Example sentences of "as [pers pn] be [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was little time for dalliance when we came out from Sunday School as I was expected to be home for tea at half-past four . |
| 2 | One day , as I was waiting to be admitted to the prison , I heard quite a young man talking to the guard in broken but familiar Italian : it sounded like Triestino . |
| 3 | ( I had taken to climbing over the railings of the barracks each night , as the watchmen on the gate had been forbidden to let me in as I was known to be sleeping there . |
| 4 | ‘ As I 'm going to be blamed , I must be cautious . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Well , ’ Mitch said with a considering look , ‘ normally I would say we wanted to be alone tonight , but as I 'm going to be an uncle very soon … ’ |
| 6 | As soon as I 'm going to be interested by what you first said and then where are you going to go to next . |
| 7 | Not everyone is as afraid of them as you 're pretending to be . ’ |
| 8 | Just as you were born to be queen of the pride . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ If you were , as you were hoping to be , her legal custodian , you would be in a very powerful position — and I have reason to fear that you might abuse that power . ’ |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | Angela died just as she was beginning to be more widely accepted . |
| 12 | A short , wiry Lebanese in his fifties , Talar lived aboard a partially finished 81-foot yacht , King Edmondo , with a tall , blonde Danish woman who towered over him and was known locally as ‘ Foofoo ’ , as she was thought to be somewhat strange . |
| 13 | We can confirm that we are satisfied ( as we are required to be under the regulations ) that Growing Business plc may properly be regarded as , using the technical term introduced by the regulations , a ‘ corporate finance client ’ . |
| 14 | Secondly , the more grey scales the scanner can resolve the better as we are going to be trading these against resolution for the best compromise . |
| 15 | As far as Europeans are concerned , they 'll undoubtedly come here , as we are going to be travelling to France and Germany and Italy and wherever , but I think it 's getting the North American tourists convinced that it 's going to be okay here , they 're going to get a value for money holiday . |
| 16 | It does not matter whether the overall burden of tax increases , as long as they are seen to be reducing personal taxation . |
| 17 | At times , it seems to those taking part to resemble a bad dream as they are required to be vigilant in spite of distractions elsewhere caused by other unfinished tasks ! |
| 18 | This is all good news as they are reported to be down in numbers in Oxfordshire this year . |
| 19 | It is a magnificent setting but I do n't like playing music in the open air , and the acoustics there are not perhaps as good as they are claimed to be . |
| 20 | There is a move by many environmental agencies both in Mexico and elsewhere for a return to traditional forms of agriculture , as they are considered to be better for the environment . |
| 21 | The two innermost trees were cut down in 1771 as they were considered to be impoverishing the soil and shading the flowers in the Garden , but the others stood guard by the watergate for another hundred years and no doubt caused interested comment from river travellers . |
| 22 | Jewel Lafontant , the United States co-ordinator for refugee affairs , said on March 16 that the United States would accept half of any new Vietnamese boat people fleeing to Hong Kong , as long as they were considered to be genuine refugees ; only 11 per cent of those as yet screened in the colony had been classified as such . |
| 23 | Things , then , as they were willed to be : |
| 24 | I just thought it was worthwhile making that point as it is made to be very . |
| 25 | Even so , as Lord Atkin pointed out in Bell v Lever Bros Ltd [ 1932 ] AC 161 ( at p218 ) , a contract may be set aside for mistake as to the quality of the goods if " it is the mistake of both parties , and is as to the existence of some quality which makes the thing without the quality essentially different from the thing as it is believed to be " . |
| 26 | Now , the constitution as it " really " is , as it is said to be , and as it is said it should be , only really line up in times of political ( and therefore constitutional ) stability when there is agreement on clear and simple constitutional fundamentals . |
| 27 | There has been a failure to see constitutional theory and political practice as in dynamic interaction each with the other ; there has been a failure to recognise that interpretations of the constitution are always relative to time , place , and our position as observers ; and so there has been the simple view that the constitutional set-up as it is , as it is said to be , and as it is said it should be , have all been as of one . |
| 28 | Such an awareness is , as it is designed to be , a training for life itself . |
| 29 | She has redpointed Ceuse 's Vagabone , which is an excellent effort , especially as it is considered to be more difficult for those of limited height . |
| 30 | The main points arising from this are that : ( 1 ) the vowel system is totally different from mainstream British English in terms of vowel-length , vowel-height , diphthongization and other properties ( for example , vowel-length is not usually contrastive , as it is alleged to be in RP , and so most vowel-phonemes , such as /e/ , as in gate , save , are realized as considerably longer or shorter allophones according to consonantal environment ) ; ( 2 ) allophones of phonemes can overlap phonetically with allophones of other phonemes in a manner that is not permitted by classical phoneme theory ( Bloomfield , 1933 ) ; ( 3 ) lexical items do not necessarily belong to the same vowel phoneme classes as they do in RP and SBE ( for example , whereas good and food have different vowels in most SBE , they have the same vowel in Ulster English ) ; and ( 4 ) many sets of lexical items exhibit vowel alternations , in that the vowels in these items are realizations of two different phonemes . |