Example sentences of "to be [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As opposed to are they about where the new settlement should be generally located ? |
| 2 | The desire to be everything for somebody , the yearning for ultimate closeness , reached its lunatic peak in the sublime schizophrenia of ‘ If I Was Your Girlfriend ’ ; ‘ if I was your one and only friend would U run to me if somebody hurt U even if that somebody was me ? ’ |
| 3 | Prince wants to be everything to everyone . |
| 4 | Terry appeared to be having a nervous breakdown ; her mother was foolishly trying to be everything to everybody and only succeeded in adding to the confusion . |
| 5 | There seemed to be plenty for all . |
| 6 | There seems to be plenty of confidence between topweight Bonanza Boy in tomorrow 's Coral Welsh National and last year 's winner is now 3-1 joint favourite with Ghofar following two bets of £7,000 to £2,000 with the sponsors . |
| 7 | I think there 's got to be plenty of discussion . |
| 8 | Demand is so high that there is bound to be plenty of interest in two new properties in need of some tender loving care which have just come on to the market . |
| 9 | There is likely to be plenty of activity in one particular area of tax haven planning . |
| 10 | I ca n't ever recall even meeting a priest when I was at United , though there always seemed to be plenty of them around . |
| 11 | There turned out to be plenty of field mice and short-tailed shrews , various larger insects and the odd rat about , so we concluded that there was more than enough food in the vicinity to sustain our pair . |
| 12 | There used to be plenty of job security though now even those on contracts can be pressurised to leave . |
| 13 | If I needed money , I collected it from Wemmick at Mr Jaggers ' office , and there seemed to be plenty of money available . |
| 14 | The winners will be those with the most innovative ideas , especially for getting unemployed people work — so there ought to be plenty of scope fro an input from the ES . |
| 15 | We loved the atmosphere — it had a real buzz about it and there seemed to be plenty of smiling faces around . |
| 16 | There are likely to be plenty of times in the coming months when he 'll want to walk away , because no matter what attitude he starts with , he 'll be affected by the Grendon experience and that can be frightening . |
| 17 | There seem to be plenty of policemen about , especially at the weekends . |
| 18 | Although community care year one is meant to be ‘ steady state ’ , there are bound to be plenty of bumps along the way before it gives way to the managerially more predictable , through financially harsher , 1994–5 . |
| 19 | No I suppose er it 's a bit hard on th , the kid , sort of , work wise , expecting her to be her to be er ahead , but not |
| 20 | It seemed such a bizarre exchange after two decades of silence that he repeated her name — ‘ Sue ? ’ — as if it might turn out not to be her after all . |
| 21 | By the time she reached the front door the house , she knew , had to be hers for the summer . |
| 22 | But there are many people who would not find it fulfilling to be themselves at any cost and at the expense of another . |
| 23 | Allow your friends/family/lovers to be themselves within your shared relationship . |
| 24 | She watches her values slowly being eroded , and she describes the process of moral degradation in terms of language : ‘ You find yourself giving in on little things , twisting words and meanings , always trying to be one-up on whoever you 're with , and then suddenly you give in on something else , much bigger ’ ( 131–2 ) . |
| 25 | He says that 's what you want but I said yeah but there ai n't no bloody fit I reckon it ought to be them on legs maybe . |
| 26 | Yet panels have to be one above the other , not side by side . |
| 27 | Those who suppose that a millennium is a millennium is a millennium will see that the distinction between Owen 's and O'Brien 's to be one without a practical difference ; and put a question-mark against the doctrine on which it stands . |
| 28 | It really wants to be one without the roads marked . |
| 29 | There was a man born among these Jews who claimed to be , or to be the son of , or to be one with the something which is at once the awful haunter of Nature and the giver of the moral law . |
| 30 | The theological justification behind such an approach ( not that I had necessarily thought this out at the time when I was a member of the church ) must surely be that God 's will must be held to be one with what is good , and therefore what Christianity proclaims can not differ from human ethical goods . |