Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Middle Ages , when the French adjudged them to be alien , difficult and heathen , they were held to have descended from Scotsmen transported to Spain by Julius Caesar . |
| 2 | ‘ They expected me to be a lawyer too . |
| 3 | What I discovered at this point , was that they , my Thai co-workers , also expected me to be the teacher for this newly organised project ! |
| 4 | She expected them to be ready , mounted , properly turned out and willing . |
| 5 | She would cook them all a good breakfast and make it clear that she expected them to be at the table on time . |
| 6 | The danger is that they might turn out to be entirely different from how you expected them to be . |
| 7 | He also advocated the appointment of prison inspectors and made it clear that he expected them to be as thorough as he himself had been , probing every corner and speaking with every prisoner . |
| 8 | After the heavy rains of the past days I expected them to be full , and they were , a lot fuller than when I had seen them the year before . |
| 9 | Hunter , Joyce , and Redruth were told what was happening , and were less surprised that we expected them to be . |
| 10 | But EMAP said yesterday that by cutting overheads , it expected them to be profitable this year . |
| 11 | Clearly , parents generally must welcome the news that cuddling is not only nice but necessary ; perhaps , however , we should spare a compassionate thought once more for the intellectual mothers of the thirties , whose sufferings as they tried to be ‘ good ’ mothers are now repeated in the knowledge that all their efforts only led them to be ‘ bad ’ mothers : as one of our correspondents added , ‘ Here is Bowlby , still out to make us feel guilty — about our rejection of the children we loved but were not allowed to love . ’ |
| 12 | The employers " interests led them to be " nationalist " , arguing that to safeguard their share of the market and to maintain the Scottish capital as a printing centre , they had to keep down costs , or go out of business . |
| 13 | I met the guys , loved the songs and they asked me to be their agent . |
| 14 | " Sam here 's just been an' asked me to be his wife , " she said . |
| 15 | He asked me to be friends again , but I could n't forgive him . |
| 16 | ‘ Nahum 's asked me to be his best man … |
| 17 | At noon Sir Michael Adeane rang up and asked me to be at the Palace at 2 o'clock . |
| 18 | But a few sidelong glances revealed them to be He-Shes . |
| 19 | Tests on the items at the Oxford research laboratory for art and archaeology revealed them to be modern . |
| 20 | Although tattered and torn , their clothing revealed them to be citizens of late twentieth century Earth . |
| 21 | In particular she disliked men , because her political analysis revealed them to be oppressors , and responsible as a sex for many of the worst aspects of our civilization ( war , the arms race , the stock exchange , rape , science , motor cars , additives to food , defoliants , hospital management of childbirth , competitions , multinational companies , cosmetics , pornography and vivisection ) . |
| 22 | Although the countries of the European Free Trade Association had worked out trade arrangements with the Community , recent decisions of the European Court ruled them to be incompatible with the treaty of Rome . |
| 23 | The Germans killed six million and a few years later we invited them to be our guests over here ? |
| 24 | She invited them to be seated and offered them a drink . |
| 25 | They were sighted in China , where those who attempted to eat them reported them to be tasteless or unpleasant . |
| 26 | Dudek flicked over the pages , found them to be a little better , but still somewhat hum-drum . |
| 27 | I found them to be cheerful , reassuring old men , and delightful conversationalists . |
| 28 | R. scotica was noted by Miller as the ‘ Burnet-leaved rose with a livid red flower ’ and , having had dried specimens of R. alpina sent to him from Italy , he found them to be exactly the same . |
| 29 | Li and her coworkers have been able to locate these sequence variations ( which geneticists have identified in amino acid sequences as important for target specificity ) in the three-dimensional structure of the toxin , and found them to be concentrated in the β sheets of domain II . |
| 30 | The more usual situation is where payment is ‘ at sight ’ meaning when the paying bank has examined the documents and found them to be in order or at a determinable future date — for example ‘ 90 days sight ’ meaning that payment will be made to the exporter 90 days after the paying bank has examined the documents . |