Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] to be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Making people look the way you want them to is an important part of the colonial process . |
| 2 | ‘ Everywhere I go people expect me to be the happy person they see on TV . |
| 3 | During the strike , the police found them to be a useful device with which to restrict the freedom of movement of pickets . |
| 4 | Lotze 's sentence was , however , above the nine years requested by the prosecution ; the court did not consider his to be a true case of state 's evidence , since it had neither led to further arrests nor prevented a crime . |
| 5 | But they will be designed to encourage you to be a long-term holder rather than to enable you to take a quick profit . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , yeah , but they do n't exactly consider you to be the greatest thing since sliced bread , now do they ? ’ she opined . |
| 7 | ‘ I want you to be a good little girl and go home to Mummy and Daddy while I finish the season . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've some wonderful news , ’ said Phil , ‘ and I want you to be the first to know . |
| 9 | Geoffrey Fisher went from Repton to be Bishop of Chester and invited him to be an examining chaplain ; which he accepted — it would mean two or three visits a year — and was surprised to find how friendly Fisher was when they were not in the relation of boy and headmaster . |
| 10 | Well , we hardly expect him to be a successful , happily married bank manager with four lovely kids just coming up to GCE or whatever they call it now . |
| 11 | ‘ I found him to be a wise friend and an exemplorary leader of the western world . |
| 12 | In a feature interview with Percy Grainger next day I found him to be a charming and modest man , and was glad to write in glowing terms of his keyboard mastery , his repertoire , and his travels . |
| 13 | When the three met with Father Vinko , the parish priest at Caratis , they found him to be a cheerful ‘ hands on ’ worker . |
| 14 | He wants her to be the top model in the world . |
| 15 | I think you 'll find he wants him to be the best player in Scotland and NOT England |
| 16 | Yes , but can that just be the income , or has it to be the whole capital ? |
| 17 | Is the person likely to feel coerced , even although you may consider it to be the best course of action for the individual ? |
| 18 | I found it to be a splendid panegyric on the peaceful uses of atomic energy , though to present a history of nuclear power without even mentioning the existence of hydrogen bombs , may be thought by some to overdo the euphoria . |
| 19 | When they reached the stream they found it to be a rushing torrent that swept in mad haste along a narrow bed . |
| 20 | He can simply state in evidence that he examined the licence and found it to be a current provisional . |
| 21 | I never found it to be a boring job , erm if it is boring I think it 's because they 're only making it , if they make it that way and I think it 's partly due , if they , if people do talk that way then I think it 's partly due to the sort of duty systems that people work now , and erm the number of hours they work , and , and strangely for little things like the introduction of television , I think television , very nice in its way but it 's killed life on fire stations and in certain areas , cos the whole business of conversation and learning and so on has gone , people would much sooner sit nowadays in front of the television and be entertained for an evening , instead of using all the other skills and , and erm things that are offered to them . |
| 22 | Changing direction , she hurried towards the place , and found it to be a large open space , surrounded by little shops , their shutters closed now , but by the legends she could just see painted above their doors they were given over to trade . |
| 23 | I checked the engine number with Perkins ( whom I might add were extremely pleasant and helpful ) who later found it to be the 4236 , rated at 82 bhp . |
| 24 | And wherever he went in the city he found it to be the same . |
| 25 | ‘ We want it to be a nice family affair . ’ |
| 26 | It 's not just that , it 's something that people make , like they make cakes or clubs , or anything else , and this is the interesting thing in religion at the moment , the relativization which scares people , of course , who want it to be an absolute authority which they can just debase themselves before . |
| 27 | B arcelona will be Mota 's last major championship run and she wants it to be the perfect platform to retire from the international scene . |
| 28 | I remember my mother wanting me to be a personal assistant to a managing director . |
| 29 | Blur tussle with ‘ Maggie May ’ and Suede , whose current B-sides show them to be a better band than the extremes of hype surrounding them might have encouraged you to believe , cover ‘ Brass In Pocket ’ . |
| 30 | We used them as demos but we cut them to be the real thing . ’ |