Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps , like Hope , he found an inexplicable access of joy : ‘ I must be alone , ’ he wrote , ‘ if either my imagination or my heart are to be enriched . ’ |
| 2 | I think I went to my sister 's to one of my sisters . |
| 3 | I speak from the heart here , as it so happens that my sister is to be married this month and my mother is trying her hardest to organise the wedding that we ( never mind my sister and fiancé , these things are family affairs ) , want . |
| 4 | ‘ At one time I thought my vocation was to be a surgeon or doctor . |
| 5 | I really needed a rest and my hope was to be fit for the start of the National League programme at the end of September , but I doubt if that will be the case . |
| 6 | The interior of my mind was to be shaped according to his merchandising plan , with circular display racks of concepts standing in aisles of cogitation , flanked by long shelves groaning with brightly coloured little ideas . |
| 7 | During the week , I work in a music shop , and my ambition is to be a professional guitarist . |
| 8 | But now my ambition is to be a full-time writer . ’ |
| 9 | But my words were to no avail . |
| 10 | ‘ Most of my monuments are to the victims of Fascism , to the Partisan movements . |
| 11 | ‘ My liver is to be buried separately from the rest of me , with full honours , ’ he was to say in a later film . |
| 12 | My dream is to be a housewife , perhaps in France or the Canary Islands , where I would n't have to think of work or money and could go on excursions to supermarkets . |
| 13 | My question is to , that er , police officer or to the Chief Constable , or to anybody who can answer , how much is it gon na cost that , for that paper to be produced , and would it not be better spent in putting a police officer in Stratton St Margaret , where there has n't been one on the beat for the last six months , to help us reduce the number of er , of crimes committed in Stratton . |
| 14 | My question was to Mr was designed to throw light on that point . |
| 15 | Well my question was to be erm would your guests be happy to return to a Kuwait the same as it was before , but having listened I feel somewhat enlightened , although perhaps they 'd still like to answer the question in that form . |
| 16 | My aim is to be seriously funny . ’ |
| 17 | The school authorities decided that my diet was to be strictly supervised , and that I should be weighed every week . |
| 18 | What has my reaction been to criticism ? |
| 19 | Er , speaking of accountants , I must tell you that one of the perks of my job is to be able to get out and about in the real world , to real companies , meeting real people . |
| 20 | Oh I mean I I after we after er we may never see look at each other again so my my job is to is to say right I can forward your name to and say look you know er I will make one or two points this guy er needs to be concentrated on , not as an exception , but you know because we 've taken fliers with people before you 've been very successful . |
| 21 | Well certainly my job is to just outline briefly what we do . |
| 22 | And when it started to wind , they 'd bang the coal on , they 'd bang the empties off and my job was to er tt push the empties , split them , split the empties , |
| 23 | But , at fourteen , my job was to er I had to fetch the coal and the sticks , to light the er stove that held the irons , and er they they were er d I I Like I had to go to the coalhouse which was down fourteen steps , the steps were wooden ones , outside the upper floor , where we worked . |
| 24 | And my job was to going round with the keeper and feeding them every morning . |
| 25 | Er by the man who or one of the men who swept the shop and kept it clean and all the the the one of the labourers , that my job was to one of my jobs was to make the tea for the men . |
| 26 | Er my job was to er obtain intelligence on er active , known criminals and also to develop intelligence that had been obtained by other officers . |
| 27 | My back was to the wind which whistled coldly in the wire frame of my spectacles and cracked the loose folds of my robe . |
| 28 | ‘ My service is to mankind . |
| 29 | I concentrate on paddling in time with everyone else but my efforts are to no avail . |
| 30 | So , it came as something of a disappointment when a Ms Mel Chevannes , who ran a black supplementary school in the West Midlands , wrote to the Wolverhampton Express and Star to protest at my testing ‘ hypotheses that black people are ‘ happy-go-lucky or very physical in their outlook ’ ’ and that my aims were to ‘ damage even further the life chances of black children ’ ( 25 June 1980 ) . |