Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] to [be] a " in BNC.
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1 | Therefore , much as I may myself enjoy theatre-going and much as I may cheer when I see a full theatre , I must contain my own enthusiasm if I am to be a cool observer . |
2 | ’ — And if I am to be a great Kha-Khan , I ought to be able to recognise when I am being told the truth . ’ |
3 | ‘ Then I 'm to be a spectator , ’ she said . |
4 | Now I was to be a sales assistant . |
5 | : I did the only thing I could think of , and retired to bed ; if I was to be a blade of grass doomed to be trampled flat , then I might as well accept it and lie down . |
6 | It was a number of weeks ago I had cause to sit on it to do some paperwork ; I then found out I was to be a father again . |
7 | I was to be an avenging angel : Justice , putting right what could not be done through the courts . |
8 | He had concluded that there was no likelihood of a breach of the peace , largely , it would seem , because the protesters had emphasised that theirs was to be a peaceful event . |
9 | You must make your own if you are to be a Lapp . |
10 | I think it is essential to feel that if you are to be a successful athlete . |
11 | This is very difficult when you are accustomed to your precise and meaningful jargon , but it is a skill you must acquire if you are to be a successful communicator . |
12 | A new little contraption we want to try out , so you 're to be a guinea pig . |
13 | She was to be a Spirit Warrior . |
14 | In any event , and no matter what reforms were contemplated , the issue that was posed by Marius Moutet , pre-war Minister for the Colonies in the Popular Front and shortly to become Minister for Overseas France , was whether or not France really considered herself to be a nation of 100 m. and whether or not she was to be a great power . |
15 | She left elementary school at fourteen to take a job filling seed packets for five shillings a week ; later she worked for a draper and subsequently for the Co-op , where she joined the union movement of which she was to be a lifelong member . |
16 | As the Chairman , Pat Retief in his Annual Chairman 's Review says , ‘ we must continue to be a profitable company if we are to be a good employer in the fullest sense , capable of maintaining and enhancing our portfolio of assets and maximising the development of the Group 's human resources . |
17 | And they know they 'll have to unite behind the new one if they 're to be a force at the next General Election . |
18 | They were to be a new form of secondary school — ‘ beacons of excellence ’ — funded mainly by industry , and would concentrate on science and technology . |
19 | If he were to be an ‘ S. ’ also , a Stephen or a Sam , then how was she to know which of them had given her orders ? |
20 | Awful lot of reasons why training i is so important to us an and basically it simply all comes back to our statement is n't it , it it 's to be a sort of feeding insurer to give unsurpassed service . |
21 | Levi 's double life as chemist and writer suggests that if art and work need to be separated , according to a certain sense of what it is to be a Jew , art and work are nevertheless very often the same . |
22 | Justification by faith , similarly , is important only because it goes to the heart of what it is to be a follower of Christ . |
23 | Being ‘ sinful ’ and ‘ just ’ is not the equivalent of having your cake and eating it , but an existential awareness of what it is to be a human being in a sinful and fallen world . |
24 | They are concerned with reductionism , and with what it is to be a ‘ self ’ . |
25 | But because there is some uncertainty about what it is to be a professional librarian and how to respond professionally to many situations , there can be rather tao many difficult decisions to be made ; and the dilemma is not helped by the weakness of the profession , both inherent and externally perceived , on the issue of censorship . |
26 | This is not the basis of the Catholic position which is instead concerned with the nature of what it is to be a priest . |
27 | If it is to be a fish-only tank , then you can only stock 6″ of fish slowly during the first six months . |
28 | They delivered their derogatory cards in turn to NatWest , Midlands , Lloyds and Barclays , and then let their feelings known with specially adapted carols such as : ‘ Jingle tills , jingle tills , jingle all the way/Oh what fun it is to be a High Street bank these days , /Pulling money out , putting receivers in/ Winding business up , with an evil grin . ’ |
29 | What advantage is it to be a man , over it is to be a boy at school , if we have only ‘ scaped the ferule [ cane ] to come under the fescue [ rod ] of an Imprimatur ? |
30 | CHELSEA Clinton has had her first taste of what it is to be a president 's daughter . |