Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [am/are] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | After take-off Beaton surveyed his surroundings : ‘ Silk-lined walls , arm chairs like Pullmans , various compartments for eating , sleeping , smoking — this is the aircraft that took Churchill to America … how grateful I am to be among the lucky ones on the last lap for home . ’ |
| 2 | All of the references given above come from what is called the Priestly strand ( ‘ P ’ ) and as such they are to be dated to around the time of the Jews ' exile to Babylon in the sixth century BC — that is , according to the still widely accepted dating of this biblical strand within the source-critical school of thought ( though it must also be said that my own arguments as developed in this essay and elsewhere independently point to the exile as the time when these blood concerns and rituals would first have emerged ) . |
| 3 | ‘ And for that you 're to be pitied Aggie . ’ |
| 4 | Let me say immediately how glad I am to be here , looking forward with hope and enthusiasm to the task that lies ahead , working alongside many others in the building up of God 's kingdom within the diocese of Middlesbrough . |
| 5 | The initial response of Bishop Crowley immediately after his appointment was ‘ Let me say immediately how glad I am to be here ’ . |
| 6 | right , okay so anyway that erm one 's causing a little bit of concern , I 've got another one scheduled for March which I was going to centre on here where will come along and talk to us about the Editor and the Royal Visit and you know ee ach dear me how glad I am to be away from the Scottish Office |
| 7 | And how lucky I am to be living in Badminton , a beautiful Cotswold village , on the edge of a park in the middle of a great landed estate , with all the amenities provided at my landlord 's expense and responsibility . |
| 8 | I ca n't tell you how thrilled I am to be in closer contact with Medau again . |
| 9 | You realise how very lucky you are to be given another chance to be happy , and appreciate the blessing you have received in finding a soulmate and companion you can trust . |
| 10 | In any case , the closer you get , the more likely you are to be killed . ’ |
| 11 | The more distant one of those later groups is , the more likely we are to be able to construct a counter-example ; as is revealed in our own example where = you are a brain in a vat ; |
| 12 | The more highly constrained and ritualised the genre , the more likely we are to be able to identify norms . |
| 13 | ‘ Dear friends and relations , I think this is the moment when we should be aware of how lucky we are to be partaking of such excellent food and spare a thought for those less fortunate . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ How lucky we are to be in a band and not having to get up every morning to do a crappy job . |
| 15 | ‘ How lucky we are to be in a band and not having to get up every morning to do a crappy job . |
| 16 | The more often they mate , the more likely they are to be the one who fertilises the eggs , and the more certain they can be that the offspring they expend so much time and energy in rearing are theirs . |
| 17 | The authors speculate that this may be because , with a centralised collective bargaining system which is fairly remote from the workers , ‘ the less conscious they will be of the gains achieved , and hence the less likely they are to be credited to union activity ’ ( p. 109 ) . |
| 18 | The more shots you fire into somebody , the more likely they are to be dead at the end of it . |
| 19 | We want Annabelle and Steven to enjoy the things we never had , not to take them for granted , but to appreciate how lucky they are to be able to celebrate like this surrounded by their families and friends . |
| 20 | And we appreciate how honoured we are to be among the select few who they chose to share this very special occasion with them . |
| 21 | Each side usually considers it advantageous to be the side that prepares the accounts , even if as is usual they are to be checked by the other side . |
| 22 | It goes almost without saying how pleased I am to be here today . |
| 23 | 27 You are to be imprisoned for life . |
| 24 | In fact , in interviews , a quick reference to the home town frequently serves them as well as a rhetorical trick : by declaring their provinciality , they can remind you just how surprised they are to be attracting so much attention all of a sudden . |
| 25 | Audiences ' large capacities for ersatz-importance show how eager they are to be deeply stirred ; how easily gulled ; how low the threshold of enjoyment must be set for music of our time . |