Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [noun sg] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point is not that everyone needs property to be free ; some people have little or no property but are not necessarily any the less free as a result . |
| 2 | I do n't want to be a society lady any more , but I 'm not quite sure whether I want journalism to be my life 's work . |
| 3 | ‘ I want society to be changed , so that such an affront to civilized behaviour will no longer be tolerated ! ’ |
| 4 | We can go easy on him with the questions , but I want Nate to be impressed . |
| 5 | I want all this to be in the open , to be accepted , I want truth to be told . |
| 6 | I want justice to be done . |
| 7 | Now I am never ashamed of anything , for I consider shame to be a bourgeois and petty emotion , but this was the one occasion when I felt ashamed of myself , and I have never forgotten how sad it made me to have denied my principles for the sake of friendship and love — or what I imagined to be love . |
| 8 | I find tea to be the best and most satisfying bush drink that can be taken … ’ |
| 9 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |
| 10 | Later , I had cause to be grateful for that clause . |
| 11 | If I appear , let us say , disenchanted , it is because I have reason to be . |
| 12 | Naturally , I wanted Mum to be at the first night , and Dad too . |
| 13 | I wanted mother to be sitting waiting for me with cakes in the oven and ready to listen to my tales of school . |
| 14 | For Kelsen , the dynamic principle is characteristic of legal positivism which understands law to be in some sense a product of human acts and decisions rather than a deduction from timeless and immutable principles . |
| 15 | But it has also led to assumptions which cause religion to be ignored , doubted and re-interpreted . |
| 16 | Problems with pistons and piston rings are usually accompanied by high crankcase pressures which cause oil to be blown out of the front and rear crankshaft seals and the dipstick tube and breather pipes . |
| 17 | The University has signed the SCOTCATAgreement which allows credit to be given towards academic awards to appropriate assessed learning . |
| 18 | Member States may assume the validity of such extended powers through the implied powers doctrine , which allows competency to be implied from the express purposes of an organisation in order that it may function effectively . |
| 19 | This suspended level is the feature which allows dilution to be carried out in D without affecting t . |
| 20 | There are two chief reasons for this : first , the control and wealth of the Hanseatic League , and second , the paucity of building materials which caused brick to be most commonly used for Gothic buildings . |
| 21 | When sexual response in older people is reduced it has more to do with social factors such as the absence of a partner ; health problems , particularly relating to cardiovascular disease , diabetes , multiple sclerosis and prostrate troubles ; drug side-effects ( many drugs prescribed to older people can have adverse effects on sexual functioning ) ; and the intolerance of social attitudes towards sexual activity in older people , which consider sex to be the province of younger people and that older people make rather ridiculous lovers . |
| 22 | Rights and wrongs of government planning policy which allowed permission to be granted for power stations without regard to transmission should not be raised at the inquiry . |
| 23 | By purporting to de-interpret them by removing the excrescences of later interpretations it made possible a reinterpretation which allowed mythology to be seen again as something that while still existing on the level of the most civilized and polished communication kept speaking of what it had sprung from — men 's basic needs and desires . |
| 24 | For taxpayers , there are the building society TESSAs which allow interest to be credited gross , so long as the original capital remains untouched for five years and no more than the net interest is withdrawn . |
| 25 | We have traditional defences on , for example , diminished responsibility which allow murder to be reduced to manslaughter , or defences introduced in Acts that have been passed in the last couple of years . |
| 26 | Midland offers a number of electronic information services such as BankTrak , AirTrak and Mid-Tape , which enable reconciliation to be conducted simply and cost effectively . |
| 27 | The SVQs are designed to be assessed in the workplace , or , where this is not possible , in simulations which enable assessment to be undertaken to demonstrate consistent , comprehensive performance under workplace conditions including difficult and stressful circumstances . |
| 28 | It would appear that the tape-slide productions , which enable colour to be shown , but not motion , are particularly suitable for use in library education programmes . |
| 29 | It is obvious how much better equipped the relevant authorities will be to prevent illegal exports or to retrieve a work of art thought to have been illegally exported when armed with a full description and photographs which enable title to be firmly established . |
| 30 | It had become possible to demonstrate the causative organism of syphilis , Treponema pallidum , under the microscope ; there was soon to be available a blood test , the Wasserman Reaction ( WR ) , which enabled syphilis to be diagnosed in the absence of any signs of the disease ; and finally , a new syphilitic treatment , Salvarsan , an arsenic compound , had become available . |