Example sentences of "[adj] to [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm a violinist now , I 'm free to be that . |
| 2 | And death number one looked set to be that of Albert Roger Quigley . |
| 3 | Even though Jones eventually fell , mis-hooking Pringle just before tea , after 3½ hours of defiance , the last session looked set to be little more than batting practice for the home side . |
| 4 | TMAM is now open daily from February to November and 1993 looks set to be another important year in its history . |
| 5 | I do believe fervently that no man is fit to be any man 's master ; that an uncontrolled capacity to amass wealth is thoroughly wrong ; that the class system , particularly in relation to education , needs urgent change ; that it is right and proper and sensible to be an enthusiastic European and that much nonsense is talked about the alleged loss of sovereignty . |
| 6 | It was hard to be all sweetness and light when she was desperately trying to catch up with her own quarry before McKenna did . |
| 7 | For example there are supposed to be many wives who would have left their husbands long ago if they had been able to work out how to tell him they were going . |
| 8 | Last Thursday was supposed to be such a practical lesson , but when we got there Mrs Glen told us that we 'd have to carry on with our writing topic . |
| 9 | ‘ According to you , he 's supposed to be such a hard man … ’ |
| 10 | This is not what life is supposed to be all about . |
| 11 | Theridamas is supposed to be all that Persia stands for , even to the extent that he is ‘ the hope of Persia , and the very legs whereon our state doth lean as on a staff ’ . |
| 12 | I thought this was what some of your policy was supposed to be all about . |
| 13 | Oh I was on about sewing cos I said I 'd let them , you know , they were all doing a bit of sewing the other weekend , they all had a go like erm ooh , you know , I was saying he that Scott can cook and that , you know , we 've had a note he 's having one on , supposed to be all all of them to be independent , you know ? |
| 14 | A cruel joke , but then it was supposed to be that . |
| 15 | Whose responsibility or whose , whose supposed to be that is irrelevant , it just needs to be cleared up . |
| 16 | I 'd say there was n't supposed to be any reason to think Harry had gone to Sam 's boatyard . |
| 17 | Well , considering there 's not supposed to be any V A T on kid 's things , I mean |
| 18 | And what , they 're supposed to be half brothers are they ? |
| 19 | I reminded her about the things she said last night — the things you apparently overheard , so you say — and she now realises she was quite wrong to say those things , even if they were supposed to be some kind of joke … and … she is sorry for saying them because she now understands that those careless words of hers were what basically caused the misunderstanding . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Is that supposed to be some consolation ? ’ asked Connon . |
| 21 | Was that supposed to be some kind of sexual allusion ? |
| 22 | Is that supposed to be some safe |
| 23 | That night I felt too sick to be any such thing . |
| 24 | Even then , this is likely to be little more than an insistence that they begin to make some regular contribution to the household in the form of dried fish , tobacco , and so on . |
| 25 | A vaccine against HIV is still likely to be many years away but Dr Michael Murphey-Corb , who led the Tulane team , said he hoped ‘ to see something in five years . ’ |
| 26 | I asked Joyce what aspect of her phobia she felt still remained and she said that she would like to be able to go into an open space such as a park , where there were likely to be many more birds around . |
| 27 | That means that in order to stimulate over a large area the intensity of stimulation at the input site is likely to be many orders of magnitudes in excess of normal levels of electrical or chemical activity . |
| 28 | In the Antarctic stratosphere , the lifetime is likely to be many weeks . |
| 29 | Lyn Nofziger and Lee Atwater took responsibility for stimulating outside pressure on congressmen from fifty-four swing districts — areas of the country where there were likely to be many conservative activists and where the president had run strongly in 1980 . |
| 30 | The cost of making a mistake , however , is likely to be many times greater |