Example sentences of "[pers pn] [am/are] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | And incidentally , ’ added the canny Scot , ‘ I am now to be known as Princess Deborah Barbecue . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm here to be made love to when you need to , or when you think I need to , just to cover up . |
| 5 | I 'm yet to be convinced . ’ |
| 6 | As the front-man , ever in vision , I accept I 'm there to be shot at . |
| 7 | At the moment , I 'm still to be convinced . |
| 8 | Again , a simple colour change in the test will tell you whether or not you are soon to be a mum . |
| 9 | The boat 's on its side in the water and you 're nowhere to be seen but in fact it 's all quite straightforward , neither the boat nor you can sink and it 's simply a question of pulling the boat back upright again and carrying on sailing . |
| 10 | If however , you 're here to be a beach bum , then the beautiful stretch of white sand contrasted against the clear blue sea is a definite magnet for all keen sun-worshippers . |
| 11 | People think if you 're small , you 're there to be downtrodden , and they have a stack of prejudices about all the other things that I happen to be . |
| 12 | And it 's right : you 're not a service to pop groups , you 're there to be a good writer and to entertain people . |
| 13 | If we 're still to be bombarded by these people — ’ |
| 14 | They are shortly to be voting on new student dress regulations that will allow school principals to ban the sign from their institutions . |
| 15 | They are yet to be involved in the testing process : ‘ My real concern for my children is that they have n't gone through the tests for 14-year-olds yet , ’ he says . |
| 16 | They are also to be found near to towns and some holiday resorts in South East England where many of the perhaps 70,000 residential caravans are located . |
| 17 | They are also to be seen in neat pleated skirts of the kind to be found at Jaeger and Country Casuals . |
| 18 | Its branches fork from an implanted bud just above ground level and normally make 2–4ft ( 0.6–1.2m ) high , although — and this has to be said — too often encouraged by incorrect and only partial pruning that permits new growth to break not from near ground level but from 1ft ( 0.3m ) , 2ft ( 0.6m ) , or even higher , they are frequently to be seen consisting of younger bloom bearing growth on top of old barky stems , the whole reaching 5ft ( 1.5m ) , even 6ft ( 1.8m ) , or more in height . |
| 19 | So something more must be said about beliefs , expectations , hopes , and so on , than that they are not extended , if they are adequately to be distinguished from these other non-extended phenomena . |
| 20 | These coins can be dated no more closely than the late 750s or early 760s , but they are possibly to be associated with the disintegration of Aethelbald 's imperium in southern England following his death . |
| 21 | Certainly , he does not lack for critics ; and they are mainly to be found on the left of the political spectrum , amongst those who subscribe to Socialism in one or other of its varying forms . |
| 22 | Again , they are mainly to be found in London , and because there is a high demand for their skills , they can be confident of a steady supply of engagements . |
| 23 | They are there to be hugged , fought and played with . |
| 24 | The links between proteins , the lowly building blocks of the brain , and personalities , the high abstractions of the mind , are undoubtedly going to be convoluted — but evidence from both ends suggests they are there to be found . |
| 25 | And they are there to be worked to until such time as we find a better way of doing it . |
| 26 | They are there to be found in everything from car boot sales to Victorian garden dumps . |
| 27 | Likening God to a shepherd has made many people assume that the point of the metaphor was to emphasize the sheep-like quality of people — that they have no mind of their own , that they are there to be told what to do and treated like sheep . |
| 28 | In daylight they are only to be seen from ships at sea , when the two smaller petrels appear all dark birds with white rumps as they flutter and dance across the waves . |
| 29 | They are now to be taken under the jurisdiction of the Queen , who is determined that they will be protected from the emotional mayhem currently being created by their parents . |
| 30 | Christians I have suggested , if they are rightly to be named Christians , must in some sense believe that God was in a unique way related to Christ , so that he becomes particular for them , and they are ( as I am not ) in their religion related to history . |