Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd sooner leave that to be a surprise at the birth . ’ |
| 2 | All news reports would henceforth have first to be " co-ordinated " with the Interior Ministry , while publishing houses could face fines of up to 100,000,000 Turkish lira ( about US$40,000 ) and immediate closure if found guilty of printing any material deemed to " pose a threat to the rule of law " . |
| 3 | If the Troll would normally require 6 to be hit , if it is behind a low wall for example , then the slime makes no difference — it is hard enough to hit already . |
| 4 | According to Chandrasekhar 's analysis the parent star collapses completely to zero radius , and we shall generally take this to be the case . |
| 5 | Commenting on the thirty one thousand , er Mr 's erm er scenario , that the County Council would clearly think this to be erm unreasonable , it would clearly have regional implications er as I said earlier er in my opening remarks er the County Council would accept that it would n't be meeting its regional commitments , erm er it would be difficult in practice bearing in mind the level erm of commitment we 've got and there may well be local problems in in local housing markets with the level of er of growth er at that level . |
| 6 | The variations are so wide that it would contravene both the principle of fair labelling ( see Chapter 3.3 ( 1 ) ) and the principle of maximum certainty ( see Chapter 3.3 ( i ) ) if there were just a single offence of non-fatal harm and a single offence of sexual assault : this would often leave little to be decided at the trial and would transfer the effective decision to the sentencing stage . |
| 7 | In the first place this tax was not , in my view , paid pursuant to a contract that if the money was held not to have been payable it would then fall due to be repaid , thus excluding any right to interest before Nolan J. 's decision . |
| 8 | No amount of American subsidies can give the Haitians a decent government , a disciplined army or the prospect of any economic activity whose profits would remotely approach those to be earned by trans-shipping cocaine . |
| 9 | So if you are asking me what I would like to happen , I would certainly like that to be the case . |
| 10 | Those keeping to a strict 1,000 calories a day allowance will usually find this to be a realistic target . |
| 11 | It is far easier from their point of view if they only need to deal with one entity and they will probably prefer that to be the purchaser as it is the purchaser that has taken over the business . |
| 12 | Even if labour moves between firms , they carry with them more skill and experience than a new recruit and may therefore expect this to be rewarded . |
| 13 | With the symmetry of the rest of the geometry we can only assume this to be from choice rather than from the limitations of the designers ' technology . |
| 14 | It can sometimes seem hard to be part of an active social life if you live by yourself . |