Example sentences of "[pron] [am/are] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ If Major Calder and I are about to be deprived of your services , ’ Carew answered evenly , ‘ then we 'll have to use another and faster method of disrupting the IRB organisation . ’ |
2 | I am luckily to be hear to write after the bombing of our works I have not had a chance to explain or to see the person who is in charge of this case … |
3 | Without the which I am not to be won , |
4 | ‘ It seems I am not to be Archdeacon of Woodborough . |
5 | " Are you saying I am not to be set up to dine with the Prince at Carlton House ? |
6 | Sir , I am not to be caught by a bait so poorly covered as this ! |
7 | I am not to be intimidated by house plants and silk ties , she thought . |
8 | I hope I am not to be cast absolutely into the outer darkness , Helen — I should find that very wretched . ’ |
9 | And incidentally , ’ added the canny Scot , ‘ I am now to be known as Princess Deborah Barbecue . |
10 | As one teacher said , ‘ I am still to be convinced whether the energy and time required to do effective evaluation would balance the increased efficiency in teaching which might follow . ’ |
11 | And a little nervous that I am about to be ticked off for my unorthodox and amiable occupation of the Rosenbloom . |
12 | My heart , or what passes for one in demonic physiology , is in my mouth , for fear that I am about to be exiled from Rainbow Rosenbloom , and from Chinese food , movies and other earthly delights , for evermore . |
13 | I 'm here to be made love to when you need to , or when you think I need to , just to cover up . |
14 | I 'm yet to be convinced . ’ |
15 | ‘ I 'm not to be turned into the street ? ’ |
16 | So I 'm not to be coddled like a twelve-year-old , thank you very much . |
17 | ‘ Do n't you be taken in , I 'm not to be trusted , ’ he said , noticing that his spectacles were steamed up . |
18 | ‘ If I 'm not to be allowed Mozart , why not somebody with an appropriate gloom quotient like Mahler ? |
19 | ‘ I 'm not to be bought . |
20 | ‘ I 'm not to be a pawn in your game , Benedict ! ’ |
21 | ‘ Well , for the first , as far as I 'm concerned they do n't go without the second , and for the second , I do n't believe I 'm about to be asked . ’ |
22 | As the front-man , ever in vision , I accept I 'm there to be shot at . |
23 | At the moment , I 'm still to be convinced . |
24 | This represents the number of entries subsequent the specified print sequence number which are also to be proofed . |
25 | This represents the number of entries subsequent the specified print sequence number which are also to be cross-referenced . |
26 | Others have drawn attention to the weak political culture : ‘ I perceive the most significant structural defect of our democracy in the lethargy and apathy which are increasingly to be found within our parties and other groups … |
27 | Our brief list contains four which are not to be found in the BL catalogue as we have seen . |
28 | Publishers rarely , if ever , charge for personal things like Christmas cards which are not to be offered for sale |
29 | Words for strong stemming might be filtered through a table of exceptions which are not to be stemmed ( " organism " , " organist " etc ) Strong stemming is an economical but crude way of automatically bringing in some of the halo of see also terms which surround many search words . |
30 | Any terms in light type which are not to be used as headings in the catalogue direct the cataloguer to a ‘ used ’ heading covering the same or a similar concept . |