Example sentences of "[to-vb] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ought to I ought to 've been the bloody brainiest in country me |
| 2 | It may be for everyone who comes to buy a ticket , but those who do choose to go are a small minority of the population . |
| 3 | Compaq Computer Corp says that the restructuring of its field and reseller support operations in the US to increase interaction with its broadened customer base and provide enhanced support to its resellers ( CI No 2,148 ) , will cost about 150 field employees their jobs , but the loss will be partially offset by an as-yet-undetermined number of employees to be hired at the company 's Houston headquarters as part of the reorganisation ; the 150 to go are the last of the 1,000 jobs that it said it planned to cut in October . |
| 4 | All I have to wear are the same old rags I 've had for years . |
| 5 | Among the peculiarities of the Oxford scheme which other institutions find hard to replicate are the following : |
| 6 | When there is a severe food shortage , the first to suffer are the larger animals . |
| 7 | Finally , the disincentives to innovate are a familiar problem in public bureaucracies . |
| 8 | The need to communicate is a key characteristic of human society ; it serves basic social functions and it signals the ability to store information and to learn from it . |
| 9 | Still to come is the awful Ghost Dad , basically another attempt to get Bill Cosby 's TV act to work on the big screen ( Bill plays a workaholic dad who , once dead , gets to spend more time with his family ) . |
| 10 | The fact that these emotions exist in industrial and other enterprises and that the ego finds ways of defending against bad experiences is not at issue ; what is more difficult to establish is the complex way in which these feelings are dealt with . |
| 11 | Even more difficult to establish is the relative economic importance of individual small towns in the regional and urban hierarchy to what extent was a small town or village dependent on its major neighbours , and how much did the larger towns and cities rely on supplies from the former ? |
| 12 | We do the first bit who needs to be trained what do they need to know is the second |
| 13 | It is also confusion between a proper assurance based on experience and the insight deriving from it , and the dogmatism which so easily follows but is distinct from it , and which insists that what we happen to know is the only thing that matters — what others have discovered or had revealed to them is unimportant . |
| 14 | With a practice partner all you need to know is the key word chosen . |
| 15 | ‘ One other thing they 'll want to know is the real reason why Sara was in father 's office at just after six this morning . ’ |
| 16 | The least one expects to find is a well-appointed house with interesting decorative features . |
| 17 | Looking for something that you do n't expect to find is a demoralizing task , and succeeding in finding nothing offers only a dreary satisfaction . |
| 18 | However , the ability to jump was the only pleasant aspect of Mildred 's new condition and a sudden , hot wave of panic seized her . |
| 19 | But whatever the future might hold , the friendly relationship between Henry and Louis which that act of homage had helped to establish was an important contributory factor in the happy and optimistic atmosphere in which Richard was conceived — the fourth child born to Eleanor and Henry in five years of marriage . |
| 20 | I was told that all I needed to know was the total spend and that was it . |
| 21 | The point was made that jobs ‘ promoted ’ were not a true count of REAL jobs ; what we needed to know was the true job completion rate effected for what length of time — actual jobs and how long they lasted . |
| 22 | The one thing I did not expect to find was a single neat principle accounting for almost every odd aspect of Western usage of meat . |
| 23 | Amongst the books , tracts , poetry , and pamphlets that the young would-be intellectuals began to absorb was the new writing from the United States , that accompaniment to the modern jazz that survived alongside rock into the 1960s . |
| 24 | In chronological order , the first to appear was the fenced fin , on which horizontal fences around the foil aimed to prevent the offending air bubbles from working down the fin . |
| 25 | The most important area on which to concentrate was the massive amount of water required by the production of textiles . |
| 26 | Among the questions which we hope to answer are the following : 1 . |
| 27 | The ones you tend to remember are the worse ones , those that are particularly cruel . |
| 28 | The things to remember are the practical ones about yourself . |
| 29 | Popular places to visit are the historic town of Lancaster with its medieval castle and maritime museum , and , for railway enthusiasts Steamtown at Carnforth , where visitors can take a ride on a steam locomotive . |
| 30 | The people we were invited to remember were an old woman , a hospital patient , a homeless young girl , and so on . |