Example sentences of "and [pron] [be] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was worried about that and er I think that 's because it 's a German system and everyone is assumed to be over six feet anyway or six feet wide or something . |
| 2 | I am delighted that he has chosen to introduce a Bill on nurse prescribing and I am honoured to be associated with it as one of its sponsors . |
| 3 | Do n't forget that for tonight at least you and I are meant to be lovers . ’ |
| 4 | And I 'm meant to be on holiday . |
| 5 | The satisfaction with which the new prayer book was received and used quickly resulted in a request that the Burmese hymn book should be revised and enlarged , and I was asked to be the editor and secretary of the small revision committee . |
| 6 | Anyway this boy and I was judged to be the most original and the best you see . |
| 7 | Fun Fortnight had claimed another victim and I was forced to be game for a laugh and work in a joke shop . |
| 8 | Fun Fortnight had claimed another victim and I was forced to be game for a laugh and work in a joke shop . |
| 9 | and I was meant to be taking it in today , but I forgot and so I just |
| 10 | And I was sponsored to be bored to death by a friend , who talked to me non-stop for three hours . ’ |
| 11 | When I refer to the ‘ Popular Purgatory ’ I am referring to the Purgatory which is most widely known — the place referred to in Roman Catholic teaching and which is said to be arrived at after death . |
| 12 | All schools could identify additional resources , ( for instance , computers , a music laboratory , enhanced INSET , staff ) that had been purchased and which were perceived to be available entirely as a result of devolution . |
| 13 | This term was reserved for the rural dialects , which had been legitimized by nineteenth-century investigations , and which were believed to be ‘ genuine ’ in a way that urban dialects are not . |
| 14 | The decisions , tantamount to a significant downgrading of COMECON ( as also indicated by a sharp staff reduction at the Moscow secretariat ) , and which were expected to be approved at a future summit meeting , were the outcome of an undertaking made at the summit meeting in January [ see p. 37202 ] to review existing COMECON arrangements to allow for the wider operation of market principles . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 — ? ’ |
| 16 | Okay , and you 're asked to be erm in the lec sorry in the er great hall at five o'clock if you possibly can , okay ? |
| 17 | The last week 's rehearsal has been a virtual write-off , and you 're meant to be facing a preview audience on Monday . ’ |
| 18 | People who are used to having responsible jobs at home or in the office and who are known to be good managers and organizers can not understand why suddenly the simplest task seems to be beyond them , and this makes them feel out of control and very unsafe . |
| 19 | In particular Amer Midani , the United director who has a 15 per cent holding and who is believed to be waiting to buy Edwards 's stake . |
| 20 | From August onwards the newspapers were over-flowing with the exploits of the various gangs in London : the ‘ Lion Boys ’ from the Lion and Lamb in Clerkenwell ; the so-called ‘ Clerkenwell ‘ pistol Gang' ’ ’ ; the ‘ Girdle Gang ’ which took its name from Thomas , alias ‘ Tuxy ’ , Girdle ; the ‘ Somers Town Gang ’ who were said to be the pests of Euston Road and Gower Street ; the ‘ Pinus Gang ’ who infested Leather Lane and Clerkenwell ; the ‘ Drury Lane Boys ’ ; the notorious ‘ Waterloo Road Gang ’ ; the ‘ Pickett Gang ’ ; , ‘ McNab 's ’ ; the ‘ Rest Gang ’ ; the ‘ Fulham Boys ’ ; the ‘ Chelsea Boys ’ ; the ‘ Velvet Cap Gang ’ ; the ‘ Plaid-Cap Brigade ’ from Poplar ; the gangs who romped around King Street and Great Church Lane in Hammersmith and who were said to be ‘ not ‘ Hooligans ’ ’ but worse' ; and many others , including a band of youngsters who had adopted the dare-devil title of the ‘ Dick Turpin Gang ’ . |
| 21 | Table VI summarises the number of subjects in each subgroup who were accepted for respite and day sitting services and who were found to be eligible for the mobility and attendance allowances before and after the interview . |
| 22 | Macnab went on holiday to Berlin with a letter from Joyce to Christian Bauer , a contact whom they had made in London and who was said to be on good terms with Goebbels . |
| 23 | On Oct. 29 , however , Kim declared that he would not enter the contest , leading to speculation that he had bowed to pressure from Roh , whose administration had worked closely with Daewoo and who was known to be concerned that Kim 's intervention could split the conservative vote and thereby allow Kim Dae Jung to win the election . |
| 24 | It mentioned that he lived with his mother , Lady Ursula Berowne , and his second wife in one of the few extant houses built by Sir John Soane and that he had one child by his first marriage , 24-year-old Sarah Berowne , who was active in left-wing politics and who was thought to be estranged from her father . |
| 25 | Her owner claims she probably wants to exercise to shed a few ounces.Pets should be safe as Thumper s not been trained to hunt and she 's refused to be tempted down with titbits . |
| 26 | And she 's meant to be here . |
| 27 | Needless to say , he fails , and she is condemned to be executed . |
| 28 | Yet , while the pregnancy might have been unplanned and she was destined to be a single parent , termination had never once been considered . |
| 29 | She also did a lucrative sideline in stolen goods and peddled information to the Dublin underworld , and she was reputed to be one of the most powerful and certainly one of the richest women in Dublin . |
| 30 | She 'd only been at school 2 months and she was found to be blind . |