Example sentences of "[prep] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I suppose probably people li like nursemaids and er and er what they used to call in those days mothers ' helps , who used to sort of be a general skivvy around the house and would look after the children , and , and , and they were the same , they had to be in I think at , at sort of ten o'clock at night . |
| 2 | Oh , it 's got ta be a flat roof then . |
| 3 | It 's got ta be a good thing if you miss it bad enough . |
| 4 | You 've got ta be a good girl and cross at the traffic island which is up there opposite . |
| 5 | When you go to nursery you 've got ta be a good boy otherwise Mrs M , Mrs Wilkins will tell you off . |
| 6 | Well you see it 's got ta be a reasonable fit . |
| 7 | Got ta be a certain level , O sev , A |
| 8 | It 's got ta be a bright colour . |
| 9 | and then after the course there 's got ta be a post-evaluation form fed out . |
| 10 | If those figures are right of four hundred and ten now you do n't need to be a real big mathematician , even at this time of night , but you , if you have the two hundred and thirty four out of commission and you 've got to have those cos that 's got ta be a rolling programme each four years . |
| 11 | The lyrics are pretty much standard , if mild , slackness , a typical ragga-gruff voice explaining how you 've got ta be a top shag to please a girl . |
| 12 | It 's only got ta be a little tin foil . |
| 13 | The conclusion is not supposed to be a bland endorsement of the essay title or a simple restatement of what has gone before . |
| 14 | ‘ Now we 're saying that there has to be a complete ban on overtime and that they should resist moral blackmail . ’ |
| 15 | But he said there would have to be a complete overhaul of the electoral system first . |
| 16 | Psychologist Mary Russell never even thought about reincarnation until she was in her late 30s , when her life seemed to be a complete mess . |
| 17 | The songs fell together in a muddy pool of short-sighted production : not a bad début album by any standards but this was intended to be a complete signal post in the history of popular music . |
| 18 | Even as a poisoner , not , you would have thought , the most demanding of professions , he seemed to be a complete failure . |
| 19 | And in order to get in to that state of mind one does not have to be a complete lifelong fanatic , one only has to be completely absorbed for the moment by a particular cause , and that kind of absorption is of course something which good causes often do seem to demand . |
| 20 | For the first time Aranyos seemed uncertain how to proceed , sucking his lip thoughtfully for several seconds before continuing , ‘ It involves looking into a curious business which could prove to be a complete dead end , namely an attack on a girl in the Bauernmarkt last Saturday evening . |
| 21 | It comes from an American baseball player named Thompson , purchased at colossal expense by a Japanese team , who , when he arrived , turned out to be a complete dud , incapable even of hitting the ball . |
| 22 | You 'd have to be a complete and utter grimboid to miss it … |
| 23 | The arrival of the ‘ Extremities , Dirt And Various Repressed Emotions ’ album seemed to provide an apt moment to compile the required discography and , thanks to help from readers John Elliot of Hawick and Mark from Sheffield along with Frank O'Donnell and his valiant cohorts at PolyGram , I 've managed to piece together what would seem to be a complete run-down . |
| 24 | Designed to be a complete teaching package , Fanfare does not need to be supplemented by any additional material . |
| 25 | It was to be a complete history of the London Underground . |
| 26 | This short section does not purport to be a complete statement of the legal position regarding vertical activity . |
| 27 | The two understudies were asked to come back on the Friday afternoon , when there was going to be a complete run of the play for the producers and Malcolm Harris . |
| 28 | In what was claimed to be a complete coincidence , Israel launched Ofek 2 , its second space satellite , on April 3 [ for launch of Ofek 1 in September 1988 see p. 36637 ] . |
| 29 | He had given a picture of religion , which represented it as primarily concerned with guilt , with taboos against incest , and as er , representing the origins of civilization in primeval societies like those of the Australian Aborigines , and Freud erm , remarks in the opening pages of Civilization and Discontents that Totem and Taboo was never meant to be a complete theory of religion . |
| 30 | In 1945 contributory negligence ceased to be a complete defence and became grounds for apportioning liability . |