Example sentences of "[pers pn] [am/are] [vb pp] [prep] 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 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Miss Honey tells me that you are meant to be clever , too ! |
| 17 | ‘ You 're determined to be unpleasant . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Besides , you do n't go for redheads , you told me you do n't , and you 're engaged to be married , and what about Ta — ? ’ |
| 19 | Oh well , you 're engaged to be married . |
| 20 | you 're bound to be right . |
| 21 | Even if you 're not a serious d-i-yer , you 're bound to be aware of this clever invention . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're allowed to be gloomy . |
| 23 | ‘ You 're meant to be respectable , you are , ’ she said . |
| 24 | Erm as with many , many parts of the Gospel you 're expected you 're expected to be able to look more deeply than on the surface . |
| 25 | I would say that the criteria that 's that 's sent out at the moment is is far too strict for the lot , a lot of women and at the moment you 're expected to be skeletal , whereas th , you can very well be thirteen stone and anorexic it 's , it depends on your attitude towards food . |
| 26 | We are called to be righteous members of His kingdom , looking to our heavenly King , and being ready to proclaim the Good News by word and deed . |
| 27 | We are invited to be open to the choices each of them represents . |
| 28 | As early as September 1953 Eisenhower was to be found ruminating , " Abroad we and our intentions are suspect because we are known to be big and wealthy , and believed to be impulsive and truculent . " |
| 29 | We are a , an innocent man until we are shown to be guilty . |
| 30 | In Eliot 's poem it is ‘ While the melodious fountain falls ’ that love is made , but we are forced to be conscious of an artifice ‘ ( Carved by the cunning Bolognese ) ’ which suggests that the apparently primitive fertility ritual where ‘ The Adepts twine beneath the trees/ The sacrificial exercise ’ has become a decadent pleasure , rather than a genuine ritual . |