Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] be [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have secretly wished to be lovers for years but the consummation of their affair is a recent event . |
| 2 | 17.11 Just as many young children come to school believing that they can read , so they will come willing to try to be writers . |
| 3 | The attack on Quine therefore has two prongs , the rejection of MP and an attempt to show that we do not need to be atomists in order to account for the possibility of language learning . |
| 4 | These broadcasts do n't need to be records because live performances on local radio can also count . |
| 5 | There will need to be contracts negotiated between purchasers and providers for hospital services . |
| 6 | There would need to be rebates for low-income families and for long-stay patients but the idea was that the working population would be required by law to obtain health insurance . |
| 7 | We realise that there will need to be additions to the job description and profile to take account of the different judicial offices such as district judge or circuit judge , but overall the job description and personal profile describe the essential qualities needed for any judge . |
| 8 | Still to come , Conservatives on Oxfordshire County Council say there wo n't need to be cuts in services to stay within next year 's Government budget estimate . |
| 9 | There would need to be tests . |
| 10 | In systems terms , there would also need to be mechanisms for taking control or corrective action based on defined measures of performance , related in this case to the effectiveness of education provision ( ie ensuring that the curriculum delivered meets the defined education requirements ) , and to the accurate provision of resources . |
| 11 | Thirdly , there would need to be modifications to the notion of id-impulses , for these can not be a direct emotion , unfiltered , as it were , by the expressive symbolism of the common culture . |
| 12 | We do not need to be feminists to see this as blatant and shocking selfishness . |
| 13 | People do not need to be politicians to engage in politics . |
| 14 | Does not the proactivity need to be politicians of all parties coming together and discussing and listening to each other rather than simply making pronouncements ? |
| 15 | His aunt and uncle promised to be witnesses , but were dissuaded by his mother at the last moment . |
| 16 | They are separated by major fault zones , in most cases now demonstrated to be thrusts , which have on average an east-west trend . |
| 17 | The previous chapter covered the circumstances in which partners cease to be members of their firms . |
| 18 | Both the transferor and Target can then be sold to Newco so as to avoid a charge by virtue of s178(2) or 179(2) , which provide that where two or more " associated companies " cease to be members of the group at the same time there is no deemed disposal and re-acquisition of the assets transferred between them . |
| 19 | Science ultimately is self-contradictory precisely because , although it begins with a supposal about reality , it also depends upon a concrete reality ; and once scientists admit the necessarily hypothetical character of that knowledge , they cease to be scientists . |
| 20 | The contributions of speaker B cease to be attempts to add anything to the conversational topic . |
| 21 | Eurodollars can be used to cover transactions inside the US , at which point they cease to be Eurodollars and revert to being ordinary , domestic US$ again . |
| 22 | The fossils appear to be relatives of Hallucigenia , with flat scaly plates reminiscent of its spines ( though not leg-like ) and similar tentacles . |
| 23 | Damage to the three-storey building is extensive , and police say there appear to be signs of a break-in . |
| 24 | ‘ They appear to be plans for turning our house into two flats . ’ |
| 25 | These aftermarket modifications appear to be spin-offs from that work . |
| 26 | Here most such movements appear to be reactions against the centralisation of state , economic or cultural power , against bureaucratisation , or else they express various other local or sectional discontents capable of being wrapped in coloured banners . |
| 27 | Here too the most common solutions appear to be women doctors and black doctors , albeit organised in collectives rather than on entrepreneurial , bureaucratic or capitalist lines . |
| 28 | Mark Tansey , he of the sly sense of humour , has often explored landscapes , sometimes building them up from what appear to be lines of typography . |
| 29 | A second point to be considered is that although there appear to be differences between the exemplars of low risk junctions in the amount of information in the films such differences are small compared to the differences in P(A) that were observed . |
| 30 | All the riders in the school appear to be girls , so unfortunately we will have to train from scratch in that department . ’ |