Example sentences of "[pron] 's [adj] to [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Ros was just saying I mean sh on that , on that Friday she 's due to be in work on that Friday night and it comes on a day she 'll paid time off aspect . |
| 2 | ‘ What do you mean by sneaking my cousin off to the mainland when she 's supposed to be at my place , studying ? |
| 3 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 4 | Bit embarrassing , really , she 's supposed to be on probation but her probation officer sort of lost her about a year ago . ’ |
| 5 | And , the more er , developed countries you get , the less trade there 's likely to be towards developing countries , who actually become more industrialized then the market leaders generally become more . |
| 6 | yeah , so I think it 's better to be on the safe side than er , than rush it |
| 7 | It 's strange to be in Strathspeld , to be in the house and not have seen Mr and Mrs Gould . |
| 8 | She says do not worry , but it 's wiser to be on the safe side . |
| 9 | Yes , it 's sad to be on the point of reaching the summit . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It 's nice to be on friendly terms . |
| 11 | It 's nice to be with other people to fight the same frustrations . |
| 12 | Nothing much grows in winter , but it 's nice to be in the garden . |
| 13 | It 's nice to be among other mothers . |
| 14 | ‘ She 's always welcome here , as you know , ’ George earnestly told his wife , ‘ but it 's grand to be on our own . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Gloves , cane and collar astonish these artists in shirt-sleeves — they have always looked on them as the insignia of feeble-mindedness … still , it 's great to be in the thick of the dog-fights of great art . ’ |
| 16 | We would n't have been able to skate in Britain , so it 's great to be in Milton Keynes . |
| 17 | I think it 's safer to be on the bottom . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's safer to be in the centre , ’ he said . |
| 19 | " It 's humiliating to be worth more dead than alive . " |
| 20 | And , of course , you and Mr Sheldrake are so close to each other that it 's ridiculous to be in opposition . |
| 21 | I would therefore think it 's appropriate to be in this sort of format er so that if any other issues other than questions of in migration appear to be relevant to this situation , then it can be taken on the move . |
| 22 | It 's really ironic that suddenly people from The Independent are really into it because it 's safe to be behind something that 's been and gone and proved its worth . |
| 23 | To prefer solitude with a book or a record-player is after all to have a case to answer — ‘ It 's wrong to be by yourself ’ — though not , as some would say , an unanswerable case . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's wrong to be by yourself ’ is an American song , after all , and it is not on the whole a British sentiment . |
| 25 | But marriage , well , after all it 's supposed to be for life , is n't it ? ’ |
| 26 | Well it 's supposed to be on the mat but er you 've moved it . |
| 27 | That 's interesting , there 's a little there 's a little thing in either end of this microphone er I wonder which erm perhaps it 's supposed to be on the directional ? |
| 28 | Oh , that flowerpot , well it 's no good putting it under that one , it 's supposed to be under the one with the camellia in it … |
| 29 | It 's supposed to be in there , and th , that 'll keep the pasta apart . |
| 30 | The cafe idea was more down-to-earth , which is what the song 's all about — it 's supposed to be against arrogance and affluence and snobbery . ’ |