Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A women 's team was launched at her university and this season they seem destined to be the top student side in the UK as they are currently unbeaten and through to the semi-finals of the students ' cup competition . |
| 2 | That 's why we 've come to be the two individuals who are , in inverted comma , Responsible for whatever happens during an incident . |
| 3 | service , look you 've applied to be a |
| 4 | He was incredible ; he could shoot rounds of 64 and 65 any day of the week — and to do that you 've got to be a reasonable putter . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Sometimes you 've got to be a little cruel to be kind ! |
| 7 | ‘ Aye ; you 've got to be a real man to play this game , ’ Howie says , winking and taking up his glass . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But apart from this er for Leicester this Alan now they 're starting to s squeeze a little bit and they 've got to be a little bit careful they do n't leave Collimore too much space to run into . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've got to be a bloody bastard . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You 've got to be a bloody bastard . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | You 've got to be a bit more er intelligent when . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | You 've got to be a bit careful when you 're renting out though . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | of when you 've got to be a rotter to get on but I 'm afraid that 's how it 's gon na be |
| 19 | Oh yeah and of course you 've got to be a bit careful as well when you hear all these things on the motorway |
| 20 | This time next week lad you 'll be at nanny 's , you 've got to be a good boy |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | You 've got to be a |
| 23 | You 've got to be a blooming chemist now to de , de , decipher all these labels . |
| 24 | And you 've got to be a big dog to pull in a boat . |
| 25 | She came home in floods of tears , ‘ I 've got to be a nurse , I ca n't be an architect ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Therefore you 've got to be selective in what you do and you 've got to be the right person to deal with those things , of course . |
| 28 | ‘ I feel like he 's the child , and I 've got to be the adult . ’ |
| 29 | I think if you 're going to be the only boy , you 've got to be the eldest . |
| 30 | I mean I could quite easily delegate it out , but I ca n't because it 's a management function , so , I 've got to be the one that 's got to walk round the branch for half an hour , taking twelve blocks off , checking all the sealed . |