Example sentences of "[pers pn] have a [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Romania last year , and even with the worry of redundancy , I have a LOT to be thankful for . |
| 2 | People milled about the room , shaking hands , saying things like : ‘ Hello , I 'm Jane , and I have a right to be alive . ’ |
| 3 | I have a right to be annoyed , but let's keep the lid on . |
| 4 | If someone stupidly backs into my car because they were chatting away to their passenger , I have a right to be cross . |
| 5 | I 've learnt I 'm a person in my own right , not just someone 's wife or mother and I have a right to be here and a right to pursue a career or studies . |
| 6 | ‘ She has a right to be angry . |
| 7 | If you 'd a mind to be a true child to your mother , you could , but if you have n't , you 're best out of it . |
| 8 | The truth was , she had a lot to be grateful for . |
| 9 | Would you consider that either of you have a tendency to be dependent on your own parents : Emotionally Spiritually Financially ? |
| 10 | You have a right to be nervous . |
| 11 | But a few might add : you also belong to the stratum of represented objects , you have a right to be indeterminate . |
| 12 | By 1979 our fleet of cutters had grown to nine vessels and with the old " V " boats , Venturous , Valiant and Vigilant supported by our new dashing Trackers , Alert , Active , Champion , Challenge , Swift and Safeguard we had a force to be reckoned with as at last the big drug smuggling syndicates began to find to their cost . |
| 13 | We have a right to be represented in a women 's magazine that 's fighting for equal representation . |
| 14 | We have a right to be happy . ’ |
| 15 | I want to turn this right round because a couple of people have mentioned guilt and er I I suspect that one of the reasons that women are a bit worried about talking about depression or or campaigning for changes in policy , or more funding , or or whatever , is that for a long time women have been thought of as the weaker sex , more emotional , more nervous , by a , a a male establishment , I 'm talking about past centuries , is n't there a case for saying there 's actually we have a right to be depressed , I mean , obviously it 's normal , ninety three of you get depressed from time to time , the majority of you do n't think you clinically depressive if it is , if it 's normal to be depressed should n't the services to cope with depression , if we need outside help , be there and there 's no shame in it ? |
| 16 | But when you come to something that says one or more closures of elderly persons ' homes in the east of the county , I do n't think it 's quite fair for people saying we have a right to be told on that , but that it 's insufficiently explicit for them to , to respond to consultation , and to bring their particularly cases forward . |
| 17 | We have to communicate : we have a need to be acknowledged by the other . |
| 18 | On that basis , then , we have a reason to be glad that Clive Lloyd adapted his strategy of all-out pace , for had he not done so perhaps we would have seen less of one of the most watchable of all bowlers . |
| 19 | We have a duty to be as clear as we can , and to articulate at all times what we are trying to do , in at least a general sense , and it will help us to ask ( even if we can not always easily answer ) what the result might be in terms of student ability or behaviour . |
| 20 | They have a tendency to be temperamental , but it would be good experience . |
| 21 | They have a right to be themselves . ’ |
| 22 | They have a right to be protected , and after 20 years , a flawed and failed security policy must be radically changed . |
| 23 | It assumes that he has a right to be paid the fees , charges , and disbursements , but provides that he shall not bring an action to enforce that right until certain preliminary requirements have been satisfied . |
| 24 | " Gemma dear , he has a right to be considered and I believe he is a fresh-air man — the Gages and the Bartram-Hyndes have all been brought up to that . |
| 25 | It has a claim to be considered the first court school of the Middle Ages . |
| 26 | First , there is an episode which Thucydides mentions neither in the Fifty Years nor as an ‘ alleged reason ’ in book i ; but it has a claim to be mentioned , because it is clear interference with the colonial empire of Sparta 's ally Corinth . |
| 27 | I should prefer the headland without it but it 's beginning to look as if it had a right to be there . ’ |
| 28 | It had a son to be proud of : Samuel Champlain , founder of Quebec , who was born there around 1569 . |
| 29 | For a time he believed he had a vocation to be a priest himself but he reverted to a previous plan to save sufficient money to go to university . |
| 30 | He was loud and self-confident , but he had a right to be : he had a knack for picking winners . |