Example sentences of "[that] they [am/are] [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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1 | so that men from a very early age learn that women are , are not important creatures , that they 're not to be respected or erm understood certainly , and that they can be erm , beaten and abused and raped ! |
2 | ‘ I have just received your Portfolio of MS drawings quite safely , ’ wrote the former to the latter in January 1844 ; ‘ I quite agree with you that they are not to be compared in finish with Lear 's , though generally accurate , but then Lear was a Man both for manners in Society & Skill in his Profession not to be easily found or replaced . ’ |
3 | ‘ Attention was called to the Company 's payment of £50 per annum to the Vicar of Stantonbury for managing these schools , seeing that they are about to be handed over to a School Board and it was agreed that the payment be continued as in respect of Sunday School management , but during the pleasure of the Board and to the present incumbent only ’ . |
4 | VILLAGERS in Peru are living in terror that they are about to be haunted by a vampire … from Blackburn . |
5 | Likening God to a shepherd has made many people assume that the point of the metaphor was to emphasize the sheep-like quality of people — that they have no mind of their own , that they are there to be told what to do and treated like sheep . |