Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us hope that the Danes will vote ‘ No ’ in their referendum on June 2 , thus forcing all members to renegotiate the treaty , as many of them are now said to be having second thoughts of their own . |
| 2 | Maybe the ghost is where I am really meant to be . |
| 3 | I am deeply honoured to be invited to this momentous and lavish occasion by my esteemed friends , Martha and George . |
| 4 | I am actually meant to be going to a meeting … ’ |
| 5 | I am obviously considered to be in need of some help . |
| 6 | No I 'm not designed to be pregnant I 'm not . |
| 7 | ‘ I was a big baby — I 'm obviously meant to be this size ’ , ‘ all my family are big ’ , ‘ I 've tried every diet , they just do n't seem to work for me ’ , ‘ I only have to look at a cream cake and I gain 2lbs ( 0.9kg ) ! ’ |
| 8 | I was otherwise condemned to be a Hollywood brat . |
| 9 | You fell in love with an illegitimate girl who carries her father 's name by grace and favour , not by right — never mind that I was not meant to be illegitimate ; that is what I am . |
| 10 | ‘ I know I was n't born to be a size eight or 10 , ’ she says . |
| 11 | If I had left you , then I was n't expected to be … ’ |
| 12 | No , I was simply asked to be General Chairman of the first dinner to raise funds for Aids . |
| 13 | In short , I was tremendously flattered to be offered the job . |
| 14 | When I was sufficiently recovered to be permitted nourishment I felt the most extraordinary desire for a glass of Guinness , which I knew could be obtained without difficulty . |
| 15 | I had developed a fondness for Emily and the aberrations of her strong personality ; I was almost flattered to be given the name of a past friend by an eccentric of Emily Carr 's stature . |
| 16 | And hammered on the door so one of the teache and it was the class where I was too happened to be by the door there . |
| 17 | I was then promoted to be a Deputy Chief Officer and shortly afterwards became a Chief Officer of the department with over 500 staff providing not just legal and administrative services , but purchasing , management services and estate management as well . |
| 18 | It has taken several years of animated discussions among the members and their respective lawyers to arrive at these terms and conditions , which are also intended to be in line with the code of conduct adopted last year by the European federation of art dealers , FIDOAO ( Federation Internationale des Diffuseurs d'Oeuvres d'Art Originales ) . |
| 19 | deodorant , use fresh leaves in the bath water , or a decoction of the roots , which are also said to be effective in removing freckles |
| 20 | This same point about the divisibility of roles which are ordinarily assumed to be interchangeable is further exemplified by my second example which is another piece of classic ethnography . |
| 21 | The activity posited by Brentano , secondly , is common not only to seeing and other perception , thinking in the sense of deliberating or judging , and also remembering , intending , and deciding , all of which are ordinarily thought to be in different ways active , but also pain and other sensations , dreaming , experiencing an emotion , and being subject to a mood , all of which are thought to be in different ways passive . |
| 22 | On Twelfth Night wassailers hang toasted bread on their most productive apple tree to attract the robins which are traditionally held to be good spirits . |
| 23 | Most SMP vendors believe an efficient and scalable SMP version of Windows NT wo n't be around until the second or third release , which are reportedly scheduled to be rolled-out mid 1993 . |
| 24 | Variants of binary variables ( which are implicitly assumed to be discrete ) are most easily handled as percentages ; table 5.1 for example lists zero realizations of ( h ) as a percentage of the total number of occurrences of both variants . |
| 25 | By contrast , a scientist who produces results which are later found to be false runs the risk of losing respectability amongst his peers , advancement from his employers and future support from funding institutions . |
| 26 | Not surprisingly , different viewpoints have emerged over the range of activities which can be justified under the name of academic freedom , over the kinds of threat which are most felt to be present , over the circumstances in which appeal can be made to academic freedom , and over the justifications which academics employ to claim a right to ‘ academic freedom ’ . |
| 27 | Also , these studies did not take into account HDL levels , which are well known to be inversely related to serum triglyceride concentrations ( Hulley et al , 1980 ) . |
| 28 | It has to provide the financial resources for at least a minimum number of services — defence , roads , education , income support , etc. — which are generally deemed to be necessary for the survival of any modern society . |
| 29 | The first difficulty is the scale of the reforms , which are generally agreed to be the most wide ranging and fundamental since the inception of the NHS in 1948 . |
| 30 | Articles are research reports whose conclusions are of general interest and which are sufficiently rounded to be a substantial advance in understanding , They should not have more than 3,000 words ow text ( not including figure legends ) or more than six display items and should not occupy more than five pages of Nature . |