Example sentences of "[prep] be [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assertion that a trust is valid because a testator wants it to be is misleading . |
| 2 | Ala I want my writing to be is modest , restrained , colourful , truthful … . |
| 3 | What you do have to be is neat , your labelling is in pen , your drawing is in ? |
| 4 | We wish also to persuade him that once he takes fully into account that his ultimate goals are spontaneous ( are , not ought to be ; what they ought to be is intelligent as well as spontaneous ) , he will require no first principle other than ‘ Be aware ’ for choosing between them . |
| 5 | This is not an acid test , far less a self-evident one , but , as I have tried to show , contenders that profess to be are sure to fail . |
| 6 | Sometimes it may be appropriate to support the child who appears to be being facetious : " People often laugh when things are really difficult — maybe it would help us make the decision if we did something quite different for a little while . " |
| 7 | but I think the other thing is that it 's just a question of the people in our business supposed to be being professional communicators |
| 8 | Furious , and hurt , and quite forgetting she was supposed to be being conciliatory , she demanded , ‘ What was I supposed to do ? |
| 9 | That this was not to be was good news indeed . |