Example sentences of "[adv] she be [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she was meaning to be sympathetic . |
| 2 | But elsewhere she is seen to be ‘ black ’ in more than one sense . |
| 3 | Luke Calder was getting under her skin , and unless she acted quickly she was going to be in serious trouble . |
| 4 | She did n't know ; all she knew was that she adored him more than before and she wanted him more desperately , therefore inevitably she was going to be more hurt than the first time . |
| 5 | But now she is wanting to be home . |
| 6 | Now she 's training to be a teacher . |
| 7 | Now she was going to be nasty . |
| 8 | Well she 's meant to be a real bitch anyway . |
| 9 | She 'd hate to be thought of as a seer , but maybe she is destined to be a figure like Morrissey or Ian Curtis , someone whose vision of adolescence comes to represent all our experience . |
| 10 | ‘ Then she was asked to be the local carnival queen . |
| 11 | If she was going to be devoured , well then She was going to be devoured . |
| 12 | Now that she can see again she is proving to be a handful of trouble . ’ |
| 13 | Either she was a Madonna and people did n't give her credit for being one , or else she was trying to be one and people were trying to stop her or possibly she was being forced to be one against her better judgement . |