Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the time has now come for the National Heritage Memorial Fund to be split and a separate body established for Scotland . |
| 2 | It has to be said that the plays are somewhat thin in material , and the characterisation weak , but they were both offended by the offhand refusal and the Corporation 's unwillingness to offer even the slightest guidance for the betterment of the projects . |
| 3 | Now it has to be said that the people of that period could at least understand such notions as ‘ sacrifice ’ , ‘ propitiation ’ and ‘ atonement ’ . |
| 4 | The scheme was a dismal attempt at wholesale social engineering , at wiping out the past and beginning all over again — although it has to be said that the new phonetic script itself , based on a design by someone called Kingsley Read , was rather attractive . |
| 5 | However , it has to be said that the British lag behind other European countries , particularly Germany , in this respect . |
| 6 | Lest it be thought that the matriarchs are supreme in this artless craft of rendering service into an offensive act , it has to be said that the Glasgow cabbie is in a class of his own . |
| 7 | It has to be said that the existence of self-help books , such as this one , is regarded as part of the problem by some doctors . |
| 8 | It has to be said that the world would be a much better place if we just got on and did things instead of waiting for other people to do them on our behalf . |
| 9 | This reassurance is welcome , but it has to be said that the change gives less prominence to this requirement , and we shall need to watch with care that it is properly covered in the assessment arrangements . |
| 10 | It also has to be said that the number of residencies and placements have been severely curtailed recently by the cost-saving measures of many authorities and organisations . |
| 11 | It is too easy to slip into a mood of depression at the outset of what promises to be a period of very significant change in education but , in relation to the concerns identified earlier , it would have to be said that the omens are not propitious . |
| 12 | It has to be said that the countries in this bit of the world , which were previously part of the Soviet Union , do not look a promising market . |
| 13 | At the same time the kairos approach apparently allows it to be said that the past has not been at fault ; it is simply that God moves with humanity into a new age . |
| 14 | In the 1970s it used to be said that the British paid themselves more than they really earned . |
| 15 | Well it ought to be said that the world today , in this year nineteen ninety two , is a different place from what it was a hundred years ago . |
| 16 | It used to be said that the Labour Party was a ‘ broad church ’ , as it managed to contain such a wide range of opinion . |
| 17 | In the final analysis it has to be said that the Macintosh is a better system for desktop publishing than the PC on both technical and user grounds . |
| 18 | So far as the variability in the attainment of learners is concerned , it has to be said that the situation is not unique : strategies of other disciplines of teaching can be successfully adopted . |
| 19 | It has to be said that the prospects for the house and farm buildings did not seem promising when Gordon Pratt of Hawes Auction Mart opened the bids on 28 October 1988 . |
| 20 | It has to be said that the Shah was not totally displeased by this exodus . |
| 21 | It used to be said that the gypsies stole little children . |
| 22 | Residential work declined for the third successive month , although it has to be said that the average monthly value since the start of the year is higher than for the last five months of 1992 . |
| 23 | It has to be said that the user interface to DW1.2 is of the first order . |
| 24 | The term remote sensing is fairly self-explanatory , but it needs to be said that the word ‘ remote ’ is used advisedly , for it is usually observation from aircraft or even satellites that is in question . |
| 25 | On the other hand it has to be said that the er publicity for that does not seem to have penetrated very far amongst foreign visitors and there is n't very much evidence that foreign visitors have been put off coming here in spite of the considerable number of incidents that there have been in this country , particularly in London of course in the last year or so . |
| 26 | It has to be said that the current U D P of Leeds makes er an a an allowance of migration of net out migration of just over about nine thousand three hundred per five year period . |
| 27 | It has to be said that the Court of Appeal 's judgment is weak . |
| 28 | It has to be said that the new home top looks really sad on a large beergut . |
| 29 | In fact the revised economic development strategy which Professor Lock probably does n't have a copy of , refers to inward inward investment as being desirable erm and is of critical importance but whilst it will be vigorously sort in this way it has to be said that the bulk of North Yorkshire suffers from a relative lack of financial incentives from Central Government in terms of whose regional policy does not have a priority . |
| 30 | ‘ He had been nursed superbly and that needs to be said because the nurses have gone through a difficult time for obvious reasons and I would like to assure them , in public , that what they have done was quite superlative . ’ |