Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The females had dropped their young and reared them to the point where they could survive to be next year 's prey . |
| 2 | There would also need to be higher rates of tax built on top of this sum . |
| 3 | It does n't need to be strong wind to ruin the sound on a shot , the lightest of breezes can sound like a Force 8 gale in spite of the foam wind-shield with which the microphone is no doubt adorned . |
| 4 | A corporation tax deduction will be available to Newco for contributions made to a non-qualifying employee trust provided that : ( a ) the contributions are regular and of a revenue nature ; ( b ) the contributions are voluntary ( so as not to constitute annual payments within s337(2) ( b ) TA 1988 ) ; ( c ) the class of beneficiaries under the trust is confined to employees of the settlor company , so there will need to be multiple settlors if all the employees in a group of companies are to benefit and the various companies in the group that are contributing wish to ensure corporation tax deductions ; and ( d ) the companies themselves are entirely excluded from benefiting under the terms of the trust . |
| 5 | They did n't need to be rounded characterisations , just functional bit parts . |
| 6 | The units could have a counter top and there would need to be efficient lighting . |
| 7 | They need to be clear , they need to be simple words , they do n't need to be complex ones , because you 've got to put over what you 're saying very clearly . |
| 8 | Where there are boys alone in the front rows there may need to be parallel opportunities for girls , either by turn or by the formation of a second choir . |
| 9 | The agreement was based on the famous — some would say infamous-five principles : unimpeded progress to majority rule ( already enshrined in the 1961 Constitution ) had to be maintained and guaranteed ; there would have to be guarantees against retrogressive amendment of the Constitution ; there would need to be immediate improvement in the political status of the black population ; there would have to be progress towards ending racial discrimination ; and the British government would need to be satisfied that any basis proposed for independence was acceptable to the people of Rhodesia as a whole . |
| 10 | Dr Pentreath said there would now need to be two registers , each containing data derived from two organisations thus confusing the public and independent groups and undermining public confidence . |
| 11 | Well the question then is do we need to be charging work supervisors |
| 12 | No complaints about roominess up front but , surprisingly for what ought to be a five-seater , three in the back would need to be qualified weight watchers . |
| 13 | Certainly , there would need to be sound reasons to pursue it under such circumstances . |
| 14 | Socio-cultural anthropologists do not need to be expert anatomists or geneticists or specialists in the biology of nutrition but they are likely to talk a lot of nonsense if they do not take account of what experts in such matters have been able to discover . |
| 15 | There does need to be some organisation and structure , teachers do need time to organise their classrooms before the start of school and no one really wants to engage in long discussions when there are children to be settled and registers to be marked . |
| 16 | Usually to be defined as child sex abuse I think w for most authors there 'd need to be some kind of discrepancy in the ages in some way , that is y'know if somebody was about thirteen and the other person was about eighteen it might be ah starting to get er a big enough discrepancy to be outside the realm of of y'know kind of normal y'know sort of boyfriend and girlfriend to use those saccarinous terms erm relationships and maybe might be considered to be er to be something like child abuse . |
| 17 | But I do n't , not only that Marg , I mean , it 's become like a , but the only thing I do object to is these people marching about , and they do n't want to help pay for their children 's |
| 18 | We can divide the components of sea water into three erm categories firstly those things which we can consider to be major constituents these are substances which are present are concentrations greater than one part per million . |
| 19 | I would argue , however , that there is a difference between what one might consider to be reasonable use by passenger traffic during the day , and the disturbances that might arise from that , and the use of the line at night by heavy goods traffic . |
| 20 | The auction itself , while the organisers assured me was no more than their normal one , carried quite a few important items of furniture and there was also a wide range of smalls which commanded what I would consider to be better-than-normal prices . |
| 21 | Writing to Ellen , never her most sympathetic correspondent , was dreary work since all she could think of were frantic pleas to tell her of Oreste and she grew tired of begging long before she reached the end of the first sheet . |
| 22 | All I could think of was that joke — ‘ What has four legs and an arm ? |
| 23 | All she could think of was pine-scented engine oil and the need to get it out of her system . |
| 24 | You can do without carpet but you 've got to have somewhere to sit and the least you can make do with is one sofa or two good chairs . |
| 25 | You know you might have a gene which says well you 'll grow to be six foot , but if you 're not fed properly |
| 26 | The main point about this example was to show that social roles which speakers of English would ordinarily assume to be alternative titles for the same individual , e.g. , " father " , " husband " , " begetter of wife 's children " , are not only distinguishable but may be distributed in quite unexpected ways . |
| 27 | The Government Actuary in 1975 estimated that only 15 per cent of those who would have exercised the contribution option would choose to be full contributors when the new scheme took effect . |
| 28 | To compare the costs over both postal rates , there would appear to be two possibilities : |
| 29 | What may appear to be one type of soil may have the attachment characteristics of a different layer of soil beneath it in which case the underlying soil dictates the chemical . |
| 30 | There would , however , appear to be one question on which there is unanimity of opinion and that is that Japan must be protected as far as possible from Communistic influences and from infiltration from the USSR . |