Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [vb pp] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them are held to be responsible for relaxation phenomena at low temperatures while folds are of great importance in the crystallization of polymers . |
| 2 | This hypothesis is supported by the fact that most plant families that produce bird-dispersed seeds are of very wide distribution and that several of them are held to be primitive , e.g. Annonaceae , Lauraceae , while several genera conspicuous in this trait are found in both tropical America and Australasia . |
| 3 | I am determined to be happy despite your scolding ! ’ |
| 4 | Earlier this summer he similarly told the Observer 's Mark Frankland ‘ The more I am forced to be active in politics , the more I enjoy doing theatre . ’ |
| 5 | I am expected to be present where there is beer flowing . ’ |
| 6 | I loved him ; that is why I am allowed to be harsh . |
| 7 | I 'm meant to be well now and it 's not much cop . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm meant to be dead , pinned . |
| 9 | I 'm meant to be calm ? |
| 10 | Well I 'm meant to be funny darling . |
| 11 | I 'm meant to be fair ? |
| 12 | I 'm known to be keen to earn extra money on overtime , so I volunteer for everything and I get most of it because wait for it — I am prized ! |
| 13 | Not because I was made to be late , but I , I , I , I 'd , me mother had made me cos she said you got ta come home to your dinner and there was no buses there were trams in them days , but I 'd got to get into the town . |
| 14 | I saw that I was intended to be subject to people like these two , was doomed to marry Syl as surely as I had been born of my mother . |
| 15 | It did n't bother me , I knew I was engaged to be married , and in those days as soon as you were going to be married you left your job … that is the only thing we girls had to look forward to , getting married and going on our own , getting our bottom drawer together and things like that … |
| 16 | I was engaged to be married once , an engagement that was a mistake and I was lucky to get out of without too much trouble and then I met you and that is the sum total of my ‘ sexual demands ’ as you put it . |
| 17 | The date to remember is Friday , July 17 , when I was honoured to be present at its rebirth , so to speak . |
| 18 | I was asked to be discreet as the lady in question , a possible grand-daughter living on the island , was of affluent mien and might not like to be reminded of her origins . |
| 19 | I was asked to be discreet . |
| 20 | Just as Sgt Wilson 's thesis was channelled to me because I was known to be interested in research , so many police research departments now get allocated the task of reading the essays submitted by sergeants and inspectors for NEBS or DMS qualifications . |
| 21 | ‘ I was gratified to be able to answer promptly , and I did . |
| 22 | ‘ When I was at home , I was expected to be submissive , obedient and totally dependent on my parents . |
| 23 | Have you ever said , ‘ I think I was meant to be big ’ or ‘ I only have to look at a cream cake and I gain 2 lbs ( 0.9kg ) ’ or ‘ I ca n't diet ’ ? |
| 24 | ‘ I was hired to be social , ’ Karen says . |
| 25 | And I was sponsored to be bored to death by a friend , who talked to me non-stop for three hours . ’ |
| 26 | I mean , he is n't run of the mill , is he ? … and I thought any lady friend of his was bound to be unusual . ’ |
| 27 | Ten miles away at Ludlow you are bound to be impressed by its looming castle , the delightful mixture of Georgian and medieval architecture and the interesting museum of local history . |
| 28 | But you are expected to be competent with such material even if you feel this is not what you would eventually choose to work with . |
| 29 | More generally , the fact that literary studies is sometimes thought of as a general training in thinking and writing means that you are expected to be able to control how you write — in particular , that you are able consistently to use a particular appropriate register . |
| 30 | ‘ Miss Honey tells me that you are meant to be clever , too ! |