Example sentences of "[Wh pn] be [adj] to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Identify the local politicians who are likely to be the most sympathetic . |
| 2 | To do this , we would like to recruit people who are willing to be an ACET-link in their church . |
| 3 | Andy Norman and Ron had frequently told me about athletes who were content to be the British number one , to make the team . |
| 4 | I stuck with Molassi 'cause he 's supposed to be a friend of Rodo 's , who 's supposed to be a friend of mine . |
| 5 | But it 's Glenn Hoddle who 's likely to be the focus of attention . |
| 6 | The application must be against someone who is likely to be a party to proceedings but this can extend to cases where even the bringing of these proceedings depends on what is in the documents ( Dunning v United Liverpool Hospitals ' Board of Governors [ 1973 ] 2 All ER 454 ) . |
| 7 | Richard Riordan , who is likely to be the next mayor of Los Angeles , is less charismatic than Mr Perot . |
| 8 | Two of the most important representatives from the innovating group will be the database administrator and the chief analyst who is likely to be the project leader . |
| 9 | However , the right hon. Member for Birmingham , Small Heath ( Mr. Howell ) , who is supposed to be the shadow spokesman on this subject , suggested that Labour would encourage a greater ministerial role in the Sports Council . |
| 10 | Gerald Williams described his former commentary box partner as ‘ an immensely warm person who was proud to be a part of tennis establishment . |
| 11 | He was on his way back from Kensal Green to Paddington , on his way back from discovering in Zohra Labrooy at least one friend of Heather 's who was prepared to be an ally of his . |
| 12 | Rather someone who was prepared to be an accomplice to murder . |
| 13 | In Diana 's young mind her brother 's gravestone with its simple ‘ In Loving Memory ’ epitaph , was a permanent reminder that , as she now recalls : ‘ I was the girl who was supposed to be a boy . ’ |
| 14 | No sooner had Mr Mason joined the group of guests than a servant entered to announce the arrival of an old gipsy woman , who was supposed to be a skilled fortune-teller . |
| 15 | You know where there was that there was the young girl and there was the old wo , oldish woman who was supposed to be a film star or something ? |
| 16 | Then we had erm , the other people next door , the woman erm , who was supposed to be a man-eater , we 'd actually looked round her house and it was ident identical to ours and we looked , we looked all the way round her house and like , she said , oh yeah , all the building 's the same but just in reverse and like , we met all the neighbours , plus the woman opposite had n't seen the flat , |
| 17 | Gruesome flogging cartoons and fantasies of violent reprisal dominated the response , and when the magazine crashed down against the garotting packs and the sentimentalists ( and it was not always clear who was supposed to be the real villain ) both humour and artistic quality were sometimes surrendered as hostages to the gout . |
| 18 | In his panegyric on Majorian , Sidonius Apollinaris records the defeat of Chlodio , who was supposed to be the father of Merovech , at the vicus Helena in Artois . |
| 19 | When I was Defence Secretary and , to my shame , trying to sell tanks to King Idris in Libya , I was pretty sure that he 'd be overthrown in an army coup , and I tried to identify the colonel who was likely to be the leader of the coup . |