Example sentences of "[noun] i [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , yes , I know that , O.K. , I said , you 're their mother , and you decided against their father for reasons I take to be desolate , but would n't some Asian studies in St. James 's Square at the Institute of International Affairs be less perilous until they are both over , say , four ? |
| 2 | He said : ‘ One of the reasons I wanted to be here was to copperfasten , I hope , the central role that architecture in general , and especially the architecture of the last 300 years has in our cultural and heritage policy . |
| 3 | ‘ I feel fine and in any case I wanted to be here in person and not have to watch you on television . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , in case I seem to be just er avoiding the question , er I would have to say that this has been asked for before and we have resisted time and again , that 's the history of the matter , on the grounds that what these parents are really asking for is baptism and it 's our opportunity to er , to speak in these terms er and it 's a gold golden opportunity if they actually come to us . |
| 5 | For an instant I seemed to be staring into smoke . |
| 6 | I do n't want to be complacent but since March I seem to be winning . |
| 7 | I judge that in the time it takes the lift to creep the height of the building I have to be out the door and on my way . |
| 8 | The thread I have chosen to follow is that of houses I consider to be perfect period pieces or exceptional architectural masterpieces , and hence they are not always conventionally representative of their particular period . |
| 9 | ‘ This is the kind of acting part I want to be offered in future . |
| 10 | The only times I do not want to be a writer are when I want to be a painter , and the only times I want to be a painter are when I am taken by the cast or mobility on a person 's face . |
| 11 | To weigh my principles against the risks I appear to be running . |
| 12 | It was long , slow , difficult work , and during the next months I learnt to be very clever with my tools . |
| 13 | A little late in the day as it happened , but they did and one of the things that helped was the fact that as an Irish citizen I had to be entered on the aliens ’ register by the local police and that required a passport photo . ’ |
| 14 | Despite the fact that I feel strongly about this issue , I remain open-minded and by seeing as much as is attainable my ideas will develop and so determine the kind of practitioner I hope to be . |
| 15 | Sometimes I told Eva I wanted to be a photographer or an actor , or perhaps a journalist , preferably a foreign correspondent in a war zone , Cambodia or Belfast . |
| 16 | On one of our south coast patrols I managed to be in at the kill on what turned out to be one of our more amusing combined operations . |
| 17 | ‘ What a pity I have to be at the Brooksby plant this weekend , ’ he said . |
| 18 | independence I like to be independent |
| 19 | ‘ When I was a girl I wanted to be an actress . |
| 20 | December I want to be the longest-serving manager under Peter Swales . |
| 21 | Sport I want to be a football manager . |
| 22 | Lochinver was a magnet , largely because of the strange mountains I knew to be in its vicinity , and I longed to go there . |
| 23 | That spiritual dimension I believe to be of pivotal importance ; indeed I believe it to be the soul of the Green Movement today . |
| 24 | Together , these two chapters constitute an attempt to address the question I consider to be of overriding importance , which is not whether male/female differences exist ( they do ) , what they are or what causes them , but what they mean : what significant social uses are made of them , or more accurately of discourse about them . |
| 25 | ‘ A question I refuse to be drawn on . |
| 26 | Just at the moment I seem to be getting somewhere , I 'm dragged off the case . ’ |
| 27 | That at a given moment I seem to be seeing a brown patch — this I can not conceivably doubt . |
| 28 | The only place I seemed to be able to reach you was in bed . |
| 29 | ‘ I know what it 's like in there and I 'm not sure it 's a place I want to be . ’ |
| 30 | This is the last place I want to be and I 'm not at all interested in your background . |