Example sentences of "we [be] [vb pp] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are called to be righteous members of His kingdom , looking to our heavenly King , and being ready to proclaim the Good News by word and deed . |
| 2 | We are invited to be open to the choices each of them represents . |
| 3 | As early as September 1953 Eisenhower was to be found ruminating , " Abroad we and our intentions are suspect because we are known to be big and wealthy , and believed to be impulsive and truculent . " |
| 4 | We are a , an innocent man until we are shown to be guilty . |
| 5 | In Eliot 's poem it is ‘ While the melodious fountain falls ’ that love is made , but we are forced to be conscious of an artifice ‘ ( Carved by the cunning Bolognese ) ’ which suggests that the apparently primitive fertility ritual where ‘ The Adepts twine beneath the trees/ The sacrificial exercise ’ has become a decadent pleasure , rather than a genuine ritual . |
| 6 | Being keen-sighted created , we are designed to be alert during the day and to sleep through the dark hours . |
| 7 | A friend once remarked : ‘ We are expected to be living sacrifices , but the problem is we keep crawling off the altar . ’ |
| 8 | And get it into your head , Aunt Ellen , we 're engaged to be married . |
| 9 | The market is the mechanism through which we 're forced to be competitive . |
| 10 | We were taught to be thrifty . |
| 11 | We were taught to be polite and pleasant . ’ |
| 12 | But then , as RSPB members we were bound to be biased ! |
| 13 | well we were considered to be fortunate that we did n't , we only had a small percentage that we had a problem with |
| 14 | On the one hand , we were encouraged to be young ladies , polite , modest , and considerate towards others , especially those who belonged to the lower social orders . |
| 15 | But , wherever we went , whatever we did , we were accompanied by the innate , subconscious awareness that we were expected to be grateful . |