Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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1 | I read everything I could find about France ( since France was my dream country , where I felt I 'd been meant to be born and grow up … ) and developed a particular passion for the French Revolution , reading all the Scarlet Pimpernel books , the story of the first Madame Tussaud , forced to model the guillotined heads , and everything that I could find that would bring it all to life . |
2 | And it would be helpful for councillor I would say that I know that there are a third of our members and from the program committees for capital expenditure which I suspect is going to be to excess of the five hundred thousand pounds per year which we actually have . |
3 | We are restricted somewhat by time , because I want to get everybody back in the main auditorium to listen to what I know is going to be a fantastic lecture by Professor Don , er from Baltimore , which I would certainly recommend that everybody go and see . |
4 | Why could n't I have been born to be successful and brainy ? |
5 | I thought I 'd better do all my jobs which I thought was going to be spread across the d the day . |
6 | Anyway we 're going to go for trap two , Smoky Amber here , now she 's a bitch that is really , I think 's going to be something special over a longer trip , erm you know a longer distance , but she is only a March eighty nine so she 's not two yet . |
7 | The point 's that I think is trying to be made is that there are a lot of people here tonight who do wish to express an opinion and that opinion is not necessarily formulated in question form . |
8 | I think white actually is the best colour because it Yeah , anything else I think is going to be . |
9 | A part of that obviously I think is going to be that there was an expected higher level of productivity than we 've actually achieved , cos you know in January I think in , in Christine 's area for example , to start off with I mean er er er productivity plummeted erm and it 's now , and she changed the system and , and one or two other things . |
10 | The , the last one that I bought was going to be easy , but oh . |
11 | I stayed in the bottom class , but noticed the girl that I had been talking to was in another class . |
12 | I 've been trying to be a footballer , and that is n't me . |
13 | ‘ The one consolation is that my husband Samuel and David and I have been invited to be in the audience when Go For It is filmed . |
14 | ‘ Because I have been born in England , I have been taught to be independent , original and to think for myself . |
15 | This seems to me to illustrate what I would call the ‘ Breakthrough Phenomenon ’ : the sudden discovery that something which has been assumed to be out of the question is not out of the question at all . |
16 | These strains are prone to wasting away , which has been assumed to be due to constitutional weakness . |
17 | This will take the form of Preliminary Training ; a core part in the new Module 20 which has been expanded to last one and a half days followed by a written assessment with a pass mark of 75% ; and Specialist Training — both on and off the job which has been tailored to be appropriate to the area that the prospective RPS will be working in . |
18 | And ma'am , just on a brief note of clarification , the report which has been referred to was a report prepared by the County Planning Officer , endorsed and I think was prepared in his name and was presented t to a working party of Greater York authorities . |
19 | So the results of this trial will be of enormous benefit to mothers as in future they will be offered a treatment which has been shown to be effective . |
20 | Serum triglyceride levels are generally unaltered in both short- and long-term studies ( Dodson et al , 1985 ) , providing unrefined carbohydrate is used , as opposed to refined carbohydrate which has been shown to be hypertriglyceridaemic in some studies ( Reaven , 1980 ) . |
21 | The objective is simple — to ensure that others learn from the experience of the identified ‘ best ’ and raise their own level of performance to that which has been shown to be attainable . |
22 | The movement to re-examine curriculum and methodology , which has been shown to be characteristic of teachers and educationists since the end of the Second World War , may take a variety of different forms , and become associated with a number of different fashions and bandwagons , but it is unlikely to come to a halt . |
23 | RAP30 has been reported to contain a sequence homologous to region 1b and 2 of σ factors of bacteria , which has been shown to be a binding site for the core component of E.coli RNA polymerase and possibly for mammalian RNA polymerase II ( 19,40 ) . |
24 | There is a famous sequence of " Going over the top " in the First World War which has been shown to be a staged sequence . |
25 | One of the two patients was of British origin without any known Sephardic or central European ancestry , which has been reported to be associated with the mutation at codon 200 . |
26 | There is a further indication that this is the right solution ; one of the few archaeological finds to have come from the battlefield at Vézeronce is a fine helmet , which has been thought to be of Ostrogothic workmanship . |
27 | Technology is ‘ old-style ’ Philips 16 bit , the system that preceded the current and mor fashionable Bitstream process , but which has been found to be easier to ‘ tweak ’ for a desired effect . |
28 | It is the effort and pressure which the bowel-wall muscle has to exert in propelling onward the firm faeces produced by a Western diet ( rather than the soft and voluminous matter produced by fibre-rich diets ) which has been found to be the cause of this illness . |
29 | Woolworth 's are appealing to shoppers to return a make of children 's sandal which has been found to be faulty . |
30 | It was decided that Joan should telephone Alexander Atkins at a number which he had given to Derek and which had been discovered to be that of the police station at Dysart . |