Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when , in 1978 , McLaren returned from Brazil with the news that Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs was now ‘ lead singer ’ of the Sex Pistols and someone McLaren earnestly claimed to be the missing Nazi war criminal Martin Bormann was the new bass-guitarist , Branson took it with disarming enthusiasm . |
| 2 | All through my childhood , my body always seemed to be going numb . |
| 3 | My films never pretend to be anything but artefacts — they 're unnatural , contrived , fashioned , unrealistic , on purpose . |
| 4 | Both my life and my salary now have to be really well planned . |
| 5 | Despite all my hard work , my son still wants to be a train driver and my daughter a nurse . |
| 6 | Benjamin and Elizabeth and their family belonged , in effect , to what we might choose to call the ‘ comfortable working class ’ ; they benefited from the general rise in Britain 's prosperity in Victorian times — cheaper food and clothing , better sanitation , faster transport , more substantial housing — but their money still had to be earned , had to be worked for . |
| 7 | The latter symptom , common among individualists , manifests itself as a refusal to acknowledge the problem : while seeking to defend complex theoretical claims , individualists frequently take the intuitive truth of their own doctrine to be so overwhelmingly obvious that its opponents scarcely need to be taken seriously . |
| 8 | The second and fourth acts end with massive , sectional ensemble finales in which varying numbers of characters appear and disappear , as in a farce , and create new crises ( to which solutions rapidly have to be found ) that contribute to the overall pace and tension of the drama . |
| 9 | Her work also began to be recognized by the male-dominated science community , although attempts to join their establishments did not go unopposed . |
| 10 | The idea of what they ought to do is more subtle and will come to them only if they love and trust their parents enough to want to be like them . |
| 11 | However , there are some important similarities to which attention also needs to be drawn , especially in relation to the second aspect of the definition , what it describes . |
| 12 | The passenger committee addressed its appeals to political and religious leaders throughout Europe ; though its messages now had to be shorter , since the shipping line had withdrawn free cabling facilities . |
| 13 | It is obvious that , not only is it necessary for students with disabilities to have reasonable transport , but that their transport often has to be specially adapted . |
| 14 | Jacques Delors , ’ said the message — in tones which observers yesterday took to be ironical , given the sometimes bitter sparring between London and Brussels over a wide range of policies . |
| 15 | The best explanation of their incompatibility still seems to be Mommsen 's : divus Marcus is a later gloss . |
| 16 | History can vouch for the kind of rapid change of fortune and geography which beset Aubrey and Maturin , nor are their actions ever allowed to be improbable . |
| 17 | They had spacious vestibules at both ends to give a large standing capacity , which regulations never permitted to be used to the full . |
| 18 | Many mothers of sons never see them to talk to on their own from the day they marry , because their daughters-in-law always expect to be present on every conceivable occasion , and this is something that can build up a very understandable resentment . |
| 19 | Rainbow and Clint ( OK , her name now appears to be Annie ; that 's all we know so far ) are getting on a treat . |
| 20 | Lying upon the sand at a distance of 200 yards [ 180 m ] , their bodies often seem to be a uniform dull chrome yellow , but in reality the entire upper surface of the animal from snout to tail is of a uniform olive green , mottled with the former colour . |
| 21 | We can now not only see why in such sentences one feels an implicit predication with respect to a support but also get a clearer view of why to is used before the infinitive : its role here seems to be simply that of indicating that the infinitive 's support is situated in time before the actualization of the infinitive 's event . |
| 22 | Several reaction pathways and their rates still have to be explored , and these could radically alter the model calculations . |
| 23 | Shiona held her for a moment , her anger instantly vanishing to be replaced by a warm , maternal well of love . |
| 24 | But calling something a science does not guarantee that its practitioners forthwith cease to be attracted to the same specious accounts of what it is to communicate to which the rest of us are attracted when we try to say what communicating is . |
| 25 | The system of interest group pressure ensuring state responsiveness to its publics thus appears to be flawed . |
| 26 | Here the image that offers to convey something about somebody also strives to protect itself and its subject from that process of narrative unfolding by which portraiture always seems to be accompanied . |
| 27 | Their reflexes also tend to be quicker , with decision-making resting in the hands of one person . |
| 28 | But their significance also needs to be grasped with respect to the operations of splitting , desire , fantasy , pleasure and paranoia which are deeply implicated in racist discourses , and which may inherently produce dualities and ambivalences in racialized encounters between selves and others . |
| 29 | The only excitement in her life now seemed to be the exchange of clothes for hats by Mrs Bretton-Fawcett . |
| 30 | Most of her flowers therefore tend to be in blue , which she would really prefer to combine merely with white to set against all the greens of the garden — but soft shades of mauve and pink also creep in . |