Example sentences of "[indef pn] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone to be around . |
| 2 | To know someone to be a gouger gives some policemen and women cause to believe that they have the excuse to ignore the minor requests for assistance that the person may make , and for his or her minor infringements of the law to be taken seriously . |
| 3 | Nine o'clock for someone to be taken to — ’ ( It was the day-care centre for the very old — those no longer able to manage for themselves . ) |
| 4 | Someone to be here , to care about her ? |
| 5 | While that child is away , the organizer chooses someone to be the murderer . |
| 6 | One solution is never to leave your home unoccupied again , but if you ca n't face life without holidays you could pay someone to be there when you are n't . |
| 7 | ‘ There were a lot of decisions made on the mainland — and she was not someone to be sat on . ’ |
| 8 | This attitude is not uncommon but it was new to me , as were a good many of Sophie 's ideas , and because of its novelty I think I was unconsciously moulded by it : I had begun to see Richard as someone to be ‘ got round ’ , a duped enemy rather than a husband . |
| 9 | But suppose we think that everything that is said purports to be a statement of fact , and suppose we think that for someone to be justified in saying what he says he must say it on the basis of something he has observed . |
| 10 | Now , ( iii ) for someone to be entitled to say that something is the case he must have some basis for what he says . |
| 11 | Until recently , Peter had thought of Kate as someone to be avoided : a member of an alien species who happened to be Richard 's sister . |
| 12 | Carlotta de Leyva belongs to one of the liberal families opposed to the dictator Lopez and as the betrothed of the leader of that opposition , Don Manuel of Encinitas , she is to some extent a figurehead , a political symbol : moreover , to the youth of eighteen , Highworth Ridden , who is introduced to her soon after his arrival in Santa Barbara , she is an ideal because she is in effect the first woman who has ever touched his love , as someone to be served , not someone to aspire to . |
| 13 | Someone to be scared of . |
| 14 | Now there is nothing wrong with this argument as it stands , but it is weak ; it assumes that there are other minds than our own , and argues only that we may be mistaken about their states , thinking someone to be happy when she is really sad , etc . |
| 15 | But if they had n't been there , if they had been different kinds of men erm , I do n't think I would have been able to pick someone to be my husband or my partner who could be a decent father to my kids . |
| 16 | I felt that I needed someone to be with me all day and all night . |
| 17 | Women doing long sentences are obviously going to try and find someone to be close to . |
| 18 | ‘ Once upon a time I 'd 've made you turn religious , ’ said Constance , and suddenly it occurred to Scarlet that really she was already religious , as anyone who had borne a child must surely be : not in the conventional sense but rather as a passenger on a train would expect someone to be at the controls . |
| 19 | Except where a certificate for summary administration has been issued , as soon as practicable in the twelve week period after the making of a bankruptcy order , the official receiver must decide whether or not to summon a meeting of creditors for the purpose of choosing someone to be the trustee of the estate in his place ( s 293(1) ) . |
| 20 | He telephoned the Forensic Science Laboratory and arranged for someone to be sent down . |
| 21 | If you wish , you may authorise someone to be your agent to draw your pension or allowance and pay your charge for you . |
| 22 | Also , you may want someone to be able to see base figures and a final result , but not the devious manipulations you have performed on the route twixt the two . |
| 23 | Men do so long for someone to be in charge . |
| 24 | In a group of 20 or 30 youngsters from the background described by my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff , West ( Mr. Morgan ) it would be considered odd for someone to be puffing away and spreading filth in the direction of others in that group . |
| 25 | We support and accept the good sense of increasing sentences for offences that are worse than taking and driving away and of extending the deterrent of disqualification where personal injury and damage occurs , but it is quite another thing for someone to be guilty of additional offences that he does not commit , to which he is not a party and which he might not have foreseen as the likely consequences of his taking and driving away . |
| 26 | WILD SCANDINAVIAN seeks someone to be wild with ! |
| 27 | Elizabeth was someone to be in this situation and Portia is also . |
| 28 | In the sentence below , the underlying attitude of the speaker is betrayed somewhat by the adverb actually ( suggesting " you may not believe this " ) , and one understands as in ( 69 ) that he would not have thought it possible for someone to be so audacious as the public relations officer was : ( 70 ) But Drew was as determined as any Soviet Commissar to fulfil his self-imposed quota , and the fuse to his temper began smouldering whenever anyone suggested the 15% target might be overly ambitious . |
| 29 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
| 30 | erm and as such a likely hiding place for someone to be was beneath the bed , erm I then lifted the bed with one hand , as I had my revolver drawn in the other hand , erm and then seeing no one was underneath it , I I dropped it again . |