Example sentences of "to [be] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seemed to be plenty to eat , the French are masters at rustling up something to eat at very short notice . |
| 2 | There seemed to be nobody to teach , and the quiet , firm lay organizers of the parish were not about to allow a girl of twenty-four to interfere with the way things were done . |
| 3 | In fact , those who most seem to be themselves appear to me people impersonating what they think they might like to be , believe they ought to be , or wish to be taken to be by whoever is setting standards . |
| 4 | Now the idea behind that is that it builds up and keeps in trim the muscles of the feet and ankles and legs , which is going to be what gets you about because you realize your retirement is going to be as good as your legs . |
| 5 | This does appear to be what happens . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , this , or something similar , is very likely to be what happened . |
| 7 | However , if some setting that you have little or no first-hand experience of does happen to be what has made your imagination bubble and race , you need not cross it off altogether . |
| 8 | The only guide available to what may be very popular in the future is felt to be what has been very popular in the past . |
| 9 | Everybody 's going to be what 's named and this that and the other . |
| 10 | Yes , yeah there used there used to be one go down , another one used to be coming up . |
| 11 | I did n't used to be one to leave dreams be . |
| 12 | Step 4 If the problems are different for each side or the solutions each side wants do not coincide then the bargaining is likely to be one involving conflict , that is based on I win , you lose . |
| 13 | You 've really got to be one to appreciate the spirit of the place but pop in to see what a real pub should be like . |
| 14 | Indeed , in Tolson this was expressed to be the case even where the crime was held to be one requiring proof of a mental element . |
| 15 | You wo n't get a cup of tea , although you might be OK for a Garibaldi if there happens to be one lying around , but you 'll quickly be strapped into the beige and orange sofa , and invited to ‘ Convince us why we should vote for your lot . |
| 16 | If we take a large firm to be one employing more than 1000 and a small one less than 100 , the latter in 1985 employed 15 times as many people in the private sector as a whole and five times as many in manufacturing . |
| 17 | However , there only appears to be one reported case since Bolam where this has occurred ( Hucks v Cole ( 1968 ) 112 Sol Jo 483 ) . |
| 18 | Yeah , you can blow them instead of me if you like , oh no it 's got to be me has it , for the picture ? |
| 19 | I think that , I think in actual fact , that the only thing really to do is if he does n't want to be himself do something else and then he wo n't do it ever again |
| 20 | There seemed to be nothing to say to that . |
| 21 | There appears , moreover , to be nothing to support Husameddin 's account of the circumstances of the death of " Mehmed Sah " , together with Haci Ivaz and Ibrahim Pasa , in 832 beyond the purported letter from Molla Fenari to Murad II which Husameddin mentions but neither quotes nor identifies in such a manner as to make it accessible . |
| 22 | He really was in something of a hurry and there was going to be nothing gained by engaging in either argument of fisticuffs with a cab driver . |
| 23 | There seemed to be nothing to stop nuclear disarmament that summer , when Eisenhower arrived at Geneva and made his ‘ open skies ’ proposal as a confidence-building measure . |
| 24 | All afternoon there seemed to be nothing to do but wait . |
| 25 | After that , there seemed to be nothing to do , so she went upstairs and lay down on the bed . |
| 26 | Huy looked at him , but there seemed to be nothing to read in the face , beyond a curious anxiety , and a curious devotion . |
| 27 | there appears , however , to be nothing to prevent any mental patient registering in a constituency in which he is actually resident . |
| 28 | Until that moment this had seemed perfectly natural to me ; I never imagined it to be something contrived , something worked at in secret , something which even had Pa acting against his most sacred principle : Waste not , want not . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , I 'm a sparker — a wireless telegraphist — and Jane 's a coder , so it 's got to be something to do with signals . |
| 30 | So , Bullett and Freud conclude , well , it has to be something to do with him personally . |