Example sentences of "he [verb] been [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It followed that no individual should boast of his role ‘ but be thankful that he has been permitted to be useful ’ . |
| 2 | He despised the ease with which he could now engage in a life beyond the mightiest exertions of the man he had been born to be . |
| 3 | A few months before , when she was much younger , she would have screeched this aloud and brought the breakfast table to an uproar , but now she smiled while the coldness took careful and eternal appreciation of the fact that he had been flattered to be asked . |
| 4 | On Oct. 22 , 1990 , he had been ordered to be detained for 60 days in a military camp for sending a letter to Menem warning him that unrest in the army could provoke a " military rebellion " . |
| 5 | Even without his well , he proved the reliable crowd-puller and money-spinner he had been bought to be , although neither records nor general report substantiate the enormous revenues and popularity sometimes claimed for him . |
| 6 | He had been told to be exact . |
| 7 | He had been expected to be out of the game for at least two months after suffering concussion and a broken eye socket from a punch , but has made a remarkable recovery . |
| 8 | ‘ Seems he 's been chosen to be the voice of Interplanetary Parliament here on Earth . |