Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | And all thanks I got was to be sacked at end of summer — though only for a few months , that is , 'cos of the revolution . |
| 2 | The last thing I expected was to be woken from unconsciousness by an air hostess with the face of an angel , gently patting on my shoulder and telling me that the plane had just landed in Miami . |
| 3 | We are determined to make it work — the last thing I want is to be a laughing stock among local farmers if I fail . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ What I want is to be in charge of myself , to decide what I will or will not do . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ All I want is to be able to go out and play with my friends , ’ she says . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's so wonderful — all I want is to be with her and I get terribly possessive . |
| 7 | ‘ He ca n't hold my grandmother 's misguided behaviour against me when all I want is to be part of the family , to know I belong . ’ |
| 8 | All I seek is to be judged on my record and the record of this group . |
| 9 | All I ask is to be left to get on with my work , and enough support to make it possible . |
| 10 | He seemed to answer every question I had ever asked and to have lived a life far above everything I knew was to be aimed at . |
| 11 | I went and sat in a field and experienced that great bubbling up of love for the Father and for Jesus which I expressed alternately in English and in this new language which I did not understand but which I knew was to be addressed to God and which built me up as I used it . |
| 12 | County Councillor , Councillor on my right , I think is to be congratulated on the work he has done with County Highways on our behalf , and has written to District Council recommending refusal . |
| 13 | Our roads are in a mess and anything that will speed up improving that situation I think is to be welcomed . |
| 14 | My biggest fantasy I think was to be a sort of assistant , a nurse , holding Boy 's hand while O worked on him . |
| 15 | Beautiful though your age is , many though the intellects that adorn it , and ugly though my age is , cruel many of its leaders , I believe that the period from which I come is to be preferred to yours in this respect . |
| 16 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 17 | Who said ‘ all I desire is to be left alone ’ ? |
| 18 | What I need is to be alone . ’ |
| 19 | All I wanted was to be left alone to get on with the job I 'd been trained for and loved . |
| 20 | All I wanted was to be away from Hampton Court before I further incurred Henry 's wrath . |
| 21 | The b l and b 2 vibrations are equally symmetric , and an arbitrary choice has to be made , first as to which set is to be labeled b 1 , and secondly as to whether to maintain the same order in mode numbering . |
| 22 | Returning to the sea-urchin embryo , it can be seen that the animal-vegetal differences could be used to establish the boundary regions , that is , which end is to be which . |
| 23 | ‘ The matters to which regard is to be had in particular … are any of the following which appear to be relevant — ; ( a ) the strength of the bargaining positions of the parties relative to each other , taking into account ( among other things ) alternative means by which the customer 's requirements could have been met ; ( b ) whether the customer received an inducement to agree to the term , or in accepting it had an opportunity of entering into a similar contract with other persons , but without having to accept a similar term ; ( c ) whether the customer knew or ought reasonably to have known of the existence of the term ( having regard , among other things , to any custom of the trade and any previous course of dealing between the parties ) ; ( d ) where the term excludes or restricts any relevant liability if some condition is not complied with , whether it was reasonable at the time of the contract to expect that compliance with that condition would be practic-able ; ( e ) whether the goods were manufactured , processed or adapted to the special order of the customer . ’ |
| 24 | Who do you think is to be the most hurt by such a scandal ? |
| 25 | If you find that the property you want is to be sold at Auction , remember that a lot of time , effort and fees can be expended prior to an Auction and there is no guarantee that you will be successful in purchasing the property . |
| 26 | What you want is to be able to answer a few sensible questions uniquely identifying you , the trouble is there 's probably a repertoire of only ten of those questions , you 're going to get asked three or four of them , but those questions , your date of birth , your telephone number , the er address of your bank and so on and so forth , if you 're a private detective you can get those , you can have them on a sheet of paper and you can pretend to be whoever you like . |
| 27 | You do n't work for money , the haves conceded , all you want is to be near us in order to become us . |
| 28 | You are at the moment , the best thing you get is to be in the top hundred . |
| 29 | The last thing she needed was to be up in front of the stewards again . |
| 30 | The last thing she needed was to be trapped in a broken-down vehicle with Piers Morrison . |