Example sentences of "[vb past] be [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If the sums he mentioned are to be believed , it puts a most terrible responsibility on my shoulders . ’ |
| 2 | The components used were to be 1 litre of Siporax , plastic media ( Flocor ) and open cell foam . |
| 3 | The capital cost is to be financed from a local property tax . |
| 4 | As the number of Neons added was to be quite high , I decided to add them alone . |
| 5 | The Eye Hospital was entering a team for the 10-mile ‘ fun run ’ to be held on 24th September and all monies raised were to be given to the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association . |
| 6 | The last thing she needed was to be up in front of the stewards again . |
| 7 | The head stressed that what Balbinder needed was to be in a small group , not in a class of twenty-three . |
| 8 | The last thing she needed was to be trapped in a broken-down vehicle with Piers Morrison . |
| 9 | The last thing in the world she needed was to be attracted to the man who had been Elise 's lover — even if he were n't already engaged in a live-in relationship with another woman ! |
| 10 | The last thing she needed was to be found trespassing in the Baron 's private grounds . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm hoping to see something of Czechoslovakia while I 'm here , ’ she replied , but as it suddenly struck her that the silence emanating from Ven Gajdusek was decidedly chilly — and since the last thing she needed was to be bad friends with him if he objected to Lubor Ondrus flirting with her on his time , ‘ But now I must return to my hotel , ’ she added . |
| 12 | The new man was soon in contact with Hardwick , who travelled to Stockport to discuss fittings for the School and who presented on 26th July what he probably thought was to be his final report , |
| 13 | Suddenly the only thing that mattered was to be home , safe , away from all this noise , this heat , the perpetual anguish . |
| 14 | None of the schemes Curzon feared was to be accomplished . |
| 15 | The need , he felt was to be realistic ; idealism was all very well , but what is necessary is a practical programme based upon mutual self-interest . |
| 16 | He seemed to answer every question I had ever asked and to have lived a life far above everything I knew was to be aimed at . |
| 17 | I went and sat in a field and experienced that great bubbling up of love for the Father and for Jesus which I expressed alternately in English and in this new language which I did not understand but which I knew was to be addressed to God and which built me up as I used it . |
| 18 | They had never even tried it until she had first seen Alain and now it seemed that every step she took was to be supervised . |
| 19 | In every way , Henry V acted as if all that he did was to be lasting in its effects . |
| 20 | In spite of which , the impression they gave was of being identical , and it was left to the owners to give their property whatever signs of individuality they could , by making neat little gardens , or by not doing so , by cleaning the windows once a month , or by not doing so . |
| 21 | How thrilled the girl had been to be going to the Holy City , how lovely she had looked in a jacket of scarlet silk , a birthday present given only the day before by Mrs Browning , how she had glowed and shivered with anticipation … |
| 22 | My one ambition had been to be a pro , and I got to ten handicap . |
| 23 | Alain did not know what a shock it had been to be dragged up those stairs and to find a room like a small time capsule , the very essence of the man she had not known still lingering there . |
| 24 | At first it had been like being spied on , but now she forgot them most of the time , except when she wanted to do something she should n't . |
| 25 | What she had been after was a specified date and time . |
| 26 | Had be to be up at quarter to eight . |
| 27 | The last time the hon. Member for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) expressed his concerns , he gave a list of our programmes which he said were to be destroyed and eliminated . |
| 28 | The tercentenary of the church in Cambridge where we met was to be held in June that year , and we looked forward eagerly to that reunion , and to another reunion in May with friends in the Lake District . |
| 29 | The last thing I expected was to be woken from unconsciousness by an air hostess with the face of an angel , gently patting on my shoulder and telling me that the plane had just landed in Miami . |
| 30 | And all thanks I got was to be sacked at end of summer — though only for a few months , that is , 'cos of the revolution . |