Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say they just want someone to be accountable for the death of their daughter . |
| 2 | We support and accept the good sense of increasing sentences for offences that are worse than taking and driving away and of extending the deterrent of disqualification where personal injury and damage occurs , but it is quite another thing for someone to be guilty of additional offences that he does not commit , to which he is not a party and which he might not have foreseen as the likely consequences of his taking and driving away . |
| 3 | Women doing long sentences are obviously going to try and find someone to be close to . |
| 4 | Also , you may want someone to be able to see base figures and a final result , but not the devious manipulations you have performed on the route twixt the two . |
| 5 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
| 6 | Someone to be scared of . |
| 7 | Now , ( iii ) for someone to be entitled to say that something is the case he must have some basis for what he says . |
| 8 | WILD SCANDINAVIAN seeks someone to be wild with ! |
| 9 | Now there is nothing wrong with this argument as it stands , but it is weak ; it assumes that there are other minds than our own , and argues only that we may be mistaken about their states , thinking someone to be happy when she is really sad , etc . |
| 10 | THERE 'S plenty to be thankful for in December , not least your ruler , Mercury , moving directly on the 1st . |
| 11 | So she has plenty to be pleased about — in addition to being the beautiful butt of the TV men 's admiring jokes . |
| 12 | McEniff himself has plenty to be confident about . |
| 13 | THEY may be cheap , but Europe 's discount food stores have plenty to be cheerful about . |
| 14 | They have plenty to be angry about . |
| 15 | No ca n't be bothered to do owt to be honest . |
| 16 | ‘ I want everything to be right , ’ Kelly told her mum , between wracking coughs . |
| 17 | You ca n't feel benevolent and sympathetic , you ca n't just want everything to be nice , as if Jack were a child , and as if I were a child . |
| 18 | ‘ You want everything to be perfect , Julia . |
| 19 | No doubt there will be an extensive scrutiny from those who expect everything to be perfect but it passes pretty well from my point of view . |
| 20 | Although the waiting had been difficult , she had wanted everything to be perfect — and she had thought Tony had understood . |
| 21 | I like everything to be clean — not particularly tidy-I like the washing and ironing to be nice — nice and clean and nicely ironed . |
| 22 | He just wanted everything to be clear , like in a court of law . |
| 23 | Swod paused , as though expecting everything to be clear now to the chief inspector . |
| 24 | I suppose it 's something to be grateful for that I can do anything useful for you , so stop worrying . |
| 25 | ‘ Something to be grateful for . ’ |
| 26 | Was n't that something to be grateful for ? |
| 27 | Of course , it is my belief about what is right or what is wrong ; if I believe something to be right , I am prepared to do it , whilst if I believe it to be wrong I am not . |
| 28 | That 's something to be sure of , I do n't think I was sure . |
| 29 | Twenty one say no and that 's something to be sure of as well . |
| 30 | He clarifies the difference by comparing the humanistic pastoral counsellor 's attitude to suffering as ‘ something to be relieved ’ , with the spiritual director 's ‘ which might at least suggest the counterclaim that it was rather something to be interpreted and creatively redeemed ’ . |