Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [prep] be a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had to be a passive , consenting thing , like a slave , a physical slave … . |
| 2 | You had to be a good farmer to do that , a good practical farmer . |
| 3 | Well you have to be a non-tax payer , you ca n't cheat . |
| 4 | I told Aunty Sharon you have to be a good boy though . |
| 5 | It is a kind of brainwashing , because underneath the ad for the chocolate is another kind of message , saying you must be slim , heterosexual , white ; you have to be a certain class , have money . |
| 6 | I think you have to er , er , you have to be a certain kind of person , you have to be prepared to anything do n't you ? |
| 7 | The condition : you have to be a Tory party supporter . |
| 8 | There 's no doubt that to operate these schemes you have to be a sensitive lender . ’ |
| 9 | I think we have to be a little bit careful about this because , of course , erm the feeling is not that once they 've been in the job for a little while that they are still amateurs , it 's merely that we do n't require them to know a great deal about what they 're going to do before they start . |
| 10 | They have to be a good thing for anyone who is content to be out of shares and keep part of their money in liquid money funds ’ . |
| 11 | Second , he has to be a prolific print-maker , and the prints themselves , though perhaps individually rare , must collectively be in reasonably good supply . |
| 12 | But it has to be a gradual process . ’ |
| 13 | It has to be a serious process of thought and research , both about the candidate 's own interests and motivation , and about the type of course and institution which they want to attend . |
| 14 | It has to be a certain size it has be flying |
| 15 | ‘ And it has to be a good idea to stay on here , in the Hamptons , until tomorrow , ’ she added as she finished packing up the hampers . |
| 16 | There is an additional aspect that erm we we must look also , I think , at the viability of the services and facilities , er , within the new settlement , if the new settlement is , for the sake of argument five hundred houses then my submission is that that really offers no long term viability for any facility or service , erm , clearly you might get a primary school if the new settlement size was of the order of eight hundred to a thousand dwellings , but you would not get any sizable retail element , and so however far that settlement was located from the main centre they would still become dependant on that centre , and that 's why I think it 's important to recognize that if you are to achieve the erm if you like the balance of requirements , of achieving erm a reasonable degree of self containment within the new settlement , but also meet the needs of York , it has to be a reasonable size , but located as close to York as possible |
| 17 | Er it has to be a small group . |
| 18 | It has to be a genuine partnership at Cabinet level and all levels of coalition government of the sort that is absolutely established and highly stable on the continent . ’ |
| 19 | It has to be an account in the wife 's name , it has to be a genuine transfer to a wife so that there 's no doubt about it but it is a on her account . |
| 20 | It has to be a genuine transfer of an asset . |
| 21 | And therefore it has to be a separate account . |
| 22 | ‘ It has to be a double act , ’ he says . |
| 23 | It has to be a shared responsibility . |
| 24 | If there 's one nail-care necessity , it has to be a buffing pad . |
| 25 | the account into which it 's paid , does that account into which the three four four five interest is paid , does that have to be in my wife 's name , or does it have to be a joint |
| 26 | Does it have to be a exact amount |
| 27 | It was the Mataura that had brought them from Scotland , and it had to be a good omen . |
| 28 | He was a busy man , of course , and you could n't waste his time with trivia ; it had to be a major problem . |
| 29 | It had to be a shaggy dog story , but we decided to contact the pooch ourselves to see if the tale was genuine . |
| 30 | It had to be a collective propagandist , agitator , and organizer as well . |