Example sentences of "[be] [adj] to be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they 're supposed to be the experts on camouflage , she thought ironically . |
| 2 | ‘ And we 're supposed to be the Party of the family , ’ said Grunte , piously . |
| 3 | You 're supposed to be the voice of Interplanetary Parliament . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You 're supposed to be the hero , are n't you ? |
| 5 | They 're supposed to be the passives . |
| 6 | SECATEURS are likely to be the tool most in demand now . |
| 7 | Conditions are likely to be the heaviest of the season so far and the side — the pack particularly — that controls the ball and makes fewer mistakes could carry the day . |
| 8 | As we have said , when bereavement care is thought of , it is usually the spouse that we have in mind as needing support , and indeed they are likely to be the ones asking for care . |
| 9 | The people who may need it most are likely to be the unrecognized ones , the ones who it is somehow felt do not have a ‘ right ’ to support , even if it is known that they are upset . |
| 10 | In many circumstances GPs are likely to be the first professional to decide a section is necessary and initiate the section assessment process subsequently involving ASWs . |
| 11 | Again , no formal theory of attention is developed and indeed it is unclear that some mechanism other than that involved in abstraction is necessary — the distinctive features of an object or event are likely to be the invariants and the irrelevant aspects those that vary from presentation to presentation . |
| 12 | Identify the local politicians who are likely to be the most sympathetic . |
| 13 | You may be able to sue a negligent surveyor or go to arbitration , but you are likely to be the loser , though your interests are now ( since April 1989 ) better protected in law . |
| 14 | Cases of this severity are likely to be the ones which would lead you to seek expert medical advice from your local health care practitioner . |
| 15 | Nonetheless , they have to be negotiated ; and the schools that do this best are likely to be the ones that anticipate most realistically and plan most effectively . |
| 16 | You as a care assistant are likely to be the most important person to show someone who 's depressed that they are cared for . |
| 17 | But these 600 , says Lynch , are likely to be the most difficult to handle . |
| 18 | Quoting from a conference held at Aberdeen in 1973 , the plan points out that community facilities and housing are likely to be the subject of much inter-community wrangling . |
| 19 | TAIWAN are likely to be the cannon-fodder of the pool , although their national side 's rapid development programme , modelled on the New Zealand forward technique , should have trickled down to the students , ensuring that the defeats are n't too heavy . |
| 20 | Envy , greed , hate , fear and the desire to dominate are likely to be the real fingers on the trigger of our destruction . |
| 21 | Other crabs and certain fish specialise in crushing mollusc shells , and where these predators exist , hermit crabs with the thickest shells are likely to be the safest . |
| 22 | Although school has an important part to play in a young child 's total development , the tensions of life beyond the classroom are likely to be the ones which determine educational failure or educational success . |
| 23 | More selective collections on specific topics are likely to be the student 's most convenient first references in searching this class of material . |
| 24 | Newspapers that do not change are likely to be the exception rather than the rule . |
| 25 | Key concerns are likely to be the question of money and how you will occupy your time . |
| 26 | Those responsible for designing and piloting GCSE have taken the view that such aspects are not appropriate , whereas the records-of-achievement lobby would argue that they are among the most important aspects of progress to record , because in the end they are likely to be the most fundamental . |
| 27 | Irrespective of what maintains the size of the total peripheral T-cell pool , mechanisms that maintain a T-lymphocyte clone in cell division , and concomitantly expressing CD45R0 , are likely to be the most important factors determining the frequency of T lymphocytes responsive to a given recall antigen . |
| 28 | In specific policy areas , moreover , these committee leaders are likely to be the more important political actors , fully capable of destroying a president 's legislative proposals . |
| 29 | To this extent movements or parties specifically committed to a ‘ nationalist ’ programme , mostly separatist , are likely to be the expression of sectional or minority interest , or to be politically fluctuating and unstable . |
| 30 | Er a lot of people give the impression that we should all be more interactive , that we should go abroad and speak languages to many of these people , but the people you come into contact with when you go on holiday in Spain , the only Spanish people are likely to be the waiter who served you and he 's serving you as part of his job . |