Example sentences of "[pron] to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At length she asked , ‘ Am I to be content with that snippet of intelligence : ‘ Sir George likes me ’ ? ’ |
| 2 | Ought I to be fearful for my life ? ’ |
| 3 | Am I to be interested in you or not ? ’ |
| 4 | In other words , we have allowed ourselves to be brain-washed into avoiding any interpretation of the past that involves extreme and what might be termed " catastrophic " processes . |
| 5 | They say they just want someone to be accountable for the death of their daughter . |
| 6 | We support and accept the good sense of increasing sentences for offences that are worse than taking and driving away and of extending the deterrent of disqualification where personal injury and damage occurs , but it is quite another thing for someone to be guilty of additional offences that he does not commit , to which he is not a party and which he might not have foreseen as the likely consequences of his taking and driving away . |
| 7 | Women doing long sentences are obviously going to try and find someone to be close to . |
| 8 | Someone to be scared of . |
| 9 | WILD SCANDINAVIAN seeks someone to be wild with ! |
| 10 | To signifies this relation of subsequence in virtue of its potential meaning of a movement from one point in time to another and has been seen to give rise to two clearly identifiable actual meanings according to whether the speaker conceives the whole movement which to is capable of signifying or only the initial part thereof . |
| 11 | The Government have a great deal of which to be proud in their record since 1979 . |
| 12 | THERE 'S plenty to be thankful for in December , not least your ruler , Mercury , moving directly on the 1st . |
| 13 | So she has plenty to be pleased about — in addition to being the beautiful butt of the TV men 's admiring jokes . |
| 14 | McEniff himself has plenty to be confident about . |
| 15 | THEY may be cheap , but Europe 's discount food stores have plenty to be cheerful about . |
| 16 | They have plenty to be angry about . |
| 17 | Instead , he had proved himself to be capable of great human emotion . |
| 18 | He does not believe himself to be guilty of murder , and yet he now faces between and fifteen years ' imprisonment . |
| 19 | Smiling at her father , who probably did not think so either if he would permit himself to be honest about it , she placidly allowed him to give her hand to Tristan who looked down at her very intently , his face noble and moved and marvellously beautiful in the jewelled light from the stained glass window . |
| 20 | You 've known for years he was devious , and he 'd never actually fallen over himself to be nice to you , had he ? |
| 21 | ‘ Sheisse , ’ he added explosively as if he had at last allowed himself to be convinced of something which he had wanted to believe for a long time . |
| 22 | With the publication of what was his most important work apart from the Idées , namely the Extinction du Paupérisme , the Prince showed himself to be aware of the grave socio-economic problems which afflicted the mass of the French people ; to whom he now offered a solution . |
| 23 | Although Price did not give his evidence on oath ( because under Swedish law an accomplice can not be required to give evidence on oath ) , he was reminded of his duty to speak the truth when questioned in court , and he declared himself to be aware of his duty of truthfulness . |
| 24 | In his first independent act as king he established his authority on a sure foundation and revealed both a sound political judgement and a determination not to allow himself to be dependent upon a small group of powerful nobles . |
| 25 | I think too , ’ said the Archdeacon with untoward frankness , ‘ Marr feels himself to be entitled to more success in the Church than he 's actually achieved . |
| 26 | He had always run Virgin with something of the paternalism of a nineteenth-century Lancashire mill-owner , believing himself to be mindful of the welfare of his staff , if not always fully in touch with the vicissitudes of their day-to-day existence , but certainly never tolerating any direct challenge to his authority . |
| 27 | As they climbed into his estate car , he resigned himself to being late for his appointment in the town . |
| 28 | Her mother said it was all nerves , but what had she to be nervy about ? |
| 29 | He said formally , ‘ I would like you to be present at the boatyard tomorrow morning . ’ |
| 30 | I wanted you to learn everything ; I did n't want you to be poor like my sisters . |