Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] to [be] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It is really the Plan Five and Plan Six that that tend to be the bulk of our business , which , as I say , gives up to a thousand pound parts and labour , which is obviously a lot better than two hundred pounds . |
2 | That wants to be a minus sign . |
3 | ‘ Part of the deal at Ibrox will be that Malta deliberately try to frustrate Scotland , but if McCoist and Eoin Jess are allowed the room to show off their club form , that has to be a comfort to us . ’ |
4 | Composite nine is about putting young people back to work and that has to be a priority in a year which has seen youth unemployment hit the one million mark . |
5 | I said , ‘ Hey , that has to be the title of a song . ’ ’ |
6 | ‘ That has to be the target now beginning at Southend on Saturday . |
7 | That has to be the reason . |
8 | I think that has to be the chain . |
9 | As the title implies it originally took place on Whit Monday , but when this ceased to be a Bank Holiday it moved to the new Bank Holiday . |
10 | This ceased to be the case as the middle-class , finding vaults overcrowded , erected miniature fortresses in the new necropolises and encased their dead in double , and even triple , coffins against the depredations of body-snatchers . |
11 | But as the world became increasingly interdependent this ceased to be the case and we became more concerned at our apparent weakness . |
12 | This has to be a mistake , he had thought , as they were directed ever closer to the front . |
13 | This has to be a tragedy for everyone involved . ) |
14 | The antidote to this has to be the counter-attack , as I 'm sure we 'll see from the French . |
15 | This has to be the solution I was looking for . |
16 | " No , my darling , this has to be the end for us . |
17 | The old detractors may remain unconvinced , but taking ‘ Outernational ’ on its own merits — and leaving the past where it 's best left — this has to be the culmination of what Mackenzie has been striving for through those half-pitched albums of the late '80s . |
18 | This has to be the accident black spot of the home and full of hazards . |
19 | Overall this looks to be a group with the physical and mental resources needed to play at the top level in New Zealand . |
20 | This promised to be the kind of job he most liked . |
21 | They may not , for instance , be prepared to risk having any kind of emotional engagement ( I recently worked with a group of headteachers for whom this seemed to be a problem ) ; or they may not trust each other or the teacher ; or the ‘ hidden curriculum , of the group 's own dynamics may cut across the drama 's requirements ( for instance if the strong natural leader within the group is not given her usual leadership function within the fiction ) ; or the group may concentrate too hard on preparing material for ‘ showing ’ so that they miss out almost entirely on ‘ playing the drama game ’ ; or they may dislike drama or really want to perform a play or are simply not in the mood to submit to the experience . |
22 | This seemed to be a place where , despite noises in the night and a few dangers like trees that grew inside you and made your throat choke , a person might feel sale for always . |
23 | This seemed to be a joke , as the old gentleman and all his young friends gave loud shouts of laughter . |
24 | Like his pleasure in reading dictionaries or solving crosswords , this seemed to be the kind of soothing conscious activity which allowed the unconscious faculties an easier passage forward . |
25 | This seemed to be the kind of light , bantering conversation that Rob invited . |
26 | They needed a boost because of the Cuban crisis and this seemed to be the opportunity , so they had little choice but to enter into the quicksand of the Vietnam War . |
27 | This seemed to be the case . |
28 | This seemed to be the case in all four countries in spite of their considerable cultural differences and distinctive marriage customs . |
29 | Overall this seemed to be the case with the financial imperative too . |
30 | Although this seemed to be the end of the Louth-Bardney line , it refused to die . |