Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [be] [vb pp] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I 'm bound to be recognised . |
| 2 | The magistrate did not consider a barrack changing-room to be a proper address , and so I was ordered to be confined in a bail hostel in Camden Town while social reports were completed . |
| 3 | The oblong block markers are n't centrally positioned either ; perhaps they 're meant to be offset as well … |
| 4 | He said and I do n't think that they were meant to be perhaps they were meant to be in order of importance . |
| 5 | It looked tiny , no more than an emergency shelter , which of course was all it was intended to be . |
| 6 | Oh yes anything that happened down the glen or way was heard that from the pack man so it was bound to be true . |
| 7 | So it was designed to be attractive to look at , but with curves , ovals and an absence of straight lines to make it difficult to swim in . |
| 8 | The crêche may be located some distance away from where you will be working , and some have restrictions as to how far away you are allowed to be from your child in case you need to be contacted . |
| 9 | But elsewhere she is seen to be ‘ black ’ in more than one sense . |
| 10 | Nevertheless they were held to be in contempt but , the strike having collapsed , no penalty was imposed . |
| 11 | He knows better than that , and anyway he is rumoured to be paying the Italian genius a lot of money for his one-box design vision that forms part of BMW 's long-rumoured MPV programme . |
| 12 | It is not made clear whether or not it is intended to be exhaustive . |
| 13 | Weapon is given a wide definition under section 2 of the Canadian Criminal Code and includes ‘ anything that is designed to be used as a weapon or anything that a person uses or intends to use as a weapon , whether or not it is designed to be used as a weapon . ’ |
| 14 | Earlier this summer he similarly told the Observer 's Mark Frankland ‘ The more I am forced to be active in politics , the more I enjoy doing theatre . ’ |
| 15 | Usually it is assumed to be FALSE . |
| 16 | Technically he was meant to be in bed . |
| 17 | The United States thus finds itself in a no-win situation : the more it is seen to be intervening against him , the more it is likely to reinforce his position . |
| 18 | ‘ When we started off it was meant to be a serious underground label and we thought we 'd just do a couple of thousand . |
| 19 | That 's correct sir , P C was behind the shield like he was told to be . |
| 20 | It is no good the Minister , whenever he is found to be wanting and to be wrong , starting to hurl abuse across the Chamber or making allegations that have absolutely no substance . |
| 21 | I was poorly , I said — and now I 'm meant to be lying down in my room . |
| 22 | Now they were assumed to be — well , gay , but not in the sense he acknowledged . |
| 23 | However , hags could assume many appearances ; often they were thought to be of enormous proportions , such as the giantess Grendel of Scandinavian legend , or the Blue Hag of the Highlands in Scotland , whose grey-blue cape was the swirling mist of the glens . |
| 24 | Now it is set to be the unofficial mascot of staff at Harper and Harper furniture , Northgate , who have taken the bird to a taxidermist to be stuffed . |
| 25 | Now he was reported to be at the Mamounia in order to work on a book entitled The Mighty and the Meek . |
| 26 | Well I 'm meant to be funny darling . |
| 27 | Well she 's meant to be a real bitch anyway . |
| 28 | I think the only drawback in that was , it 's been discuss , that , if you are dealing with money here you are expected to be , but I ca n't see that 'll make any difference because we 're not tied to National cost at the bazaar are we ? |
| 29 | well we were considered to be fortunate that we did n't , we only had a small percentage that we had a problem with |
| 30 | Well it 's bound to be damp . |