Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | At times , the relationship between my penis and the rest of my body might appear to be a classic case of the tail wagging the dog . |
| 2 | My body will cease to be the temple of physical perfection that it currently is , my old aches and pains will return and my reliance on the ministrations of the NHS will increase . |
| 3 | Then Boy cut to a black and white film in which a good man comes back from the war in uniform and finds his wife hostessing a party in black satin with orchids , and he throws out her gin-drinking friends , and she says to them , laughing but then not laughing at all , my husband would like to be alone with me . |
| 4 | Various other questions concerning arrangements here in the house during my absence will need to be settled . |
| 5 | The drift of my rhetoric might seem to be taking me towards a traditional defence of literature , of the imagination , of creativity , of humane values in general . |
| 6 | ( An additional consideration is that alcohol is often rationed on safety grounds , which many skiers of my acquaintance would judge to be an unjustifiable infringement of their liberty . ) |
| 7 | Any matter that fell into the hole would be destroyed at the singularity , and only the gravitational effect of its mass would continue to be felt outside . |
| 8 | A widow would therefore be entitled to £5,165 ( the total of her personal allowance and widow 's bereavement allowance ) before her income would start to be assessed for tax . |
| 9 | All the details will be sorted out , and their action may continue to be an irritation until the car is repaired and the claim settled . |
| 10 | These new agencies will generally be within the civil service , and their star-f will continue to be civil servants . |
| 11 | Sue Stocker says she had no idea her husband would prove to be such a good performer in front of the camera … |
| 12 | The rabbi 's wife had insisted it was her role to attend to their epileptic daughter several times each night ; her husband must sleep to be strong for the community . |
| 13 | Oh , heavens , she panicked , and knew then that her impersonation would have to be good — Ven Gajdusek was nobody 's fool . |
| 14 | I suspect , however , that the need for a task force , its assignment , its composition , and its leadership will have to be decided on case by case . |
| 15 | The party with education at the top of its agenda will have to be more on its toes than that . |
| 16 | The call by Griffiths for ‘ clear agreements ’ is obviously justified , but their achievement may prove to be a bigger problem than either Griffiths or the government anticipate . |
| 17 | Money would have to be found to civilize the car or its use would have to be restrained . |
| 18 | If ; when your parents begin to draw a National Insurance retirement pension , they go on working , or their former employer is paying them a pension , their code will need to be changed so as to take into account the National Insurance pension . |
| 19 | I venture to add a few observations of my own only because I have to confess to having been a somewhat reluctant convert to the notion that the words which Parliament has chosen to use in a statute for the expression of its will may fall to be construed or modified by reference to what individual members of Parliament may have said in the course of debate or discussion preceding the passage of the Bill into law . |
| 20 | Although Bhutto stressed that Pakistan was not seeking military confrontation with India , she reiterated that her government would continue to be " steadfast " in its support for the right of self-determination by the people of Kashmir . |
| 21 | To make it boil without increasing its temperature , its pressure would have to be reduced from one atmosphere ( point C ) to point C " on the line . |
| 22 | This is represented by point D. To condense it without reducing its temperature , its pressure would have to be increased to point D " on the line . |
| 23 | There is of course no reason why individual lenders should not make insurance compulsory for their clients : its cost would have to be revealed to the customer , and it would have to be added into the calculated APR . |
| 24 | The region was overwhelmingly German in character , and in a sense its problem would have to be resolved before Franco-German relations could return to a more normal footing . |
| 25 | If a country is prone to high inflation then its currency will have to be devalued at regular intervals to maintain the price competitiveness of its exports . |
| 26 | If giving is specific , its spread will tend to be uneven . |
| 27 | So long as women are subordinate to men , their language will continue to be stereotyped as indicating natural subservience , unintelligence and immaturity . |
| 28 | All NATO members now broadly accept that the alliance will continue to be their main defence against a threat to Western Europe ; that its integrated military command will still control any military operations there ; and that its commander will continue to be an American . |
| 29 | For some , the schizoid position with its pain would have to be considered in order to rediscover how to feel . |
| 30 | It would be nice to think they had legends about them , and said that when a good frog died its soul would go to be big flowers in the sky … . |