Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [prep] [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , much as I may myself enjoy theatre-going and much as I may cheer when I see a full theatre , I must contain my own enthusiasm if I am to be a cool observer . |
| 2 | ’ — And if I am to be a great Kha-Khan , I ought to be able to recognise when I am being told the truth . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Then I 'm to be a spectator , ’ she said . |
| 4 | Now I was to be a sales assistant . |
| 5 | : I did the only thing I could think of , and retired to bed ; if I was to be a blade of grass doomed to be trampled flat , then I might as well accept it and lie down . |
| 6 | It was a number of weeks ago I had cause to sit on it to do some paperwork ; I then found out I was to be a father again . |
| 7 | I was to be an avenging angel : Justice , putting right what could not be done through the courts . |
| 8 | He had concluded that there was no likelihood of a breach of the peace , largely , it would seem , because the protesters had emphasised that theirs was to be a peaceful event . |
| 9 | You must make your own if you are to be a Lapp . |
| 10 | I think it is essential to feel that if you are to be a successful athlete . |
| 11 | This is very difficult when you are accustomed to your precise and meaningful jargon , but it is a skill you must acquire if you are to be a successful communicator . |
| 12 | If the roundabout suggests that the road you 're on is a fairly wide road and the road you 're exiting on is a fairly narrow road it will normally indicate you 're going from probably a duel carriageway , which you know you 're on if you 're already on it , but the road you 're entering might not be . |
| 13 | A new little contraption we want to try out , so you 're to be a guinea pig . |
| 14 | She was to be a Spirit Warrior . |
| 15 | In any event , and no matter what reforms were contemplated , the issue that was posed by Marius Moutet , pre-war Minister for the Colonies in the Popular Front and shortly to become Minister for Overseas France , was whether or not France really considered herself to be a nation of 100 m. and whether or not she was to be a great power . |
| 16 | She left elementary school at fourteen to take a job filling seed packets for five shillings a week ; later she worked for a draper and subsequently for the Co-op , where she joined the union movement of which she was to be a lifelong member . |
| 17 | As the Chairman , Pat Retief in his Annual Chairman 's Review says , ‘ we must continue to be a profitable company if we are to be a good employer in the fullest sense , capable of maintaining and enhancing our portfolio of assets and maximising the development of the Group 's human resources . |
| 18 | And they know they 'll have to unite behind the new one if they 're to be a force at the next General Election . |
| 19 | THE story of the twins who died in a barn fire after having sex with the men they were with is a tragic one . |
| 20 | They were to be a new form of secondary school — ‘ beacons of excellence ’ — funded mainly by industry , and would concentrate on science and technology . |
| 21 | If he were to be an ‘ S. ’ also , a Stephen or a Sam , then how was she to know which of them had given her orders ? |
| 22 | Awful lot of reasons why training i is so important to us an and basically it simply all comes back to our statement is n't it , it it 's to be a sort of feeding insurer to give unsurpassed service . |
| 23 | It 's like this people th they 're deep sea divers and they discover , they 're stuck in the crevice , a big erm nuclear submarine and what it 's for is an experiment that 's gone wrong and it it 's to make and instead they make an abomination you know , incredibly powerful and intelligent but really nasty you know , murderous and killer and so they take they take him to these people . |
| 24 | I think it 's from being a haulier to being a parcel carrier now , Peter . |
| 25 | It 's like being a house without a roof . ’ |
| 26 | I 've always said it 's like being a race horse , you have to train so hard . |
| 27 | It 's like being a very little fish on the end of a very long line . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It 's like being a reverse zombie , ’ he said , ‘ I 'm alive , but everybody else is dead . ’ |
| 29 | It 's like being a pioneer ’ |
| 30 | It 's like being a pioneer , ’ she reports , received like ‘ revelations ’ , she writes on her work in the ward . |