Example sentences of "to be [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , where land is cropped regularly , there are bound to be times when the soil life is reduced or inhibited to a point where it fails to rebuild the damaged structure . |
| 2 | Yet this apparently admirable material proved to be of almost no use to the party . |
| 3 | It follows from what was said earlier that in a stress-timed language all the feet are supposed to be of roughly the same duration . |
| 4 | But the long-term trend in those areas in which the public interest in regulation ( or possibly politicians ' exposure to public criticism ) is perceived to be greatest , seems to be for both the volume of regulation and the role of government in it to increase . |
| 5 | It was supposed to be for just a day , or maybe two , but it has already been a week … ’ |
| 6 | Gramley ( p. 20 ) seems to be on much the same track when he notes , concerning I saw the library to have burned down : What the speaker saw was not an occurrence , but physical evidence for a condition , a state ; for example , the speaker saw the site , the ruins . |
| 7 | As the distance is too far by road , it is impossible to be at both the start and the finish of the race unless you are actually taking part . |
| 8 | The 1989 total is likely to be at least a third higher . |
| 9 | On the slopes of Everest there are believed to be at least a dozen bodies of climbers who could not get to the top , or could not get down again . |
| 10 | Some of them were said to be at least a hundred years old . |
| 11 | It is not unusual for the sea to be at least a mile 's walk from the coastline sand-dunes . |
| 12 | Liz had joked that they were sure , in the rafters , to discover a dead baby , and indeed they did find there a mummified cat , which a pathologist friend hazarded to be at least a hundred years old . |
| 13 | The value of the grand unification energy is not very well known , but it would probably have to be at least a thousand million million GeV . |
| 14 | His mature attitude seems to be at least a decade ahead of his slight , youthful physique . |
| 15 | In the Firthview cafe , apparently the location of some awful and localised ground subsidence since it was named , because it would have to be at least a storey taller to catch a view of the water , I had a cup of coffee and a game of Space Invaders . |
| 16 | The server needs to be at least an 80386 machine running MS-DOS 4.0 up , any version of OS/2 from 1.3 up , Microsoft LAN Manager 2.0 or 2.1 or Manager Services for Macintosh 1.0 ; Novell NetWare NFS 1.1 , ODI-compliant network adaptor ( Token-Ring or Ethernet ) . |
| 17 | It would have to be at least , erm , what would it have to be , it would have to be at least the benefit , yes , the benefit would have to be at least four on the , on the B's side , in order for that to work . |
| 18 | aporias — because they seem to be at once the results of a communal enterprise while at the same time bearing witness to the fact that this enterprise never existed except as the inhuman reverse side of two opposed actions in which each aims to destroy the other . |
| 19 | It is unlikely to be in exactly the same position , even if she could find it , for during the night there is a great deal of jostling among the youngsters and any one of them may have moved about eighteen inches or so . |
| 20 | As someone who has championed the cause of renewable energy since the mid-1970s , I give a warm personal welcome to my hon. Friend 's statement , which I believe to be in exactly the right direction . |
| 21 | Unfortunately the fish appeared to be in rather a sorry state . |
| 22 | No , it was a piece I am very fond of and it happened to be in quite a few programmes at that time . |
| 23 | They were now the self-confident , responsible young ladies they had been trained to be by both the school and their own families . |
| 24 | Research has shown the method to be by far the most effective disciplinary technique to use in situations of defiance and ( as often occurs ) the ensuing aggression . |
| 25 | I consider that programme to be by far the best report on the effects of screen violence to be shown in recent years . |
| 26 | While employee numbers will be reduced , United Distillers will remain a major employer in the Scotch whisk I industry with around 4,500 employees in Scotland , and will continue to be by far the industry 's largest producer . |