Example sentences of "to be [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's very rare for any software to be releases in only one version . |
| 2 | He found 38.8 per cent of all inhabitants over 65 to be recipients of poor relief . |
| 3 | ‘ Privatisation of electricity and water also puts a hole straight through the Government 's claim to be guardians of the environment . |
| 4 | They were instead to be guardians of the interests of the commoners and of local interests generally , but they were to have no greater powers than any other members of the Committee . |
| 5 | Dickens also has this habit of making people out to be machines , or making objects become alive . |
| 6 | There would need to be rebates for low-income families and for long-stay patients but the idea was that the working population would be required by law to obtain health insurance . |
| 7 | Maybe one day , she was thinking , her head and her hormones might agree over something ; and on that day the sun would rise and shine all morning , and fish would leap in the river , and all of her bills would turn out to be rebates . |
| 8 | They went to the s School of Signals in the where they learnt to be operators . |
| 9 | Or that they are to be judges , or police commissioners , or toilet attendants . |
| 10 | This theory has it that , as a breed , doctors like to be masters of every possible situation , and that this may even be a factor in their selection of medicine as a career . |
| 11 | It would be based on a variety of forms of public ownership which would enable people to be masters of their own lives and to give full play to their energy and abilities . |
| 12 | Defoe proclaimed that ‘ to be Masters of the Marine Power is to be Masters of all the Power and all the Commerce in Europe ’ . |
| 13 | Defoe proclaimed that ‘ to be Masters of the Marine Power is to be Masters of all the Power and all the Commerce in Europe ’ . |
| 14 | They wish to be masters , to direct capital , to appropriate profit . |
| 15 | These agents are unfortunately fairly easy to come by and the Iraqis have already proven themselves to be masters of er subversive acquisition , er given that they are also now fired with a certain amount of fundamentalism , and should they find their backs to the wall , that even be accelerated . |
| 16 | We have no way of defining , of policing , the boundaries that separate the name of one entity from the name of another ; tropes are not just travellers , they tend to be smugglers and probably smugglers of stolen goods at that . |
| 17 | For , surprisingly , it is not illegal for other conditions to be treated by medically unqualified people as long as such people do not claim to be doctors . |
| 18 | Children are dreamers — they want to be doctors , ballerinas , nurses , and more . |
| 19 | In truth , all Jewish mothers want their sons to be doctors , solicitors , scientists and musicians . |
| 20 | This chapter does not ask counsellors to pretend to be doctors , but to question whether ill-health is not more concerned with social/emotional factors , such as poor diet and lack of fitness , than with normal ageing . |
| 21 | They had to be doctors . |
| 22 | There will need to be contracts negotiated between purchasers and providers for hospital services . |
| 23 | They tend to be loners who dream big dreams , but they are conscientious , hard working , clever and get up early — is this you ? ! |
| 24 | She had heard that parents like this existed all over the place and that their children turned out to be delinquents and drop-outs , but it was still a shock to meet a pair of them in the flesh . |
| 25 | Cardiff looked back to see that the other man had opened one of the metallic cases and taken out what seemed to be earphones , which he was now wearing . |
| 26 | But my opinion on this is really fairly redundant , because the people who are buying it are going to be pros — either that or seasoned bank robbers ! |
| 27 | These high-yield debt securities are considered to be instruments of the devil . |
| 28 | I began to reckon up the people whom I knew to be prisoners . |
| 29 | Amnesty International considers them to be prisoners of conscience . |
| 30 | Amnesty International considers all of them to be prisoners of conscience and has repeatedly called on successive Greek Governments to release them and introduce alternative civilian service of non-punitive length . |