Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] be [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The driver everyone is tipping to be a future world champion … |
| 2 | I did actually get over to work for them in 1968–70 and 1971 , but this story I am referring to was in 1967 when I was just paying a visit and was given a bed for the night in the hostel . |
| 3 | Those who pursue comparisons of the kind I am referring to are likely to be impressed by the staying-power of a literary preoccupation to which a variety of temperaments and compulsions has been attracted , and could well be inclined to believe that Pechorin 's duel and indifference may have been among the precedents that weighed , a century later , with a woman bent on contriving her appointment with destiny . |
| 4 | Mr Chairman I am going to be brief within the er triscale and resources we have available to us we may , I think , a reason of what an attempt to get back in current idiom , back to basics . |
| 5 | Thinking I was going to be pulled into some thicket and raped and murdered . |
| 6 | It completely slipped my mind I was going to be accused of theft ! |
| 7 | As the role of er , business in the community is well at the top of personal agenda , in my job as I B M Personnel Director and Director of Corporate Affairs , the Corporate Affairs bit , er , is the piece I 'm going to be talking about . |
| 8 | ‘ Next term I 'm going to be teaching part of a course on the influence of gender on style , ’ Loretta added , again to little response . |
| 9 | The department I was attached to was fighting an uphill battle against prejudice from the old school clique and the niggardly allowances from the Treasury . |
| 10 | Characteristics which were found to be statistically significant in their relation to manufacturing employment change were deemed to be contributory causes of it . |
| 11 | Moustaine explained in a low , controlled voice that any violence which was going to be dished out would come from him and the Corporals . |
| 12 | At the same time , SCOTVEC is continuing to respond to the wishes of some industry Lead Bodies to develop units which are designed to be delivered and assessed in the workplace . |
| 13 | It will be the main task of Part Four of the book to explore the rationality of perfectionist moral pluralism , i.e. of pluralism of many forms of the good which are admitted to be so many valuable expressions of people 's nature , but pluralism which allows that certain conceptions of the good are worthless and demeaning , and that political action may and should be taken to eradicate or at least curtail them . |
| 14 | The upgrading of the play facilities is included in Year 2 of the revised rolling programme which is expected to be implemented in the 1994/95 financial year . |
| 15 | The upgrading of the play facilities is included in Year 2 of the revised rolling programme which is expected to be implemented in the 1994/95 financial year . |
| 16 | They argue that it is unnatural to break up a programme which was made to be viewed as a whole . |
| 17 | In early December 1990 the Defence Department had released an internal report which cited " errors of judgment and failures of supervision " in the programme which was estimated to be at least $1,300 million over budget and 18 months behind schedule . |
| 18 | And this school , of which afterwards he could only remember that he was so homesick , must have helped the mind which was alleged to be backward and was not . |
| 19 | Thrifts were banned by law from investing in equities which were deemed to be too risky . |
| 20 | There was also a genuine fear that open conflict between the two sides of the industry must be avoided ( a fear which was shown to be not entirely illusory in a subsequent reorganisation , see pp. 194–5 below ) . |
| 21 | There is , then , no shortage of social science research which is claimed to be necessary if we are to cope with environmental change . |
| 22 | However , some commuters are designed with micro-instruction formats much more similar to normal machine code instruction formats , especially those computers which are designed to be microprogrammed by their users . |
| 23 | The GEF is likely to handle most of the funds which are expected to be pledged by donor countries under conventions on climate change and the protection of biological diversity due to be agreed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , in June . |
| 24 | Hello there … this week summer sport has brought us to the south coast to take a look at a sailing revolution that 's being pioneered from the heartland of Central South … we 're going out on the solent to sea test a boat which is reckoned to be the formula one of the water |
| 25 | Parents are also totally against shutting schools which are seen to be unsuccessful an integral point of Education Secretary John Patten 's new Bill . |
| 26 | The public good defence for performances which were proved to be ‘ in the interests of drama , opera , ballet or any other art , or of literature or learning ’ omitted the words ‘ or other objects of general concern ’ , thereby rejecting the so-called ‘ therapeutic defence ’ according to which pornography was claimed to be ‘ psychologically beneficial ’ to some persons ‘ in that it relieves their sexual tensions and may divert them from anti-social activities ’ . |
| 27 | Both of these words which are said to be inadequate fail to satisfy one or other of the criteria outlined for a wording to establish a trust . |
| 28 | Words which are meant to be comforting and familiar may be frightening or threatening . |
| 29 | Words which are meant to be symbols of reality take the place of what they stand for . |
| 30 | Pregnancy is often associated with two definite gall bladder abnormalities — namely , reduced gallbadder contractility which is believed to be due to raised progesterone concentrations , and the development of biliary sludge . |