Example sentences of "'ve [vb pp] to be a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | of when you 've got to be a rotter to get on but I 'm afraid that 's how it 's gon na be |
| 2 | She came home in floods of tears , ‘ I 've got to be a nurse , I ca n't be an architect ’ . |
| 3 | Wind 's colder now , you 've got to be a kid to enjoy it , go shooting down the hill flailing your arms pretending to be an aeroplane . |
| 4 | In fact you wo n't get any sexually mature erm er woman to have er any relationship with men , unofficial or otherwise if you 're not initiated because they 'll just say you 're a boy and , and er and er an adult woman would feel it was demeaning you know to sleep with a mere boy , she 'd insist you 've got to be a man and to be a man you normally got to be initiated and that normally means being circumcised . |
| 5 | Yes , you 've got , you 've got to be a bit careful with broken skin because if you put things directly on it , they tend to irritate . |
| 6 | But of course we 've got to be a bit careful , because the Americans are going , sort of the other way now , that people ca n't wear perfume and deodorant , that , that smell and things like that , can they , because it 's now seen as being equally as difficult as people who smoke . |
| 7 | You 've got to be a bit more er intelligent when . |
| 8 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 9 | You 've got to be a bit careful when you 're renting out though . |
| 10 | Oh yeah and of course you 've got to be a bit careful as well when you hear all these things on the motorway |
| 11 | It does please me but the thing sometimes is , you do n't get results , I mean I just said to him at half time ‘ come on we 've got to be a bit stronger , ’ you know I thought we were playing quite well , but I thought we were letting them dominate us a little bit . |
| 12 | it is n't the case of just being a fireman say get a rescue tender and whirl it up and erm there about , you 've got to get , you 've got to be a fire , if you be a fireman you 've got to get in everything erm |
| 13 | and have a decent life to get a first or either a two one in economics you have got to read a very great deal , you 've got to be a reader , a student a taker of notes , a writer of essays and we said that is not you so within two |
| 14 | We 've tried to be a bit more daring . |
| 15 | ‘ I did n't like to tell you before but I 've learned to be a dab hand at tapping the boots myself . |