Example sentences of "[pron] to be [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am still friends with my ex-husband who takes it on himself to be my personal agony aunt . |
| 2 | Addressing himself to the inhabitants of the world , jinn , men and angels , he said , ‘ The Imam of our time has sent you his blessing and his compassion and has called you to be his special , chosen servants . |
| 3 | That is the time for there to be nothing wrong with our drawings . |
| 4 | Mrs Huntley sighed ; her brother whom she had loved , but knew to be self-indulgent to a fault , had done his niece real harm by leaving so much of his money away from the girl who had confidently believed herself to be his favourite thing on earth . |
| 5 | nothing to be nothing wrong with it than that you did n't tell them and there might be something wrong with it . |
| 6 | ‘ There does n't seem to me to be anything wrong with the school she 's in now . ’ |
| 7 | Why he should hold them , why he should so strangely realize them , and above all , why he should have chosen me to be his solitary audience of one , remained a total mystery . |
| 8 | Wants you to be — ’ Nutty paused , not quite sure what he wanted them to be , but knowing that he wanted them to be something other than they were . |
| 9 | While hating him she had loved him , and , loving him , had no shame in wanting him to be her only mate . |
| 10 | Merthyr want him to be their chief executive , masterminding their bid for Football League status — much as he did at Barnet . |
| 11 | Since some people regard them as the ultimate madness and evil they deem it to be their moral right to break laws , mostly in a non-violent manner , as a form of protest . |
| 12 | Puritans also believed it to be their pressing duty to agitate for the introduction of godly reforms into the church . |
| 13 | The Social Democratic Party considers it to be its positive and principal task to further the self-determination of the proletariat in each nationality rather than that of peoples or nations … it is only in isolated and exceptional cases that we can advance and actively support demands conducive to the establishment of a new class state . |
| 14 | Ought n't it to be something nice and lawful this time ? |
| 15 | But I 'm very loathe to attempt to force it to be something other than that which it is . |
| 16 | He wanted it to be his personal team . |
| 17 | When those who believe in war refuse to do their duty , that is , when they refuse to fight for some reason or other , Gandhi feels it to be his moral duty to enlighten them as to their responsibilities as soldiers , while at the same time presenting them with the alternative path of ahi sā . |
| 18 | Magee also received the impression that the man felt it to be his moral duty to warn a responsible person who might be able to do something about it . |
| 19 | The black-and-white photograph of Darlington body-builder Mr David Brown had not won any prizes but the current European Portrait Photographer of the Year declared it to be his overall favourite . |
| 20 | Barbarossa , as we have seen , believed it to be his holy duty to weld crown and church together . |