Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I read everything I could find about France ( since France was my dream country , where I felt I 'd been meant to be born and grow up … ) and developed a particular passion for the French Revolution , reading all the Scarlet Pimpernel books , the story of the first Madame Tussaud , forced to model the guillotined heads , and everything that I could find that would bring it all to life . |
| 2 | Why could n't I have been born to be successful and brainy ? |
| 3 | I 've been trying to be a footballer , and that is n't me . |
| 4 | ‘ The one consolation is that my husband Samuel and David and I have been invited to be in the audience when Go For It is filmed . |
| 5 | ‘ Because I have been born in England , I have been taught to be independent , original and to think for myself . |
| 6 | Japan remains tied to the Western camp partly because the relationship has become integral to her economy and politics over forty years ' association , and partly because it appears to offer the best defence against Soviet aggression and encroachment — a long-standing fear — in Northeast Asia , and the best hope of Japan 's integrity overall in a world where she has been proved to be economically and militarily vulnerable . |
| 7 | ‘ You were afraid of the light because you 'd been taught to be afraid of it , ’ said Rachaela . |
| 8 | She 'd been flattered to be asked , of course . |
| 9 | If she 'd been pretending to be busy before , she really was busy now . |
| 10 | She 'd been wanting to be my best friend for ages . |
| 11 | She 'd been required to be beautiful and talented and independent , but she had n't wanted to be any of those things . |
| 12 | He 'd travelled half round the world , seen and done things she could only guess at , while she 'd never been further than Kingswood when she 'd been taken to be viewed as apprentice to a nailmaker . |
| 13 | For white middleclass males , however , pride and dignity has little resonance , when all your life you 've been trained to be aspirational and competitive . |
| 14 | When she was eighteen and had actually been accepted at Chelsea Art School , she had been determined to be somebody wonderful , somebody famous , like Amelia Earhart or Margaret Mead . |
| 15 | There was astonishment also at what Sylvie Guillem could do with her legs , and excited suspense was also manifested over the question of whether Inès de la Fressange was coming or whether she had been deemed to be too much associated with Chanel and had therefore , in spite of being a close personal friend of Christian 's , been unceremoniously dumped . |
| 16 | The world is in turmoil with civil strife and stress ; as Christ 's followers , we have been called to be peacemakers , and so we pray for peace in God 's world . |
| 17 | We have been thought to be ‘ ignorant of the nature of spirits ’ , he says , because we have no ‘ idea ’ of spirit . |
| 18 | Yet we have been programmed to be curious , to question , to probe and to seek to solve riddles . |
| 19 | Yes there are far too many overlapping institutions that self regulation has n't worked , it ha has no adequate on the annualt we welcomed 21 effective against fraud by replacing it by an independent statutory statutory based regulator which has the power to strike and strike hard rather than everything er by the the the plethora of regulations we now deal with in the financial er in the financial sector and in the respect of what 's proposed today , you ca n't rely er on auditors to be the effective police force that they 've been required to be by these er regulations . |
| 20 | Previously they had been assumed to be something that belonged to the Royal College of Art , the Slade School , the Royal Ballet School , and so on . |
| 21 | They were now the self-confident , responsible young ladies they had been trained to be by both the school and their own families . |
| 22 | Modules will only follow a process model if they have been defined to be of that particular model subtype via the MODULE-SUB-TYPE-IS keyword in the module header . |
| 23 | The trick will be to distil these desirable attributes from the new arrangements and to discard the harmful elements ; once they have been shown to be so . |
| 24 | The Government 's intention was that these funds would be a way of helping with one-off exceptional circumstances affecting only a small minority of students , but the reality is that once again they have been shown to be completely wrong . |
| 25 | Although histamine stimulates the incorporation of H + , K + -ATPase rich cytoplasmic tubulovesicles into the apical membrane in parietal cells , it is unclear whether a similar phenomenon occurred in HGT-1 cells as they have been shown to be devoid of secretory organelles . |
| 26 | They say they have been waiting to be moved from the ‘ temporary accommodation ’ ever since . |
| 27 | They say they have been waiting to be moved from the ‘ temporary accommodation ’ ever since . |
| 28 | They have been designed to be relevant to both small and large organisations in the public and private sectors , and take into account the variations that there will inevitably be in organisations ' approaches to developing their people . |
| 29 | They have been encouraged to be suspicious of whatever may be ‘ unsound ’ ( a favourite Oxbridge concept ) ; they owe a sentimental and intellectual allegiance to the same few places ; barely one of them has a ‘ regional ’ accent . |
| 30 | Subsequently , they have been reported to be as effective as corticosteroids in treating patients with active Crohn 's disease , and one controlled , but non-randomised trial suggested that elemental diet was actually superior to corticosteroid treatment . |