Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] to [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , much as I may myself enjoy theatre-going and much as I may cheer when I see a full theatre , I must contain my own enthusiasm if I am to be a cool observer . |
| 2 | ’ — And if I am to be a great Kha-Khan , I ought to be able to recognise when I am being told the truth . ’ |
| 3 | I am to be the new Archdeacon here . ’ |
| 4 | I was to be an avenging angel : Justice , putting right what could not be done through the courts . |
| 5 | I could n't think of a single thing to say , but dimly realized that I now had my role for the evening ; I had done nothing to bring this off ; but I was to be the identifiable face of the campaign . |
| 6 | He had concluded that there was no likelihood of a breach of the peace , largely , it would seem , because the protesters had emphasised that theirs was to be a peaceful event . |
| 7 | I think it is essential to feel that if you are to be a successful athlete . |
| 8 | This is very difficult when you are accustomed to your precise and meaningful jargon , but it is a skill you must acquire if you are to be a successful communicator . |
| 9 | Great is the festival hall where you are to be the only guest . |
| 10 | In any event , and no matter what reforms were contemplated , the issue that was posed by Marius Moutet , pre-war Minister for the Colonies in the Popular Front and shortly to become Minister for Overseas France , was whether or not France really considered herself to be a nation of 100 m. and whether or not she was to be a great power . |
| 11 | She left elementary school at fourteen to take a job filling seed packets for five shillings a week ; later she worked for a draper and subsequently for the Co-op , where she joined the union movement of which she was to be a lifelong member . |
| 12 | She was to be the Honourable Lady Penelope , a British aristocrat who was seeking the protection of an influential Wehrmacht officer after Britain had fallen to the Third Reich . |
| 13 | As the Chairman , Pat Retief in his Annual Chairman 's Review says , ‘ we must continue to be a profitable company if we are to be a good employer in the fullest sense , capable of maintaining and enhancing our portfolio of assets and maximising the development of the Group 's human resources . |
| 14 | They were to be a new form of secondary school — ‘ beacons of excellence ’ — funded mainly by industry , and would concentrate on science and technology . |
| 15 | For the better part of the next forty years they were to be the decisive restraints . |
| 16 | Beneath them were to be the fascist Legions , the militant branch of the League who were divided into active and passive sections of members . |
| 17 | He points out that petrol is now very cheap : if , in real terms , it were to be the equivalent price of a decade ago it would cost over £4 a gallon . |
| 18 | It 's to be the usual passive wanks from now on . |
| 19 | As important as the planned content of teaching — the knowledge , skills and understandings of the National Curriculum — are the messages conveyed to children about their status as learners , about the value of the ideas and understandings they bring to teaching encounters , about the control they have over their own learning , about what it is to be a successful learner . |
| 20 | ‘ We hope this information pack will show how important it is to be a good owner . ’ |
| 21 | The most striking feature of pupil descriptions of what it is to be a good teacher is the great emphasis placed on interpersonal respect . |
| 22 | But because there is some uncertainty about what it is to be a professional librarian and how to respond professionally to many situations , there can be rather tao many difficult decisions to be made ; and the dilemma is not helped by the weakness of the profession , both inherent and externally perceived , on the issue of censorship . |
| 23 | But this is artificially to restrict the sense of what it is to be a rational institution . |
| 24 | If it is to be a fish-only tank , then you can only stock 6″ of fish slowly during the first six months . |
| 25 | They delivered their derogatory cards in turn to NatWest , Midlands , Lloyds and Barclays , and then let their feelings known with specially adapted carols such as : ‘ Jingle tills , jingle tills , jingle all the way/Oh what fun it is to be a High Street bank these days , /Pulling money out , putting receivers in/ Winding business up , with an evil grin . ’ |
| 26 | Being ‘ sinful ’ and ‘ just ’ is not the equivalent of having your cake and eating it , but an existential awareness of what it is to be a human being in a sinful and fallen world . |
| 27 | I say nuclear catastrophe rather than nuclear war also because the episode which ends civilisation is as likely to be an accident as it is to be a monstrous design ; the result of human error or foolishness rather than of deliberate choice , an ultimate irony to mock the rational pretensions of the human race . |
| 28 | It was during this time , moving from one company to another , that Haslam learned the true meaning of what it is to be an adaptable manager . |
| 29 | What it is to be an individual subject fluctuates from ideology to ideology . |
| 30 | And then the dark-greens are by no means united in forming a simple statement of what it is to be an out-and-out green . |