Example sentences of "to be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er just pay it to Are are we talking about er s subs ? |
| 2 | Sheriff Carl Peed of Virginia in America , said the un-named officer was the first woman to be been sacked for sexual harassment . |
| 3 | The fact that the subject believes himself to be been falsely suspected will not necessarily protect him from criminal liability if he should over-react . |
| 4 | Well used to be 's do n't count . |
| 5 | Beafra it used to be in n it ? |
| 6 | It 's the best way to be in n it ? |
| 7 | It 's got to be in n it ? |
| 8 | Ala I want my writing to be is modest , restrained , colourful , truthful … . |
| 9 | Now , all you need to be is Tammuz Malamute . |
| 10 | The last place you want to be is in church . |
| 11 | The all-American claim that You Can Be Anything You Want To Be is an obvious fraud , but while Jimmy Connors is on court , you can believe it . |
| 12 | That it appears to be is its power . |
| 13 | The assertion that a trust is valid because a testator wants it to be is misleading . |
| 14 | Smith 's unfavourable opinion , which does not seem justified in respect of Coleman 's professional career , is expressed in what seems to be is an inexplicably biassed manner . |
| 15 | We wish also to persuade him that once he takes fully into account that his ultimate goals are spontaneous ( are , not ought to be ; what they ought to be is intelligent as well as spontaneous ) , he will require no first principle other than ‘ Be aware ’ for choosing between them . |
| 16 | One of the most confusing places to be is the lift at the BBC Television Centre . |
| 17 | An indication of the powerhouse force she plans to be is the existence of a shortlist of top business women , earmarked for her ‘ Chief of Staff ’ . |
| 18 | In view of that , we can recognize the possibility that as rational beings we fall under a system of law which we have somehow ourselves brought into being , and that it is our task while appearing to exist in the sensory world to live according to that law , in spite of the fact that what we appear to be is simply animals driven by sensory desire . |
| 19 | Which services these are to be is always a matter of dispute and may be a crucial factor in relations between central and local government . |
| 20 | Over Christmas and the New Year , the best place to be is Disneyworld in Florida for truly magical celebrations . |
| 21 | Nothing is simply or singly , to be is to be between ideas , beliefs , cultures , and discourses . |
| 22 | All the novel is intended to be is a bit of fun — something that you might pick up at an airport and that takes you through the journey in a pleasant fashion . |
| 23 | Just how complicated a problem this may turn out to be is indicated by the following quotations from the opening paragraphs of the first two chapters of Christine Hugh-Jones ' very remarkable book From the Milk River , which is a study of Pira-pirana Indians living in the Vaupes region of Colombia , as viewed from the perspective of the inhabitants of a single longhouse community in which she and her husband resided for two years between September 1968 and December 1970 : |
| 24 | The only place I really want to be is my own flat . ’ |
| 25 | One of the reasons for Bell Lawrie feeling that Brewin Dolphin was the right answer to its future was that their approaches are similar and therefore such integration as there needs to be is largely confined to systems . |
| 26 | 1993 , and the place to be is London ; the clothes , shops , cars , museums , parks , nightclubs , disco 's , pubs , casino 's , the ACTION … |
| 27 | 1993 , and the place to be is London , with all the good and the bad ! |
| 28 | We shall adopt a small arrow as our notation for assignment in this sense , so that ( 31 ) ( excluding irrelevant details like number , and the particular tense employed ) may be represented as ( 35 ) , where we again abbreviate by passing directly from the word forms to the intensional pattern : We may note , by the way , that the copular verb to be is the direct formal representation of the relation of assignment ; this has to be expressed overtly in English ( as well as being indicated by the order of noun and adjective ) , although in many other languages , e.g. Russian and Arabic , no overt exponent is required . |
| 29 | There 's a In in the weekend review with the Daily Mail today , Bonny Langford is sitting there saying all I want to be is a women , and not thought of as a little girl . |
| 30 | It 's not going to be is it Jennifer ? |