Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [be] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It is no good the Minister , whenever he is found to be wanting and to be wrong , starting to hurl abuse across the Chamber or making allegations that have absolutely no substance . |
| 2 | The National Sound Archive does n't claim to be the natural home for gramophones or other equipment , but it does have a small historical collection , because to understand the recordings , some knowledge of how they were meant to be played is desirable . |
| 3 | That 's how it 's meant to be . |
| 4 | So if you can go back to the original Hebrew of that particular verse then you 'll find out how it 's meant to be said , because a normal bible vision would n't read God 's in there , it would read equals and the name of the Lord , will be saved you see |
| 5 | Details of the secondary booklet and of how it is intended to be used are given in Chapter 4 , which presents case studies of two secondary schools making use of it . |
| 6 | This is probably the case since children do things the way that feels natural to them without worrying unduly how it is meant to be done . |
| 7 | Two stages are involved , the reason for which is neatly summarized in this quotation from C.S. Lewis : The first qualification for judging any piece of workmanship from a corkscrew to a cathedral is to know what it is — what it was intended to do and how it is meant to be used . |
| 8 | To decide whether it is successful , we have to know how it was intended to be used and what it was expected to achieve . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't see how it was meant to be funny . |
| 10 | This was n't how it was meant to be . |
| 11 | I remember my mess-mate and how he was engaged to be married , and today he would be happily married with kids . ’ |
| 12 | The date to remember is Friday , July 17 , when I was honoured to be present at its rebirth , so to speak . |
| 13 | I loved him ; that is why I am allowed to be harsh . |
| 14 | The individual experiences of recovery are so varied and the learning opportunities so diverse that there is a general maxim , " Where you are is where you are meant to be " , which implies that one can learn from any experience and put it to good use in recovery . |
| 15 | A doctor was called and the following day she was taken to Broadgreen , where she is believed to be having treatment for exhaustion . |
| 16 | The Prime Minister objects to a guillotine date for the treaty revision conference even more than to setting of an opening date for the inter-governmental conference where she is resigned to be outvoted . |
| 17 | But the trouble was they were both at the same time after school where she was meant to be decorating the hall for the disco after school that night . |
| 18 | The reason why you are asked to be restrained in drinking calorific drinks is that these , even more than refined carbohydrate foods , have the opposite effect from fibre-rich foods in nearly all those steps in the consumption process which influence your degree of hunger . |
| 19 | I think He judges with mercy , you know erm it 's erm perhaps sometimes when we 're asked to be in a situation where we have to give an opinion , then it should be , if we have wisdom er a merciful erm balance . |
| 20 | We know if it made any note of where we 're meant to be going . |
| 21 | There is a time when they are expected to be looked after by family , friends and neighbours because they are too overcome to cope by themselves . |
| 22 | They will be unable to consummate their marriage until around the turn of the century , when they are expected to be released . |
| 23 | In June , when they are set to be sold , they are likely to become fiercely competitive . |
| 24 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 25 | However they were said to be ‘ furious ’ that the Scottish Office , the local community health specialist and the water suppliers had reassured people that there was no risk to health . |
| 26 | Apparently what the erm busmen do is they have to make sure that they get to where they 're meant to be on time otherwise they get their pay docked but they like to stop off and see their friends on the way , and stop and have cups of tea |
| 27 | Therefore , those ‘ events ’ which enhanced the desired end must be designated ‘ good ’ , and moved into the position where they are acknowledged to be the very origin of the concept of ‘ goodness ’ . |
| 28 | Each partner will have the right to inspect the firm 's books , but not to remove them from the place where they are agreed to be kept . |
| 29 | A search-light may scan the sky looking for aeroplanes or it may move to that part of the sky where they are expected to be . |
| 30 | One of a batch of large bogie cars , delivered to Gravesend where they were found to be too large , also found its way onto the Aurelia Road site , to be tried out when the line opened . |