Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] to [be] " in BNC.

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1 Foreign communities , whether tribal or otherwise , are no more anxious than you or I to be subjected to intensive and embarrassingly close scrutiny by a tiresome stranger whose aims and intentions may be , to say the least , puzzling .
2 Yes , because it 'll be nice , us , it 's , I mean they , abode there is a lot oth , there is , there is a lot of other work now , there prisoner are prisoner of is still fairly central is n't it , he or she to be , to be er , the work we do .
3 Broadly speaking , the higher a person is in the management structure , the more essential it is for him or her to be given work when it is available .
4 If you already know that your child has HIV , it will be important for him or her to be seen regularly by a doctor who understands HIV in children and for the doctor to be kept informed about any changes in your child 's condition .
5 There comes a time when it is not in the best interests of the Company nor in the best interests of the employed for him or her to be protected in any way from the full consequences of addictive disease .
6 So , the situation in that is quite serious and it behoves us to take it seriously , it behoves us to make sure that if we are putting resources of that magnitude or of any magnitude perhaps , then we have to make sure that they are managed properly for the effective delivery of the services which we intend er that them to be used for .
7 no one was more surprised than me to be
8 God has called you and me to be members of His church .
9 You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility
10 And I to be a corporal of his field ,
11 Nevertheless , it clearly would n't do for Karen and I to be seen together immediately afterwards .
12 Well we were up there one time er at the Lothian region and we to be up and tell that this was imposing higher things on , higher prices on both the bus buses , because they were raising the bus fares at the same time , and they were increasing the lunch club .
13 Telling us all how we would have to adapt in various minor ways to changing circumstances , but that basically our lives would carry on very much as normal — and it was weird , I was wanting them all to believe him , and him to be telling the truth .
14 All are keeping quiet about it , supposing it to be some reflection on themselves .
15 From this you can trace your statute in the main work , supposing it to be there .
16 But you to be on one of them in n it ?
17 The British Medical Association refused to consider family planning at its meetings from 1912 to 1928 , considering it to be tainted by association with vice and radicalism .
18 The haste , perhaps , and the diffidence both , were encouraged by his wife , who did not like him to talk of Trade , considering it to be vulgar , and yet she was pleased to note that this casual reference to wealth met with a satisfactory , if silent , response .
19 At that stage , despite a fine art training , she had abandoned painting , considering it to be overloaded with ( patriarchal ) meaning .
20 However , the largest nationalist organization of Ukraine , Rukh , voted on Aug. 1 not to take part in the congress , considering it to be too moderate in its opposition to the current regime .
21 The general rule , however , is that for you to be justified in ending the relationship , the breach of contract must in itself be serious .
22 Dear love , I get plenty of time to think about us these days , and I 'm more than ever grateful that I have been given such a wonderful person as you to be my wife .
23 He knew exactly why the Curator had asked him in to see the eagle — a most unusual thing for someone as unimportant as him to be called in personally in this way .
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