Example sentences of "she [be] [verb] [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she 's determined not to be held back by her condition . |
| 2 | She 's not all the Iron Lady she 's cracked up to be . |
| 3 | If she is determined not to be interviewed she could even write back and say quite clearly ‘ keep away ’ , in which case no earnest explanation by the interviewer is possible . |
| 4 | Although Constance was proud to be seen with Nicky and loved it when he took her out , she was determined not to be taken for granted . |
| 5 | She was determined not to be bludgeoned into submission by lack of money and a system that seemed not to care for mothers and children . |
| 6 | She knew it was the beginning of the humiliation that would be heaped upon her , and she was determined not to be broken by it . |
| 7 | Even though her boyfriend at the time was against this , she was determined not to be persuaded to have another baby . |
| 8 | Roxie stayed silent as if she was determined not to be cozened , but she shifted uneasily in her chair . |
| 9 | But she was determined not to be beaten . |
| 10 | But she was relied on to be correct , so no-one disturbed her as she worked , her arthritic hands holding a stubby pencil , her long , old-fashioned mask covering her mouth as she murmured to herself . |
| 11 | One observer at Yeovil said : ‘ Despite Mrs Ashdown 's reluctance to get involved , whenever the opinion polls were announced she was far more demonstrative than she was made out to be . |
| 12 | ‘ It made me so angry to see her stepchildren cast as innocents while she was made out to be a dragon . ’ |
| 13 | They may have been glad , since she was turning out to be hard to amuse , that she slept deeply in the early afternoons . |