Example sentences of "[vb -s] to be that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final verdict has to be that the underlying intelligence of the man , for all his shrewdness , combativity and skill in a car , was insufficient to match an ambition that was almost forced upon him by his milieu , by his family and by his status as a Brazilian national hero . |
| 2 | What it amounts to is that the weak choice is just as valid as the hard choice provided the tracks are examined on their merits , not in terms of weakness or laziness . |
| 3 | The important difference between habituation and conditioning when it comes to context specificity appears to be that the latter involves the recall of associative information whereas habituation requires no more than the recognition of the stimulus as being familiar . |
| 4 | In late twentieth century Moscow , the danger appears to be that the collective record of the Russian and other Soviet peoples may simply ebb away electron by electron ( Moiseenko 1993 ) . |
| 5 | The only truism appears to be that the smaller the town the greater the extent of the exchange . |
| 6 | The end result of interaction appears to be that the longer one survives after myocardial infarct the closer one 's life expectancy comes to match the normal population . |
| 7 | In a comprehensive survey , Moore and Newman ( 1985 ) note that the consensus appears to be that the free rider effect of RTW laws is negligible in terms of the impact on unionization . |
| 8 | The principle seems to be that the closer the potential person approaches its realisation and the fewer the remaining hurdles to surmount , the more attributes of the actual person seem proper to it . |
| 9 | The message seems to be that the best diet is one where as many different foods as possible are included and where meals are planned to include : |
| 10 | Moore 's view seems to be that the only non-fallacious cases are those where we are given merely some obvious synonym for the most basic sense of ‘ good ’ , like ‘ intrinsically valuable ’ . |
| 11 | The general opinion seems to be that the only really dangerous thing that happens during the filming of London 's Burning is Murphy driving a fire engine . |
| 12 | The most likely outcome seems to be that the black hole will just disappear , at least from our region of the universe , taking with it the astronaut and any singularity there might be inside it , if indeed there is one . |
| 13 | The position now seems to be that the two offences have the same legal definition , and that the prosecution should prefer the charge of manslaughter when the case is a bad one which might merit a sentence in excess of the five-year maximum for causing death by reckless driving . |
| 14 | The reasoning behind this proposal seems to be that the two parties are adult , and any exploitation deriving from the family tie seems no more likely than in other adult relationships . |
| 15 | A difference between McGregor and Tuckman seems to be that the former sees some groups as fixed in their poor behaviour , whereas the latter implies that groups tend to move out of the ineffective stages into more effective behaviour . |
| 16 | The Indian tigers ' problem seems to be that the Chinese have killed all theirs . |
| 17 | Although for a majority of employees a protected rights contract is usually likely to offer a higher return , there are certain limitations and the accepted wisdom seems to be that the older the employee and the larger the transfer value , the more attractive a section 32 buy-out becomes . |