Example sentences of "got to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've got to be honest , ’ he said . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I 've got to be honest , girl , I ai n't looking forward to it . ’ |
| 3 | Erm I have n't actually been listening to the programme I was asleep I 've got to be honest . |
| 4 | Well , I 've got to be honest , if you actually ask and negotiate with the company , it can offer reduced benefits and reduced premiums to the client 's circumstances , but it 's not generally advertised . |
| 5 | But I 've got to be honest with you you know . |
| 6 | Raising money for charity has got to be worthwhile . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't say owt to your Gran , Ruthie ; I 've got to be sure first . |
| 8 | ‘ This has got to be sure . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've got to be sure . ’ |
| 10 | He 's got to be correct , he 's got to do whatever was ‘ right ’ and ‘ nice ’ before either of us was born . |
| 11 | ‘ What have I got to be unhappy about ? ’ |
| 12 | You 've got to be polite . |
| 13 | which means that we 've got to be polite to people and so on . |
| 14 | He 's got to be polite . |
| 15 | Yeah , I , you may laugh but you see if you 're writing stories for a , for a young child then you 've got to be explicit , you 've got to be colourful and you 've got to talk in a basic language that that child will talk that like that at that age . |
| 16 | I can understand that obviously we 've got to be cautious about that sort of thing . |
| 17 | That 's right as far as the arm is concerned we 've got to be cautious , there . |
| 18 | I think I did , er , mm no I say you 've got to be choosy , certainly I 'll agree with that , anyway by the sound of it , like |
| 19 | This has got to be immoral if not illegal ! |
| 20 | It 's the silly new middle-aged people who 've got to be young who 've changed . |
| 21 | Right , well we 've only got erm not much more than ten minutes left erm , I 'm ri I 'm well we 've got to be we 've got to be early for lunch so you 'll need to go |
| 22 | People kept saying , ‘ Oh , well , the schools have got to justify everything they do to the public , they 've got to be accountable . ’ |
| 23 | and erm er i now er now I want to I do n't mind training again but it , it 's got to be vocational . |
| 24 | ‘ Just because you 're married does n't mean you 've got to be Siamese twins , ’ I said loftily . |
| 25 | Well you 've taken the colour out there obviously in photocopying it but you 've also got to be crafty and think of things like that as well . |
| 26 | ‘ But when you 're in big business like I am , you 've got to be hot stuff at arithmetic . |
| 27 | The fact is that any so called sport which involves the exhaustion , distress and eventual death of an animal has got to be obscene in the eyes of any human being . |
| 28 | It seems to me that parents carry these things on longer than the people involved — even Irene Markham seemed offhand with me , though God knows what she 's got to be huffy about . ’ |
| 29 | You 've got to be awake at a wake , if you 're to survive . |
| 30 | you 've got to be practical right |