Example sentences of "[to-vb] be a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Finally , the disincentives to innovate are a familiar problem in public bureaucracies . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The least one expects to find is a well-appointed house with interesting decorative features . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The people we were invited to remember were an old woman , a hospital patient , a homeless young girl , and so on . |
| 7 | The purpose of this article is to evaluate is a pure alcohol injection is required after an epinephrine injection to arrest peptic ulcer haemorrhage . |
| 8 | For stairs , where safety is paramount , the best material to choose is a heavy-duty carpet with a short pile , which can also be used on the landing . |
| 9 | In me the need to talk is a primary impulse , and I ca n't help saying right off what comes to my tongue . |
| 10 | The right to buy with a duty to replace is a good housing policy , but the right to buy without a duty to replace is a housing disaster . |
| 11 | Apart from certain skilled trades , the attempt to unionize was an uphill battle for most workers until the Great Depression of the 30s . |
| 12 | If so , would any election candidate care to suggest that people attempting such risky activities should be legally bound to have sufficient medical insurance to avoid being a financial burden on the NHS and delaying hospital treatment for those needing it through no fault of their own ? |
| 13 | One of the problems that will be encountered is that we may find words which are obviously complex but which , when we divide them into stem + affix , turn out to have a stem that it is difficult to imagine is an English word . |
| 14 | learning to see and remembering to look is a life-long process , as the work of any visual artist readily demonstrates . |
| 15 | ‘ Cricket gave me so much that I want to put something back into the game and teaching the youngsters how to play is a rewarding way of doing it . |
| 16 | The most obvious trap to avoid is a stringent comparison of ROIs as an indication of what each SBU is contributing to the total group . |
| 17 | The responsibility every Kindertransporte worker wanted to avoid was a last-minute decision on numbers . |
| 18 | His Cabinet 's threat to resign was a deliberate move to bring matters to a head . |
| 19 | Behind his conscious wish to help was an unconscious fear of losing his wife to the baby . |
| 20 | Other youngsters helped with hyperactive teenagers who were so severely disturbed that to encourage a patient to smile was a major success story . |
| 21 | A period with slow stirring to allow time for the floc to form is an important stage in the flocculation treatment . |
| 22 | For most point to point is a good day out … an afternoon of country sport … the competition is keen … the racing hard and winning isn ’ t the be all and end all … for some horses and riders though this game is the first hurdle … a fence they have to jump to make the big time |
| 23 | His substitution of a new paper for the one he was invited to give is a major impingement on the negative face of the conference organisers and his audience , yet he does not use any redressive action to limit the damage . |
| 24 | And I think that quite clearly proves that what you need to do is a detailed evaluation of all these criteria , all of them which reflect as a appropriate strategic guidance , to come er er to a balanced view . |
| 25 | Now to sell that over the phone when you have n't got the brochures and to do is a difficult side of it . |
| 26 | What you also need to do is an annual cashflow projection , which will show the periods when you are likely to have a lot of bills coming in and how long you are likely to have in between to put money aside for the tough months . |
| 27 | All that was left to do was a big hole in the wall by the sink that needed filling . |
| 28 | You 've got to start being a good boy now . |
| 29 | The reality you have to recreate is an underground network of caverns and caves that you must delve into in order to complete your quest . |
| 30 | Lise 's dance when she sweeps the floor before helping Mother Simone to spin is an excellent example of how the subtle timing of gesture can be and is helped by the appropriate choice of music . |