Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What she appears to be asserting is that this person is coming home from Canada . |
| 2 | All that remains to be said is Happy Christmas and good wishes for a New Knitting Year ! |
| 3 | The first thing to be said is that the ‘ circumstantial variables ’ of a president 's incumbency may give him important advantages . |
| 4 | And the first thing to be said is that , on their own , beliefs do n't cause actions . |
| 5 | All that remains to be said is incised on stone , and the living go around silently with long faces and glances that mean ‘ I ca n't tell you how sorry I am , but I do know how you feel . ’ |
| 6 | I mean , I think one , the first thing to be said is that one can assure members covering all the other C A B's was that they actually got their bids in full . |
| 7 | Before the Second World War it was still decreed by the Women 's Cricket Association that women cricketers should wear white stockings — a rule which it has to be said was not always adhered to by the players . |
| 8 | But the next thing to be said was ‘ Thank you very much ’ in German , as quickly as possible . |
| 9 | However , this is not done where Ord 17 r 11 ( automatic directions ) applies , unless the case had been set down for hearing in the High Court before transfer or a request for a day for hearing to be fixed is made under Ord 17 , r 11(3) ( d ) . |
| 10 | THE Midland Bank , like the girl in the story , agreed the principle and all that remained to be fixed were the terms . |
| 11 | The only subjects which appeared to be taught were massage , biology ( sex talks ) and chemistry — a lesson in which the teacher appeared to be teaching the children how to manufacture high explosives . |
| 12 | What is much less likely to be recognized is the importance of considering the interrelationship between these various initiatives , and certainly there is no sign as yet that such an evaluation is to take place . |
| 13 | A one-inch ( 2.5cm ) square of sandpaper ( rough side out ) or of flannel glued to the corners of the picture or of the cutouts to be displayed is sufficient to keep the picture on the board . |
| 14 | Once LIFESPAN PMR has started up successfully , the first page to be displayed is the LIFESPAN PMR Log On Page , shown in Figure 3.1 . |
| 15 | Once LIFESPAN has been accessed , the first LIFESPAN page to be displayed is the LIFESPAN Log On Page , shown in figure 3.1 . |
| 16 | The problem to be faced is that of limiting the choice of the contents of even a partial set , in some non-arbitrary way . |
| 17 | One problem not having to be faced is opposition from local residents . |
| 18 | The first decision to be faced is whether the institution needs to be able to make its own recordings . |
| 19 | For speech recognition the principal operational difficulty to be faced is the interference to the acoustic signal from background noise . |
| 20 | I mean the question that has to be faced is that when you talk about cutting the costs in local government you also have to talk about the services which councils deliver , and you ca n't get something for nothing . |
| 21 | The two pieces of knitting to be joined are replaced on the needles . |
| 22 | The two pieces to be joined are replaced on the needles with the right sides of the fabric together . |
| 23 | With the refractor , the light from the object to be observed is collected by an object-glass ; the light is brought to focus , and the image is then enlarged by a second lens termed the eyepiece . |
| 24 | ( Note how one of these is identical to the first Tristan chord ( Example 102 ) , with the addition of the bass D. ) One peculiarity to be observed is the leap B-G from one substitution note to another in the melody . |
| 25 | ‘ Anything that needed to be countersigned was done by her . ’ |
| 26 | What also needs to be emphasized is that civil servants are also heavily involved in making policy . |
| 27 | The record only reached number twenty-five but the audience about to be touched was obviously going to be huge . |
| 28 | Insufficient because it does not provide what law has to offer , which is first , an authoritative means of deciding what the rules to be applied are : second , an impartial method of applying those rules to particular circumstances , and third , a way of marking that the rules and resultant decisions are binding or non-optional on the parties . |
| 29 | though the contract is not in itself unlawful , the purpose for which it is made or for which the subject matter is to be applied is unlawful or the intended method of performance is unlawful ; or |
| 30 | provision for both block and individual exemptions from the prohibition , following the example of Article 85(3) ; the test to be applied is that of technical or economic improvement ; a general public-interest criterion is specifically excluded , despite being asked for by , among others , the professions which are to be included in the scope of the legislation , unlike the existing Restrictive Trades Practices Act 1976 ; |