Example sentences of "because [pers pn] be [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the time I 'm either bingeing ( in secret ) or doing loads of exercise ; I really feel desperate to lose weight because I 'm going to be a bridesmaid soon , and I do n't want to look like a splodge at my brother 's wedding . |
| 2 | ‘ I shall know what to do because I 'm going to be a bridesmaid next year , ’ Tory confided in a diminishing whisper . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ That 's too bad , Claudia , because I 'm going to be your second skin until you lead me to Garry . ’ |
| 4 | That 's because I 'm going to be defeated ! ’ |
| 5 | I do n't need the Chief Executive to tell me what 's happening because I 'm going to be involved in seeing what 's happening and as far as the Labour people talking about the cost it 's going to create . |
| 6 | ‘ Watch your back , Aurora , because I 'm going to be behind you when you least expect it . |
| 7 | And the , the importance of that for me , that shows me the shape of the month , so there 's nowhere I 'm going to be on the tenth other than my office , because I 'm going to be out for the rest of the week . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As I was saying to you the other day , laddie , because I was aiming to be a fighting man I would n't get married . |
| 10 | They said I had to lie down for two hours because I was going to be groggy , but I thought Fred would be worried . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | That is the signal to get the diary ready because you are going to be asked to speak at a dinner . |
| 13 | You 're going on a freebie to the Tate because you 're going to be our guide . |
| 14 | In that era , notes Forster , if you had ‘ Venetian ’ tendencies , you thought it was because you were meant to be a man and that there had been some mistake . |
| 15 | This points to Eleanor of Provence , Edward 's mother and consort of Henry III , whose reputation is as bad as that of Eleanor of Castile is good — though not for David Gordon , who seems to think that because she 's said to be ‘ of Provence ’ , this puts her above suspicion . |
| 16 | Again , the suggestion has been made that in cases where a woman 's SB is withdrawn because she is found/thought to be cohabiting , a ‘ tiding over ’ allowance should be made to ease the adjustment . |
| 17 | The two sets of carers who were not content with the institutionalisation decision were : the male friend of a single woman who said it had been a pleasure to visit her daily and help look after her ; after five months she was admitted to hospital under a guardianship order because she was felt to be at risk . |
| 18 | Two medical practitioners , neither of whom previously knew the patient , recommended her detention in hospital because she was said to be a paranoid schizophrenic with signs of aggressive , overactive and irrational behaviour . |
| 19 | Purification The mother had to be purified because she was considered to be unclean . |
| 20 | You 'd all decided to meet again the following week and she counted the days because she was longing to be with you again . |
| 21 | Mostly , he supposed , he was happy because she was going to be the most startling singer he had put on to the Hochhauser stage . |
| 22 | ‘ And I love you , my beautiful Ruthie , and you 'll never run from my love again because we are going to be married , as soon as possible , and Majorcan wives never leave their husbands . |
| 23 | 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 . " |
| 24 | at the minute because we 're going to be having a new one here anyway . |
| 25 | There seemed to be a great urgency to get married , to live in London and start a family because we were trying to be the same as everyone else . |
| 26 | Now most of the forms in this pack you can put in the storage binder because they 're going to be absolutely useless for you . |
| 27 | The issue is not whether such factors will in some way be represented , because they are bound to be , but whether they are in pedagogic focus . |
| 28 | Male carers are often omitted from detailed study because they are seen to be unimportant or assumed to be so few in number . |
| 29 | The consequence of this is that women are feared because they are seen to be sexually aggressive , and relations with men are spoiled because a close tie to them , which might otherwise constitute a conflict-free alternative nevertheless connotes a parallel threat of passive dependency . |
| 30 | I have to say though that it 's usually very embarrassing to see a group of professional dancers dancing in a club — because they are trained to be self-conscious , they ca n't let go of themselves . |