Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] to [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well er I mean well things like communal ownership advocate them to be reforms |
| 2 | We want them to be bailed.A consular official has made regular visits to the jail . |
| 3 | The English Catholics want me to be Queen of England , not her . |
| 4 | Germans want their children to become scientists or engineers ; the French want theirs to be teachers ; the British , lawyers ; the Italians , clerks . |
| 5 | You expect your parents to be superhuman , and they expect you to be kids forever . |
| 6 | ‘ We want you to be godfather , Guy . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps they want you to be King , too , without me , ’ I said quietly . |
| 8 | ‘ Ginny , we want you to be David 's godmother , too … ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I want you to be Governor of Bermuda . |
| 10 | We , we want there to be elements of socialism built into the capitalism we 're creating which will allow us to go straight into , to socialism in the future . |
| 11 | I want there to be trust between us . |
| 12 | Charles and I want him to be godfather , did Charles say ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Some women want the man to be the boss , they want him to be Daddy . |
| 14 | Because they want to sell that , but they want it to be sort of like half private |
| 15 | Nowhere in particular just want it to be Friday . |
| 16 | ‘ Because I want us to be friends . |
| 17 | ‘ I want us to be friends . ’ |
| 18 | I want us to be friends . ’ |
| 19 | What is more , the same conduct may be subjected to a series of different interpretations as subsequent events show it to be part of a pattern of conduct or as an isolated instance , as implicating a wider or narrower range of social relationships , and so on . |
| 20 | ‘ I now declare you to be members of the Elect to be initiated into the Sacred Ministries at the next Easter Vigil ’ |
| 21 | Trust you to be number one ! |
| 22 | Both the Citadel and VMI consider themselves to be repositories of the southern chivalry and military prowess tested so harshly during the Civil War . |
| 23 | I suppose that logicians and physicists normally consider themselves to be poles apart . |
| 24 | They consider themselves to be pillars of society with long-standing royal patronage and a fine reputation for giving away millions of pounds in charity . |
| 25 | We already know it to be IR active because there is a dipole change during the vibration . |
| 26 | Mystics are certain that for brief periods they have been enabled to experience such perception and know themselves to be part of a meaningful whole — one with the way things ultimately are . |
| 27 | In the case of Letitia , who had married an Irish baronet , Sir Thomas Wyse , her refusal to accept the Emperor 's decision that she confine herself to being Lady Wyse , dropping all imperial pretensions by calling herself Bonaparte Wyse , led to her being expelled from France . |
| 28 | No , I believe them to be spies working for a rival power aware of my presence in London and suspicious of my intentions . |
| 29 | For example , on almond trees : ‘ I find them to be trees making a good hedge in a short time … look well round a little wilderness quarters planted with flowering shrubs in a small garden . ’ |
| 30 | Iago 's practice of inversion , by which he destroys Cassio while making him and others believe him to be Cassio 's friend , and by which he turns Desdemona 's purity into a black , viscous liquid that will catch his victims like birds in quicklime , has been fully established by Shakespeare and shown to be successful . |