Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] to [be] [art] " 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 | I am to be the new Archdeacon here . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Then I 'm to be a spectator , ’ she said . |
| 5 | Now I was to be a sales assistant . |
| 6 | : 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I was to be an avenging angel : Justice , putting right what could not be done through the courts . |
| 9 | And it was because you told her I was to be the baby 's legal mother when the adoption went through . ’ |
| 10 | As it turned out , fate had decreed that I was to be the one who would change this unhappy state of affairs . |
| 11 | ‘ I was to be the poet , he the novelist . |
| 12 | I could n't think of a single thing to say , but dimly realized that I now had my role for the evening ; I had done nothing to bring this off ; but I was to be the identifiable face of the campaign . |
| 13 | With the ploughmen and er in my own case I remember going to the house where I was er I was to be the ploughman for this so called horseman you see ? |
| 14 | One day I was called back from my duties of covering the coroner 's and juvenile courts and told that henceforth I was to be the paper 's " walking reporter " tramping the Dales and picking up whatever stories I could find . |
| 15 | By the time we eventually turned to starboard and headed off towards the UK I was most anxious to get home : I was to be the best man at a wedding that day , and I had to get back before high noon , When the dawn really appeared we were lying very sedately over ( and we were not aware of it at the time ) Belgium . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | You must make your own if you are to be a Lapp . |
| 18 | I think it is essential to feel that if you are to be a successful athlete . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Great is the festival hall where you are to be the only guest . |
| 21 | A new little contraption we want to try out , so you 're to be a guinea pig . |
| 22 | She was to be a Spirit Warrior . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She was to be the Honourable Lady Penelope , a British aristocrat who was seeking the protection of an influential Wehrmacht officer after Britain had fallen to the Third Reich . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | We were to be the first line . |
| 28 | Self-interest plays a part but the clubs have a strong case when they argue that if they are to be the mentors to the young , society must help to foot the bill . |
| 29 | The figures from the United Kingdom , acknowledged as they are to be the most accurate , still underestimate the true incidence of infection . |
| 30 | 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 . |