Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any event , Miss Kyte — at least Theda , for that I know to be her real name — is not to lose by this . |
| 2 | We had only brief glimpses of the parrot as it flew across gaps in the canopy , and with that I had to be content . |
| 3 | What is to be understood as happening is perhaps that , given that someone wants to be Christian , she as a feminist will look for what female representation there may be in the religion , whether or not this is fully satisfactory . |
| 4 | I can not possibly and conceivably , and no good other individual officer , actually handle all those and some them have to be delegated . |
| 5 | In the next letter he wrote me , dated 7 May , he announced that he was to have a holiday ; and this I knew to be much overdue . |
| 6 | At seven years old I determined to be a great footballer . |
| 7 | I registered in Room 304 which came to be my home for the next three years . |
| 8 | To decorate a dish of smoked salmon , so beautiful in itself , with lettuce leaves , or to strew it with tufts of cress , is not to make that salmon which has cost 38s. a pound look as if it cost £3 , but to belittle it so that you begin to feel it is some bargain basement left-over which needs to be disguised . |
| 9 | The vast majority of applications have been dealt with , but there are still some which need to be processed . |
| 10 | The notebooks show that Nietzsche was prepared to rethink the precise shape of the book well into 1871 , but almost all of the numerous plans there — including some which appear to be earlier than " Socrates and Instinct " — point to a book centrally concerned with tragedy and recognizably related to BT . |
| 11 | The TV cameras attract the mindless who want to be seen by their friends . |
| 12 | The Race Relations Act says that you can do this you can have courses especially for black or Asian people so as I said you have to be unemployed you have to be black or Asian and you have to live in either Radford Hyson Green St Annes Lenton or Snainton . |
| 13 | It 's interesting who get to be the ‘ authoritative ’ women in television . |
| 14 | It is good practice and you will soon learn how careful you have to be not to scare them — and the bigger the chub are , the more careful you have to be . |
| 15 | It is good practice and you will soon learn how careful you have to be not to scare them — and the bigger the chub are , the more careful you have to be . |
| 16 | Oh , she knew what was going through his head all right , and how careful she had to be not to say or do anything he might misinterpret . |
| 17 | I 'm afraid you have to be like them cos , to survive |
| 18 | To do this we need to be alert to the processes going on within society and the economy , what range of alternatives is available , who can and should take part in the decision-making process , and what the effects of the various possible outcomes might be . |
| 19 | To feel this we need to be sure that other people are making similar sacrifices or , if they are not , that there are acceptable grounds for their not doing so . |
| 20 | ‘ This we consider to be a retrograde and unnecessary step , ’ particularly since these powers had only just been vested in the NRA under the Water Act , he said . |
| 21 | The reasons for this we consider to be legitimate business affairs . |
| 22 | She looked at the second photo : the person in this one seemed to be dead too . |
| 23 | They said the light moved in just the way this one seemed to be doing . |
| 24 | I 'm not sure you could take a tabloid in this direction I 'm about to propose that would also appeal to some popular customers , but it 's like , last night everyone was reminiscing about Type ninety and the high points and one of the things that came out in conversation was that there was enormous amount of sex going on which I suppose there is at all conferences , you know , but this one seemed to be , you know , the randiest conference in recent memory . |
| 25 | More than that , she positively hoped it would annoy ; boring , grumpy men like this one deserved to be annoyed ; they had absolutely no idea how to enjoy themselves . |
| 26 | You will be delighted at how quickly you will begin to lose weight and inches and how different from previous diets this one proves to be . |
| 27 | Roger usually introduced us to his girl-friends across the breakfast table , so this one had to be important and in the two weeks before her arrival I asked Rog to teach me a formal French greeting . |
| 28 | Erm being that I , one of the bits which I think catches your eye is this little house here , although there 's lots of them about , because this one tends to be in a slightly darker area , and for some reason that , the light on there is sort of picking that one out rather more than all the others , and I think that 's quite a nice little feature . |
| 29 | Some books are considered to be ‘ unputdownable ’ but this one seems to be ‘ unpickupable ’ . |
| 30 | Some playing positions are prone to collide with a Floyd 's fine tuning system and this one seems to be especially sensitive . |