Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us hope that the Danes will vote ‘ No ’ in their referendum on June 2 , thus forcing all members to renegotiate the treaty , as many of them are now said to be having second thoughts of their own . |
| 2 | Maybe the ghost is where I am really meant to be . |
| 3 | I am deeply honoured to be invited to this momentous and lavish occasion by my esteemed friends , Martha and George . |
| 4 | I am actually meant to be going to a meeting … ’ |
| 5 | I am obviously considered to be in need of some help . |
| 6 | ‘ I was a big baby — I 'm obviously meant to be this size ’ , ‘ all my family are big ’ , ‘ I 've tried every diet , they just do n't seem to work for me ’ , ‘ I only have to look at a cream cake and I gain 2lbs ( 0.9kg ) ! ’ |
| 7 | I was otherwise condemned to be a Hollywood brat . |
| 8 | No , I was simply asked to be General Chairman of the first dinner to raise funds for Aids . |
| 9 | In short , I was tremendously flattered to be offered the job . |
| 10 | When I was sufficiently recovered to be permitted nourishment I felt the most extraordinary desire for a glass of Guinness , which I knew could be obtained without difficulty . |
| 11 | I had developed a fondness for Emily and the aberrations of her strong personality ; I was almost flattered to be given the name of a past friend by an eccentric of Emily Carr 's stature . |
| 12 | And hammered on the door so one of the teache and it was the class where I was too happened to be by the door there . |
| 13 | I was then promoted to be a Deputy Chief Officer and shortly afterwards became a Chief Officer of the department with over 500 staff providing not just legal and administrative services , but purchasing , management services and estate management as well . |
| 14 | What is different about a vocational course is that you are also expected to be creative and to produce new ideas , novel applications and improved methods of doing things . |
| 15 | Even if you have not lived together for several years , from a national insurance point of view you are still considered to be married . |
| 16 | She 's tonight said to be critical but stable . |
| 17 | It 's for all these reasons that Madonna has been accused of setting back the women 's movement 30 years , but she 's never claimed to be speaking for the cause . |
| 18 | I find her difficult to handle and my soundings are that she is deeply unpopular in Fleet St. She is also said to be extremely bitter about the way she has been treated and evidently stands to make millions from various lawsuits . |
| 19 | Robinson paid tribute to Mrs Ash 's excellent housekeeping , and lamented that she had never become the Mother she was ideally suited to be . |
| 20 | Mrs Kemp , 52 , suffered several fractures and is still being treated in Doncaster where she was yesterday said to be ‘ fine . ’ |
| 21 | We are also taught to be caring and nurturing parents . |
| 22 | We are greatly honoured to be allowed to participate in this celebration . |
| 23 | Versatility is all very well , but we are now expected to be accountants , personnel managers and lawyers as well as dermatologists , psychiatrists , obstetricians and general physicians . |
| 24 | The last sentence of this book reads : ‘ We are truly meant to be here . ’ |
| 25 | And yet we are shocked — we are certainly meant to be — by ‘ daring ’ contemporary operas . |
| 26 | ‘ James , I wo n't tell you again — this is not our country , we are merely permitted to be here by its citizens . |
| 27 | ‘ We 're both meant to be seekers after truth . |
| 28 | Our landlady , a Mrs Brown , seemed pleasant and reasonable , and we were still contented to be in Bedford , although we had discovered that there was one disadvantage — the Americans . |
| 29 | We must ensure that the security forces are the real defenders of human rights and freedom from fear and violence , and that they are clearly seen to be so . |
| 30 | They are even admitted to be absurd by Tertullian — ‘ Credo quia absurdum ’ — and believed in for that very reason ; but this is an argument which does not enable us to distinguish which absurd propositions we are to believe Freud thought . |