Example sentences of "to be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prince wants to be everything to everyone . |
| 2 | The desire to be everything for somebody , the yearning for ultimate closeness , reached its lunatic peak in the sublime schizophrenia of ‘ If I Was Your Girlfriend ’ ; ‘ if I was your one and only friend would U run to me if somebody hurt U even if that somebody was me ? ’ |
| 3 | Well , that seems to be everything so far as tomorrow is concerned . |
| 4 | The ‘ inside ’ seems to be everything a person knows and hence the familiar was ego-centred but it was bounded by other members of the group following certain rules . |
| 5 | Its opalescent waters seemed to be everything a Star Maiden from the Pleiades could wish to bathe in . |
| 6 | She had to go through the ritual of pleading for information while he pretended reluctance , but then he told her what appeared to be everything . |
| 7 | Terry appeared to be having a nervous breakdown ; her mother was foolishly trying to be everything to everybody and only succeeded in adding to the confusion . |
| 8 | Even though we had explained to him in a small business initially , he was going to be the salesman , he was going to be the marketing director , he was going to be everything . |
| 9 | The brainchild of Reuben Mattus , whose family had been making ice-cream in the Bronx since the 1920s Haagen-Dazs was planned to be everything that standard ice-creams were not . |
| 10 | You 're trying to be everything and they 're pushing it away cos it 's not what they really want and they , I mean , all , all you can get from him is how marvellous , you 're right , how marvellous his brothers are and yet , what I 've heard of the brothers they 're not |
| 11 | When you 've got none , it , it 's sad , but it 's going to be everything . |
| 12 | There seemed to be plenty to eat , the French are masters at rustling up something to eat at very short notice . |
| 13 | There seems to be plenty of confidence between topweight Bonanza Boy in tomorrow 's Coral Welsh National and last year 's winner is now 3-1 joint favourite with Ghofar following two bets of £7,000 to £2,000 with the sponsors . |
| 14 | I think there 's got to be plenty of discussion . |
| 15 | Demand is so high that there is bound to be plenty of interest in two new properties in need of some tender loving care which have just come on to the market . |
| 16 | There is likely to be plenty of activity in one particular area of tax haven planning . |
| 17 | I ca n't ever recall even meeting a priest when I was at United , though there always seemed to be plenty of them around . |
| 18 | There turned out to be plenty of field mice and short-tailed shrews , various larger insects and the odd rat about , so we concluded that there was more than enough food in the vicinity to sustain our pair . |
| 19 | There used to be plenty of job security though now even those on contracts can be pressurised to leave . |
| 20 | There seemed to be plenty for all . |
| 21 | If I needed money , I collected it from Wemmick at Mr Jaggers ' office , and there seemed to be plenty of money available . |
| 22 | The winners will be those with the most innovative ideas , especially for getting unemployed people work — so there ought to be plenty of scope fro an input from the ES . |
| 23 | We loved the atmosphere — it had a real buzz about it and there seemed to be plenty of smiling faces around . |
| 24 | There are likely to be plenty of times in the coming months when he 'll want to walk away , because no matter what attitude he starts with , he 'll be affected by the Grendon experience and that can be frightening . |
| 25 | There seem to be plenty of policemen about , especially at the weekends . |
| 26 | It can be kept to a minimum by proper safety guidelines , of which there seem to be plenty . |
| 27 | Although community care year one is meant to be ‘ steady state ’ , there are bound to be plenty of bumps along the way before it gives way to the managerially more predictable , through financially harsher , 1994–5 . |
| 28 | He commented with amazement that the charge was supposed to be entirely arbitrary and that at one ground it was said to be nil . |
| 29 | ‘ You want to be everybody 's master ! ’ |
| 30 | it 's not going to be the trainee manager , it 's not gon na just be the trainee , it 's going to be everybody all of the management team within the branch . |