Example sentences of "be [conj] [pers pn] [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Du Cann 's fundamental problem has been that he wanted to be seen as cross between a Tory grandee and country squire . |
| 2 | In vain she had remonstrated with the powers that be that she had to be on the air in the Docklands by six , and when she finally pitched up , I had been put back on the phones for another session of ‘ And your address is — can you spell that please ? ’ |
| 3 | She knew now how attractive Miguel could be when he wanted to be , and she knew he could manipulate her feelings . |
| 4 | Sir Ranulph 's wife , Lady Virginia Fiennes , speaking from her remote Exmoor farm , said : ‘ All I know is that they asked to be picked up and the pick-up has come in and got them . |
| 5 | Well , Moscavisi 's argument , and I must say , I agree with him , is that they tended to be denigrated by both groups who might have taken the biggest interest in them . |
| 6 | But consider now a misgiving voiced by Linda Woodbridge and shared by many others : ‘ To me the one unsatisfying feature of the otherwise stimulating transvestite movement is that it had to be transvestite : Renaissance women so tar accepted the masculine rules of the game that they felt they had to look masculine to be ‘ free'' ’ ( Women and the English Renaissance , 145 ) . |
| 7 | Perhaps the most interesting point which arises from McCullough 's article is that it needed to be said . |
| 8 | Typically , Oliver said that after the marriage Gill ought to call herself Mrs Gillian Wyatt-or-Hughes , that is if she wanted to be logical and grammatical and commonsensical and diplomatic and cumbersome . |
| 9 | The survivors were mostly younger sisters , but the striking thing about the teenage girl compositors traced through the CECOS Report , was that they tended to be the eldest children of large families . |
| 10 | And thus it was that she came to be , that February evening , standing at the top of the tower block staircase , leaning against the wall and panting a little from her climb , pausing for a moment and thinking gloomy thoughts about life and death . |
| 11 | And thus it was that she came to be , on that February evening , poised at the very crown of the hill in Kensington Gardens , looking down the hill , with her back to Bayswater and home and trembling with the fear that she had at last grown up . |
| 12 | The irritating thing was that he seemed to be unaware of the beneficial effects of AZT , or the creative potential of AIDS sufferers . |
| 13 | Hagans was staying at a bail hostel at the time where the only restriction was that he had to be in beween 11 a.m. in the evening and 7 a.m. in the morning . |
| 14 | The reason I called James Hunt ‘ Master James ’ , a sobriquet which his sponsors , Texaco , took up and plastered ( without payment ! ) on billboards all over the country , was that he appeared to be exactly that , -a rather well-brought-up young man , properly educated , well-mannered ( when I gave him the name , though not in some of his more flamboyant later incarnations ! ) and thoroughly at home in the establishment circles in which he moved . |
| 15 | The wartime government had promised the troops they would return to ‘ homes fit for heroes to live in ’ , but the sick joke was that you had to be a hero to survive in them . |
| 16 | I think the other thing was that I wanted to be known as a musician rather than some other phenomenon other than a musician and I think that also had an effect on me too . |
| 17 | Thinking about this now , I know that what I was saying in wanting my periods back was that I wanted to be a woman , that I wanted and liked my female body , that my years of confusion and self-dislike were beginning to be over . |
| 18 | THROUGH THIS PLEASANT little chapel in a quiet side street was clearly suitable for conversion to offices — providing the trustees with the financial return they sought — the story was that it had to be demolished because there was nowhere to site the requisite number of car-parking spaces . |
| 19 | All he could say was that it had to be called a great and profound change , and that it had happened , ‘ I have a feeling of being at home when I am with her , as though she gives me my own hearth , a feeling that our lives are interwoven . ’ |
| 20 | A complication was that it had to be reduced in a complicated , controlled manner or the electricity grid throughout Ulster would be burned out and would require a long time to replace after the strike would be over . |
| 21 | The large catch was that it had to be done quickly and with no capital expenditure on new equipment . |
| 22 | According to author Dr Eve Roman , ‘ it made no difference whether a woman worked on a VDU as part of her general day , whether she just used it occasionally or whether her only contact with a VDU was that it happened to be in the same room ’ . |
| 23 | One reason why women in London took up washing was that it tended to be a seasonal trade , the peaks in the availability of the work ( during the London season ) coinciding with the troughs in the male employment cycle in the gas and building trades . |
| 24 | She did n't know where she was and she longed to be back in the cottage where it was safe . |
| 25 | And I thought it was because we seemed to be so much on the same wavelength . |
| 26 | If Protestants were superior , it was because they deserved to be . |
| 27 | Nothing was as it appeared to be with him . |
| 28 | But this was when you moved to was n't it ? |