Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [be] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I am referring to is elementary structural-functionalist sociology , in which modernization is seen as a process of structural differentiation ( Ausdifferenzierung ) . |
| 2 | Actually , I have n't decided what I 'm going to be doing with Pickerage on Sunday . |
| 3 | ‘ My mother was a virgin on her wedding night , and that 's what I 'm going to be , ’ she said firmly . |
| 4 | So I make appointments with myself , where I 've got , you 'll see there , eight days where for two hours that 's what I 'm going to be doing . |
| 5 | It 's what I was born to be . |
| 6 | And what I was going to be getting for myself at some stage cos I 'd like to do the rest of the curtains myself . |
| 7 | As soon as my mother saw the train on its way , we took the renowned Edinburgh cable car to a photographer at Piershill to have my very first picture taken , which was a shouted instruction as my father disappeared into the darkness of a Princes Street tunnel and the acrid smoke of what I was told to be a " Puffing Billy " . |
| 8 | I 've just asked Kurt whether the heroin rumours are true — to which he 's laughed , said ‘ No ! ’ and made me feel his arms for any tell-tale scars or holes , though obviously shooting up is n't the only way to take smack and to be honest I 'm not sure I knew what I was meant to be looking for , but still , it 's an impressive gesture at the very least — when Anton walks in with a woman I recognise as Susan Silver , manager of Soundgarden . |
| 9 | But ‘ at some point in the future ’ , she wants to become again what she is trained to be — a general paediatrician , work that would inevitably involve dealing with child abuse . |
| 10 | Seemingly unrestrained by their director , his principals , Juliette Binoche and Jeremy Irons , indulge in a perfect orgy of , in actor-speak , ‘ playing the result ’ : their first meeting , before they are even introduced , is a wild farrago of fish-like glances , tortured swallowing and interminable silences , and Malle follows suit , equipping his female lead with a get-up — black leather , gloves , fags , sunglasses , four-inch heels and an Eton crop to make a Brazilian transvestite blink , never mind a research assistant at Sotheby 's , which is what she is meant to be . |
| 11 | Rob said it was appropriate , since that was what she was going to be . |
| 12 | ‘ Along , no doubt , with such minor matters as pay , rations , scope of your responsibilities and what you are going to be called . |
| 13 | He fields a steady stream of enquiries , not only from visitors — ‘ You never know what you are going to be asked next ’ — but from the growing number of researchers aware of his expertise and experience . |
| 14 | when you know more about what you 're expecting to be told it 's easier to remember it . |
| 15 | That is what you 're born to be . ’ |
| 16 | The next questionnaire is designed to help you look at your work and get clear in your head what you 're meant to be doing and how . |
| 17 | So it 's to be clear in what you 're saying to be able to explain yourself clearly so it 's about clarity |
| 18 | Do you know what you 're going to be doing in five years time ? |
| 19 | The sixty five who said no does it worry you that you do n't know or is that quite exciting that you do n't know what you 're going to be doing ? |
| 20 | I know what you 're going to be like when you 're old , Robert . ’ |
| 21 | Right , let's summarize where we 've got to , and what you 're going to be doing . |
| 22 | Particularly if you 're involved in different activities , different project work , colour coding because it appeals to the right side of your brain , erm , whereas a lot of what you 're going to be doing , I assume , is going to be fairly brained activity , erm , could , could work very well for you . |
| 23 | So , that 's what you 're going to be getting |
| 24 | You know I said to her I said it 's not what you 're used to is it ? |
| 25 | And I have spent all morning saying it can not possibly be true , that you devote all your time to your aunt , that you have scarcely left the house in over a month and all the time you were doing just what you were rumoured to be doing ! |
| 26 | ‘ I think , ’ Doyle murmured , ‘ that you have forgotten what you were meant to be doing . ’ |
| 27 | SERAFIN : If by ‘ silly ’ you mean ‘ simple-minded ’ , then take heart , because simple-minded is what we are struggling to be . |
| 28 | What we are going to be doing is trying to explain that series , right that er consumption series . |
| 29 | right so if you er draw a make sure you have got at least half a page , right , you are going to be drawing two quite familiar diagrams , right , you er , first of all just draw a normal total product curve , what we are going to do , because we are looking at a fixed level of output , sorry fixed level of capital what we are going to be analysing is the relationships between the total product of labour , the average product of labour , and the marginal product of labour , right , for a given level of capital okay , so the total product curve just tells us what happens to output as we increase the level of our variable factor labour keeping capital fixed at some constant constant level |
| 30 | It 's just that what we 're going to be doing for the next few weeks means you 're going to have to be very open with me , and Quincx to a degree . |