Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I now bring before you all the attitudes I now realise to be wrong . |
| 2 | Now what you want to do in the privacy of your own home in terms of art is one thing , but if I 'm using public money I really need to be able to justify it . |
| 3 | I think it 's sometimes falsely represented as being academic or being unreal or as not relating to the masses of women 's lives , and it 's out of my own experience I just want to be clear about this , it 's out of my own experience as an incest survivor , as a pornography survivor , my father worked in the porn industry , that I came to revolutionary feminism . |
| 4 | and this Molly she always had to be different |
| 5 | When involved in any kind of search we obviously need to be able to recognise what we are looking for , the goal state . |
| 6 | As a special bonus it also has to be able to merchandise our Fluffy Puffins . |
| 7 | Against launderettes it also has to be said that they do not fit the media image of the perfect housewife . |
| 8 | Stupidly , she had hoped that Silas would invite her to sit at his table , but instead she was led to a small one by a girl she later learned to be Stella 's daughter , Jean . |
| 9 | By the time Tennyson revisited Cauterets , in 1861 , what he thought of as a village he now found to be , in his less poetic moods , ‘ an odious watering-place ’ , and that is a transition you can readily enough trace in the architecture today . |
| 10 | ‘ I only pray that we never pull out of Northern Ireland it really has to be ‘ No Surrender ’ . |
| 11 | The only place I really want to be is my own flat . ’ |
| 12 | Only time would tell now whether it would go without mishap I just had to be patient . |
| 13 | And some of them are good fun pop in their own right they just happen to be done in a foreign language and with different cultural influences . |
| 14 | Even in physics and chemistry they still appeared to be within the grasp of the ‘ practical man ’ — say a civil engineer . |
| 15 | In business it never hurts to be cautious . |
| 16 | Burton was in a hit — and a classy hit — and in the tonnage of reviews he rarely failed to be mentioned , often praised . |
| 17 | Some fathers seemed to have invested hopes in their daughters of the kind we normally expect to be invested in sons : |
| 18 | Because if I do n't escape , if something dreadful happened , I shall still know that the person I was and would have stayed if this had n't happened was not the person I now want to be . |
| 19 | ‘ Yeah , for a while we really tried to be serious , ’ admits Puttnam . |
| 20 | ‘ Yeah , for a while we really tried to be serious , ’ admits Puttnam . |
| 21 | And Robert , who was by now learning the basic rule that if anybody said anything interesting it was probably Muhammad , would ask if by any chance it just happened to be a saying of the Prophet , to which the headmaster would reply , his eyes shining , ‘ That 's it ! |
| 22 | a body corporate ( other than open-ended investment companies ) to persons it reasonably believes to be members or creditors or holders of other investments issued by it ( or another group company ) and it contains only an invitation relating to that investment |
| 23 | Hoare said last night it now expected to be trimming its full year forecast back from the £30m pencilled in so far . |
| 24 | It was about elderly people I just wanted to be properly cared for . |
| 25 | There are things certain things I 'm committed to and to have time off means I still got to be able to do those things . |
| 26 | Once off the island of Majorca she never wanted to be involved with it again . |
| 27 | Then , as now , to play a National Tri-Plate you either had to be very rich or very lucky . |
| 28 | He was one of those whose wisdom ( to recall the terms of Wyatt 's sonnet ) insisted on his maintaining an unchanged obedience to an authority he ultimately felt to be higher than the King 's . |
| 29 | Though Mr Pinter has been a loyal and vociferous supporter of Mr Kinnock he sometimes needs to be cajoled . |
| 30 | And when the person who owed them money was the heir to the throne they still deserved to be treated justly , perhaps even more so . |