Example sentences of "i to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At length she asked , ‘ Am I to be content with that snippet of intelligence : ‘ Sir George likes me ’ ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Am I to be weaponless again ? ’ said Hrun . |
| 3 | Indeed , he even reveals that he has recovered from a bout of depression : ‘ What right have I to be depressed ? |
| 4 | Who am I to be merciful ? |
| 5 | Ought I to be fearful for my life ? ’ |
| 6 | Am I to be interested in you or not ? ’ |
| 7 | You appear to me to be fussy and pedantic . |
| 8 | Having eight men from outside the continent in a race did not seem to me to be good business . |
| 9 | seems to me to be good . |
| 10 | ‘ He wanted me to be good , ’ she explained , ‘ but not too good . |
| 11 | However , it seems to me to be incorrect to conclude as a result that article 7 of the E.E.C . |
| 12 | Now he wanted to promote this triple alliance : he told Attlee , ‘ The iron appears to me to be hot . |
| 13 | What appears to me to be essential both for the reader and for the novelist who together constitute a couple — and a couple always comprises two accomplices — is to guide complicity along a most exacting path . |
| 14 | For more than twenty years you have advised me to be cautious , to consider the full implications of my actions , but now , suddenly , you counsel me to rashness . ’ |
| 15 | For me to be autonomous , it is not sufficient that you leave me alone ; rather the way I am treated by you has a bearing on my autonomy , and reciprocally for you . |
| 16 | The idea that we should divide our lives into three parts — education/full-time work/retirement — seems to me to be absurd . |
| 17 | There is a small officers ' annex in the village itself for me to be impotent at , and it is on this hygienic apartment that we increasingly depend . |
| 18 | That seemed to me to be daft , bordering on snobbery . |
| 19 | Her smile seemed to me to be defiant and triumphant and accepting all at once , which was ridiculous since a smile is only a smile : sometimes honest , sometimes forced no more . |
| 20 | That would seem to me to be contrary to government guidance and the wording needs tidying up to reflect that if that is not what is actually meant by the revision and by the wording of the policy . |
| 21 | It appeared to me to be necessary that we should set out our agreed recommendations in some separate document . |
| 22 | As honest and honourable Russian writers , they seemed to me to be emblematic in some way . |
| 23 | This body of mine in which I had taken no pleasure or pride , he was honouring , saying to it , ‘ I love you , I love you , I love you , ’ believing me to be asleep , and I let him go on believing . |
| 24 | How would you like me to be supportive ? |
| 25 | Since then there have been fundamental changes , and few of his principles appear to me to be applicable to the modern Constitution . |
| 26 | ( 2 ) Since the cases before the court are concerned with the taking up of fishing activities by nationals of a member state and the pursuit of those activities in another member state using a vessel registered in that state , article 59 of the E.E.C Treaty on freedom to provide services , which was raised by the Spanish Government , does not seem to me to be applicable . |
| 27 | ‘ Do you want me to be married ? ’ |
| 28 | But they were too far away for me to be certain , and the blinding light could have been playing tricks on the two of us . |
| 29 | Marie told me to be sure to switch it off when I ai n't in the room , or else at night when I 'm sleeping . |
| 30 | It is difficult for me to be sure that I 'm objective , so I think I will go by what other people said . |