Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank God no more by me needs to be said . |
| 2 | Generally speaking , people in this room are sitting around relaxing ; they are n't bustling about generating their own heat so the atmosphere around them needs to be kept at a comfortable temperature . |
| 3 | First among them has to be Hugh Laurie 's facial interpretation of Bertie , now brought to a fine pitch of eye-popping , open-mouthed imbecility . |
| 4 | But our attitude towards them has to be based on the understanding that they want to transform us into a different party — a party which could never win , and might well not deserve to win , against a Conservative government which itself embraces the social market . |
| 5 | So if he finds himself behaving very differently in school to how he behaves at home , one of them has to be ‘ real ’ and the other ‘ phoney ’ . |
| 6 | They can be as immodest and as positive as you like — although the risk of being embarrassed if other people find them has to be taken into account . |
| 7 | Moreover , while these analyses are useful in clarifying relationships the underlying explanation of them has to be sought in the factors surveyed by other chapters . |
| 8 | Only about a third of them has to be what you really call meat . |
| 9 | Only about a third of them has to be what you 'd really call meat , and quite a lot of them had an enormous amount of fat in them . |
| 10 | I hope you like its new look and find its approach to yours needs to be equally professional . |
| 11 | ‘ I was interested in how a mind works that is as analytical and calculating as his seems to be . ’ |
| 12 | Would n't you agree that in normal day to day language if we see a line of cars going down a road and one of them happens to be a Rolls Royce we would say , that 's the quality car ? |
| 13 | I ai n't one of them niggers to be sold like they used to at the Trow . ’ |
| 14 | It is important that the senior management is briefed to be as open as possible at such meetings , otherwise the value of them tends to be diminished . |
| 15 | She longs to be wanted and loved , and can share affection . |
| 16 | ‘ But she hates to be confined . |
| 17 | When , after his assaults on her , she begs to be allowed to leave , her instinctive feeling for him makes her provide him with some hope of her return , or at least of their future communication . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps you were the sun for your little dragon ; and now she is strong enough , she wants to be free . ’ |
| 19 | The new Eve momentarily wants to be a tragedy queen ; for a few flickering instants , she wants to be like almost ali the characters in literature whom we find most beguiling — Cleopatra , Anna Karenin , Madame Bovary , Eve herself in Paradise Lost — a figure who has risked everything for the sake of une grande passion . |
| 20 | What I ca n't understand is who she thanks when she wants to be thankful , for example when her son was born . |
| 21 | ‘ Madonna can be as big an actress as she wants to be , ’ says Ed O'Ross . |
| 22 | Well , I think at first they were both afraid to become music specialists , but she knows so much now — good contemporary pop music , not just my music — that she wants to be involved with it and she refuses to be professionally involved unless she has expert knowledge . |
| 23 | Joanne , now 17 and doing A-levels — she wants to be a doctor — still vaguely remembers Dohti and , according to her mother , keeps an open mind on the subject of reincarnation . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , its been a strain — I did n't mind at first because she 'd stay down at her flat for short periods of time , but obviously as her memory 's got worse she does n't realise that she 's got a flat , and the only thing she knows is in here , and this is the only place she wants to be — here . |
| 25 | If an elderly parent is giving up her home to move into yours it can be a very traumatic experience for her , even though you are ‘ family ’ and she wants to be with you . |
| 26 | She wants to be known as a workhorse and not a clothes horse . |
| 27 | ‘ She wants to be perfect for Don , ’ said the friend . |
| 28 | She wants to be able to go ahead with their plans for a family even if he dies . |
| 29 | Once a woman has decided what and who she wants to be , it is for the men in her life , if there are any , to re-educate themselves to take account of her . |
| 30 | Acceptance , dependence or rejection will therefore be inextricably tied in with the preservation of areas of activity which have given self-esteem , which are associated with a particular role function , which confirm the old person as the sort of person he or she wants to be . |