Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [to-vb] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , ‘ It would seem then that the clue to finding real partitioning amongst goods must be to trace some underlying partitioning in society ’ ( 1980 : 907 ) . |
| 2 | The beginning of a strategy for change would be to examine some key stereotypes of disability within that history of misrepresentation which are present today and which need to be challenged . |
| 3 | The other approach would be to do some lateral thinking and use the effluent stream containing the caustic to neutralise an acidic effluent stream from another part of the plant . |
| 4 | One possibility , which has scarcely been explored , would be to take some large sample of the world 's languages and ask what basic pragmatic distinctions are needed to describe their grammatical structures . |
| 5 | Of course , the sensible thing would be to put some decent amounts of money into the poorer bits of Los Angeles , and cities similarly afflicted , but that 's the kind of language most white politicians are programmed to avoid . |
| 6 | To do so without taking into account whether , within the former group , the mother remarried or not , or whether or not uncles , grandfathers or older brothers were able to step into the gap and provide the child with male company , would be to neglect some possible important influences . |
| 7 | More often it will be to establish some intermediate way point in the development path of a system ; in order to carry out a review , for example , or to provide a frozen issue for prototype system testing . |