Example sentences of "be [adj] to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose I should be grateful to be a white man . |
| 2 | The thought that it might be right to be a monk kept coming back . |
| 3 | It must be strange to be the object of my affection , she thought idly , especially if all you 've had is hard-chested men doing their best but never sure . |
| 4 | If we were to seek an explanation in the fact that Gandhi , as we have seen , does not equate ahi sā with non-killing and notes the distinction between ahi sā and hi sā by indicating that hi sā means killing from motives of anger or selfishness and ahi sā means refraining from so doing , then it might be possible to be a believer in ahi sā and yet kill , provided the killing is not prompted by angry or selfish motives and is performed with detachment as one 's duty . |
| 5 | Erm why do you have to be strong to be a policeman ? |
| 6 | You do n't have to be strong to be a policeman . |
| 7 | You have to be prepared to be a bit dumb . ’ |
| 8 | Do not barge in if you think you are in the wrong , be prepared to be a little late , or concede the best position , but do not be bullied by those who shout at you . |
| 9 | But his recent form has shown the Belgian-bred gelding to be back to his best , and he must be favourite to be the first horse to take the World Cup for a third time . |
| 10 | It would be easy to be a prophet of doom and gloom in these difficult times but in business and in the Association , I sense a new spirit of optimism that better times are just around the corner and that we are at last seeing the tangible signs of recovery . |
| 11 | It can not be easy to be the partner of a genius , and Constanze certainly made the best of it . |
| 12 | Further , the heat ( or other energy ) supplied may be supposed to be a flux across the boundary of the volume under consideration . |
| 13 | One small technical trick to aid you in keeping the police at bay , I add , is for your corpse to be supposed to be the result of an accident , often seeming such to everybody but your incurably inquisitive heroine . |
| 14 | His owner Dick Knowles told Dogs Today : ‘ There 's nothing in the constitution that says you have to be human to be an MP ! |
| 15 | Farewells & A Grave With No Name by Juan Carlos Onetti tr by Peter Bush Quartet , £12.95 IT MUST be hard to be a South American novelist these days . |
| 16 | What it actually means erm is that er there is unlikely to be a by-pass for some time , but in effect that would be likely to be the case anyway , one because of the cost of the by-pass overall and secondly because of the erm position with regard to other aspects of the roads programme and the level of T S G that we are currently receiving er even if there was an agreed line as of today erm bearing in mind the th the other things that have happened in the roads programme , it still would be unlikely that the by-pass would be er programmed in such a way that it would allow housing or other development to take place in East Grinstead within either the structure plan period or the local plan period and hence the points that then er that the report moves on to erm come into play . |
| 17 | ‘ It will be a good-looking pig , but it would be terrible to be a child with a face like that . ’ |
| 18 | Would it not be reasonable to be a little more objective ? |
| 19 | It must be great to be a bird — you know , just flying over people and buildings and that . |
| 20 | Later in the 1960s it would be great to be a student , but not then , not for Robins . |
| 21 | It must be great to be a human , Grimma thought , as thorns the length of her hand tore at her dress . |
| 22 | It would be great to be the very Unwise Woman on occasions . |
| 23 | Now was n't it supposed to be unlucky to be the last in cutting your corn ? |
| 24 | However , environments are usually so variable that even if the conditions are good where the animal is now , they probably will not be in a month 's time ; it may then be better to be a hundred miles south . |
| 25 | It must be better to be an alone child than to have a brother like Augustin . |
| 26 | Yeah well come on I mean we ought to be able to be a little bit more creative than that . |
| 27 | It makes me cough a bit because when I came on the scene he was the one academically everything and she was the one who was academically rather disadvantaged but she , she was , you know , no not having the greatest of , of , of success but erm it was said that she would n't be able to be a student nurse because she was n't bright enough but you know she clocked up the O levels and A levels like guide badges and she went off on this pre-nursing course in South Notts you know and she was in and out of the Queens on a course and people and , you know , and she said I do n't know all the answers but I 've a rough idea about some of the questions , I want to be a nurse and off she went to , to , to Walsall and I 'm not saying she 's a brilliant student nurse but erm absolutely clear that she 's better than some of the others . |
| 28 | ‘ I have to be quick , ’ I told Eric , and explained why he would not be able to be the principessa 's gardener . |
| 29 | I was scared to death when I married you because I knew I would n't be able to be the kind of wife you needed . |
| 30 | I have to go to a cocktail party at the Library Association this evening , ’ he went on , ‘ so I 'm afraid I sha n't be able to be the ministering angel . |