Example sentences of "[vb -s] to [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he explained : ‘ My starting point has to be a vision , otherwise I can not do anything . |
| 2 | there must be , there has to be a separation between Church and State and we totally endorse and emphatically reiterate that , but the separation between Church and State does not mean a separation between conscience and the electorate 's responsibility in voting . |
| 3 | There has to be a time , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , laying down the pen , began to type again , there has to be a time when excuses are no longer necessary , will never again be necessary , there has to be such a time in everybody 's life , when too soon and too late no longer mean anything , a time , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , when one starts because one starts and for no other reason . |
| 4 | There has to be a time , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , laying down the pen , began to type again , there has to be a time when excuses are no longer necessary , will never again be necessary , there has to be such a time in everybody 's life , when too soon and too late no longer mean anything , a time , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , when one starts because one starts and for no other reason . |
| 5 | One person living there has to be a Sally Ann person of some sort , but otherwise it 's just everyone with their own room but sharing kitchen and bathroom . |
| 6 | Every movement on stage has to be a conscious effort on the dancer 's part if it is to make its proper impact . |
| 7 | New guidance from the Department of Health says that with health authorities becoming purchasers of care from self-governing , directly managed and private hospitals , there has to be a risk of hospitals gaining a local monopoly of a particular service , or joining others in cartels . |
| 8 | ‘ Now we 're saying that there has to be a complete ban on overtime and that they should resist moral blackmail . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ A sport just has to be a bit flexible . ’ |
| 10 | First , the artist has to be a ‘ major name ’ . |
| 11 | Second , he has to be a prolific print-maker , and the prints themselves , though perhaps individually rare , must collectively be in reasonably good supply . |
| 12 | As is the case with most tournaments of this kind , there has to be a peg to hang it on , and this one is to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jawaharlal Nehru . |
| 13 | It has to be a shared responsibility . |
| 14 | Unfortunately nowadays every departmental minister has to be a secretary of state , just as every unimportant diplomatic station has to be an embassy . |
| 15 | There has to be a period of simply understanding how things work ; then graduating to some degree of management control . |
| 16 | If there 's one nail-care necessity , it has to be a buffing pad . |
| 17 | It follows that behind every statement we make about the historical Jesus there has to be a tacit qualification : ‘ We are told this by such-and-such an evangelist , writing in a particular literary mode , far a particular audience , in a particular place at a particular period of history . ’ |
| 18 | This has to be a mistake , he had thought , as they were directed ever closer to the front . |
| 19 | With the existing ethnic balance between Czechs and Slovaks in senior positions , the new president has to be a Czech , thus ruling out Mr Alexander Dubcek , the leader of the Prague Spring of 1968 , who is also a Slovak . |
| 20 | There has to be a new definition of sexuality : nurtured by everyday physical experience rather than separate from it , revered for its danger yet ribald and jolly , both everyday and sacramental . |
| 21 | Whereas there has to be a limit on how much grain is eaten . |
| 22 | GLENYS KINNOCK said in Scotland during the week : ‘ I think abortion has to be a matter of individual conscience . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ We are saying it has to be a coalition . |
| 24 | It has to be a partnership . |
| 25 | It has to be a genuine partnership at Cabinet level and all levels of coalition government of the sort that is absolutely established and highly stable on the continent . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I have made it quite clear from the beginning that a partnership government has to be a partnership at all levels , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Harris argues , however , that a van like a Transit has to appeal to a wide cross-section of operators , and that means the design has to be a compromise . |
| 28 | Marlborough 's art work has been accused by some critics of being too prescribed , a charge Robin Child refutes , insisting that ‘ there has to be a starting point , a language learnt ’ . |
| 29 | There also has to be a balance between responsive and targeted grants . |
| 30 | As Lawrence Stenhouse ( 1981 ) puts it , there has to be a mutuality . |