Example sentences of "to be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have no transmitter on the loose ferret so the only possible means of location has to be via that Norfolk long-spade — used as a listening device . |
| 2 | ‘ Are n't Time Lords supposed to be above that sort of language ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ After all , cricket is meant to be above all that — playing sport should be fun and it certainly is n't when you are confined to your hotel all the time . ’ |
| 4 | Notice that each successive peak and trough is likely to be above all preceding ones because of underlying growth in the economy 's productive capacity . |
| 5 | Within this trickle of a song , Morrissey defends his much maligned plagiarism with a comical air of one who considers himself , quite rightly , to be above such charges . |
| 6 | Oh , for that uncomfortable bed on his yacht that he now resolved to be aboard this very evening , before any such vote could be called . |
| 7 | The responsibility for drawing the first furrow on a narrow stetch was one the head horseman could not afford to delegate , unless it was to a man equally skilled as himself ; for a stetch that did not come out , at every point , exactly to the inch would render ineffective the use of implements that had been designed specially for it ; again , a botched stetch was visible to all — to the casual passer-by and to the practised eye of his neighbour ; and the ‘ loss of face ’ a head horseman suffered through allowing the standard of his own work to be below that of the next farm 's was enough to make him ensure that every field was laid out and ploughed with as much care as patience and long-practised skill made possible . |
| 8 | She heard the amazement , as if what she 'd suggested had to be beyond all rational consideration ; certainly not anything that had ever merited any thought on his part . |
| 9 | While you have too much of a good thing , there never seem to be to many cables on a warm sweater but to prevent them becoming overwhelming , they are sometimes improved by crossing each strip over alternatively . |
| 10 | They have to be to each other what Minny and I are . |
| 11 | We dedicate this cross to be to all a symbol of his suffering and his victory . |
| 12 | The graduate in English was to be to some extent a scholar , in so far as he or she had a sense of the past and the capacity to understand literature in its historical contexts , particularly linguistic ; beyond that , what was looked for was wide reading , an appreciation of masterpieces , and a capacity to write well , attend to evidence , and disentangle sense from nonsense in argument . |
| 13 | Emerson revealed that both those who continued working and those who retired ‘ appeared to be to some extent affected by rather garbled information concerning retirement impact ’ ( Emerson 1959 ) . |
| 14 | First , the authority of the lecturer in the teaching relationship has to be to some degree granted by the student . |
| 15 | Secondly , an exemption clause may be partially effective if it is shown to be to some extent reasonable . |
| 16 | In fact the main lessons of these attempts seems to be to those outside Spiralynx — that organising from the outside is impossible . |
| 17 | He set the village up as a separate body even then under a charitable trust , which it continues to be to this day . |
| 18 | ‘ You 've had a bad start , and you 're not going to be over this illness in a couple of days , but I 'm sure you can beat it . |
| 19 | He wanted to be through this valley . |
| 20 | I prefer not to be under any obligation to you . ’ |
| 21 | He did n't look to be under any pressure at all . |
| 22 | ‘ … into the last furlong , and the Guppy looks beaten , Breakdancer takes up the running with Prince Charming on the stand side — it looks to be between these two — but now Shine On 's absolutely flying on the outside , a terrific challenge , the three locked together , Breakdancer and Shine On stride for stride , at the line it 's very close but I think it 's shine On who gets it on the nod . |
| 23 | The divide in English studies seems to be between those who want to bring the rift out into the open , and those who prefer to pretend that it does n't exist . |
| 24 | In the context of a dispute over the future of pits and communities , the main difference is thus likely to be between those areas with good prospects ( because of high productivity capabilities and substantial quantities of accessible , easily-worked coal ) and those with much less secure futures . |
| 25 | And in a way I 'm quite glad to be outside that circuit because my existence as a an artist is in many ways more real than to be cosseted by Arts Council money . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | Of course , SERPS rights had to be forfeited , but for younger people these were calculated to be worth much less than the personal pension could offer . |
| 28 | Estimates vary widely but by 1995 many industry analysts expect HDTV hardware and programming to be worth many billions of pounds . |
| 29 | A year of unhealthy life is considered to be worth less than 1 : the value is lower if the quality of life of the unhealthy person is worse . |
| 30 | It 's not even going to be worth half of that , or a third of that let's say . |