where you get shall we say a quality development in a rural area , and I mean a quality development , which would be probably has to be above the rates quoted here where talk a discussion with the owners because they may not be available to local people and that does concern me a bit in rural areas . |
| 9 | I agree with the Lord of Aberdale that it is vital for the elected representatives on the police authority to be clearly seen to be in the driving seat of the committee . |
| 10 | The Newsons suggest these associations stand out to such an extent that they ‘ can be fairly assumed to be causative ’ . |
| 11 | Base rate can be often seen to be outside this guideline , due mainly to expectations in future movements in interest rates ( see later in chapter ) . |
| 12 | Smaller companies would be well advised to be more flexible if they want to attract pension-fund investment . |
| 13 | I would suggest that a more natural and more effective approach would be to reverse this traditional pedagogic dependency , begin with lexical items and show how they need to be grammatically modified to be communicatively effective . |
| 14 | For example , if aggressiveness can be undoubtedly shown to be an inherited trait rather than a learned response — as it is in those men with the extra male chromosome — we would be in a position to reject all conceptions which would produce an excessively aggressive individual . |
| 15 | There were no plans to take organs from primates but it was likely that certain species would be genetically engineered to be used specifically for human transplant . |
| 16 | The greater flexibility of the 60-second format has encouraged the trend , and the fact that the cinema audience is known to be there expecting to be entertained is a powerful incentive to provide what it wants . |
| 17 | Notice , however , that although we may have views on the social class distribution of [ ta ; ] deletion ( it can be readily observed to be less common in middle-class Belfast English ) , social class is at this stage an external category . |
| 18 | This does not mean , incidentally , that we have to accept that ( Ex ) Fx can be meaningfully claimed to be true irrespective of the possibility of knowledge . |
| 19 | This does n't mean that they could n't be completely redesigned to be even better . |
| 20 | The Proposal Form is the basis on which cover is provided and items of this nature must be specifically declared to be covered . |
| 21 | Such sums may , of course , be specifically agreed to be treated as additional capital contributions , though in practice that possibility is unlikely to have been discussed , and it would certainly be a rather haphazard method of raising finance . |
| 22 | Before any of them can be significantly claimed to be logical as well as grammatical subjects , and treated as denoting certain objects that exist in their own right rather than merely describing attributes of such objects , or representing something purely fictional , certain additional conditions must be fulfilled . |