Example sentences of "[pron] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At length she asked , ‘ Am I to be content with that snippet of intelligence : ‘ Sir George likes me ’ ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Am I to be weaponless again ? ’ said Hrun . |
| 3 | Indeed , he even reveals that he has recovered from a bout of depression : ‘ What right have I to be depressed ? |
| 4 | Who am I to be merciful ? |
| 5 | Ought I to be fearful for my life ? ’ |
| 6 | Am I to be interested in you or not ? ’ |
| 7 | In it we know ourselves to be rational agents detached from spontaneity , judging on objective grounds what will serve our ends . |
| 8 | Not many of us consider ourselves to be good listeners . |
| 9 | It was easy , when we were predominantly discussing philosophy , to link farm animal welfare and protection of the environment , in so far as they are both concerned with what qualifies us to consider ourselves to be good people . |
| 10 | It is not that in desperate circumstances we discover ourselves to be natural egoists and throw off moral restraints , it is rather that morality no longer applies . |
| 11 | In other words , we have allowed ourselves to be brain-washed into avoiding any interpretation of the past that involves extreme and what might be termed " catastrophic " processes . |
| 12 | And how have you fi I think we 're gon na end up like with a fire like yours to be honest , because we do n't want to alter that fireplace if we can help it |
| 13 | They say they just want someone to be accountable for the death of their daughter . |
| 14 | We support and accept the good sense of increasing sentences for offences that are worse than taking and driving away and of extending the deterrent of disqualification where personal injury and damage occurs , but it is quite another thing for someone to be guilty of additional offences that he does not commit , to which he is not a party and which he might not have foreseen as the likely consequences of his taking and driving away . |
| 15 | Women doing long sentences are obviously going to try and find someone to be close to . |
| 16 | Also , you may want someone to be able to see base figures and a final result , but not the devious manipulations you have performed on the route twixt the two . |
| 17 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
| 18 | Someone to be scared of . |
| 19 | Now , ( iii ) for someone to be entitled to say that something is the case he must have some basis for what he says . |
| 20 | WILD SCANDINAVIAN seeks someone to be wild with ! |
| 21 | Now there is nothing wrong with this argument as it stands , but it is weak ; it assumes that there are other minds than our own , and argues only that we may be mistaken about their states , thinking someone to be happy when she is really sad , etc . |
| 22 | There was another small mercy for which to be grateful . |
| 23 | A gene , for purposes of the theory , is a segment of genetic material divided off as best suits the investigator , who needs a unit small enough to be treated as identical through successive generations ; it has no self with which to be selfish . |
| 24 | Which to be honest , a lot of people do not understand . |
| 25 | The Government have a great deal of which to be proud in their record since 1979 . |
| 26 | Now I have to tell you that last year we raised a hundred and thirteen million pounds and of that over ninety per cent , that 's a hundred and four million pounds were actually spent on projects for children and I 'm very proud of that ratio indeed and I think it ought to give you , the raisers of money , a great deal of comfort because for a fund with two headquarters buildings which operates all over the world this is a distribution of funds of which to be proud . |
| 27 | The Gallup survey , commissioned by the Daily Telegraph , also found that more than a third could not think of a single thing about Britain of which to be proud . |
| 28 | For a host of reasons , the nation today has much for which to be thankful . |
| 29 | All year , as each season reveals its particular joy , there is so much for which to be thankful . |
| 30 | ‘ That is surely something for which to be thankful . ’ |