Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] be [vb pp] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As soon as my mother saw the train on its way , we took the renowned Edinburgh cable car to a photographer at Piershill to have my very first picture taken , which was a shouted instruction as my father disappeared into the darkness of a Princes Street tunnel and the acrid smoke of what I was told to be a " Puffing Billy " . |
| 32 | I 've just asked Kurt whether the heroin rumours are true — to which he 's laughed , said ‘ No ! ’ and made me feel his arms for any tell-tale scars or holes , though obviously shooting up is n't the only way to take smack and to be honest I 'm not sure I knew what I was meant to be looking for , but still , it 's an impressive gesture at the very least — when Anton walks in with a woman I recognise as Susan Silver , manager of Soundgarden . |
| 33 | But ‘ at some point in the future ’ , she wants to become again what she is trained to be — a general paediatrician , work that would inevitably involve dealing with child abuse . |
| 34 | Seemingly unrestrained by their director , his principals , Juliette Binoche and Jeremy Irons , indulge in a perfect orgy of , in actor-speak , ‘ playing the result ’ : their first meeting , before they are even introduced , is a wild farrago of fish-like glances , tortured swallowing and interminable silences , and Malle follows suit , equipping his female lead with a get-up — black leather , gloves , fags , sunglasses , four-inch heels and an Eton crop to make a Brazilian transvestite blink , never mind a research assistant at Sotheby 's , which is what she is meant to be . |
| 35 | Try and arrange the transfer to coincide with your pay day , so that you know the money has been ‘ committed ’ and that what you are left with is , hopefully , yours to spend as you wish . |
| 36 | That is what you 're born to be . ’ |
| 37 | The next questionnaire is designed to help you look at your work and get clear in your head what you 're meant to be doing and how . |
| 38 | You know I said to her I said it 's not what you 're used to is it ? |
| 39 | And I have spent all morning saying it can not possibly be true , that you devote all your time to your aunt , that you have scarcely left the house in over a month and all the time you were doing just what you were rumoured to be doing ! |
| 40 | ‘ I think , ’ Doyle murmured , ‘ that you have forgotten what you were meant to be doing . ’ |
| 41 | Whilst poor Millie , far from playing cello concertos at the Festival Hall , or leading archaeological expeditions to Asia Minor , or whatever she was expected to be doing by this time , is … |
| 42 | What we are faced with is a tiny facet of the complexities involved in Black women facing up to their oppression in a predominantly racist society . |
| 43 | What we are presented with is a range , from almost completely ‘ dependent ’ work at one end ( exaggerated by Adorno , neglected by Benjamin ) , to relics of aura tic art and new types of critical practice at the other ( the effectiveness and interrelationships of the two a matter of dispute ) . |
| 44 | The implications of what we are presented with are left more dramatically open , challenging more directly the containment implied by the morality tradition . |
| 45 | What we are left with is a disagreeable story tinged with Joe Orton 's misogyny and urge to puncture the frail facade of petit bourgeois respectability . |
| 46 | What we 're left with is four young men from a Kent dormitory town whose ‘ Congratulations ’ single , a cynical but groovy off-colour shuffle , is one of the treats of the spring . |
| 47 | Delighted he 's being given the O.K. , unsure what we 're meant to be doing now , and HUNGRY ! |
| 48 | Is that what we 're meant to be doing this term , tutorials ? |
| 49 | No , too right ! deciding what we 're meant to be having . |
| 50 | What we were faced with was an enormous puzzle — a cryptic crossword with the clues in Latin , unnumbered , and not much of a grid for guide . |
| 51 | Rather , organizational goals are what they are perceived to be by officials who have been socialized into the organizational ‘ way of life ’ and who strive in a highly co-ordinate fashion to bring about collectively their realization . |
| 52 | Different kinds of drills and what they are used for are described in detail in chapters 5–8 . |
| 53 | When made with the addition of stock they Jose all character and cease to be what they were intended to be . |
| 54 | Neither is an overexcited horse likely to win a showjumping contest , because at every jump he is likely to get more and more excited and to concentrate less and less on what he is meant to be doing . |
| 55 | He could fish with Mr Burkett — they had caught a fine pike and two trout on the lazy trawl up-lake — he could let go all those minaretted plans , those fantastical ambitions , and be what he was born to be , a jovial , lazy , loved and loving man , getting by . |
| 56 | Despite his metrical conservatism ( his strenuous handling of the pentameter is surely surprising and admirable ) and his unfashionable addiction to the grand manner and the high style , Allen Tate was certainly a modernist ; that is what he was thought to be , and it is how he conceived of himself . |
| 57 | It 's like the guys are all moaning , it 's a bloody caring society or whatever it 's meant to be . |
| 58 | He 'd mention something about when Bond was in the sewer or whatever it was meant to be , load of rubbish really . |
| 59 | Having found that Vendale 's identity is not what it is believed to be , he tries to use this discovery , but is thwarted by Bintrey . |
| 60 | Their liability will not be based on what they have actually paid for their house but what it is deemed to be worth without discount . |