Example sentences of "[pers pn] [am/are] [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If Major Calder and I are about to be deprived of your services , ’ Carew answered evenly , ‘ then we 'll have to use another and faster method of disrupting the IRB organisation . ’ |
| 2 | I am luckily to be hear to write after the bombing of our works I have not had a chance to explain or to see the person who is in charge of this case … |
| 3 | Without the which I am not to be won , |
| 4 | ‘ It seems I am not to be Archdeacon of Woodborough . |
| 5 | " Are you saying I am not to be set up to dine with the Prince at Carlton House ? |
| 6 | Sir , I am not to be caught by a bait so poorly covered as this ! |
| 7 | I am not to be intimidated by house plants and silk ties , she thought . |
| 8 | I hope I am not to be cast absolutely into the outer darkness , Helen — I should find that very wretched . ’ |
| 9 | And incidentally , ’ added the canny Scot , ‘ I am now to be known as Princess Deborah Barbecue . |
| 10 | As one teacher said , ‘ I am still to be convinced whether the energy and time required to do effective evaluation would balance the increased efficiency in teaching which might follow . ’ |
| 11 | And a little nervous that I am about to be ticked off for my unorthodox and amiable occupation of the Rosenbloom . |
| 12 | My heart , or what passes for one in demonic physiology , is in my mouth , for fear that I am about to be exiled from Rainbow Rosenbloom , and from Chinese food , movies and other earthly delights , for evermore . |
| 13 | I 'm here to be made love to when you need to , or when you think I need to , just to cover up . |
| 14 | I 'm yet to be convinced . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm not to be turned into the street ? ’ |
| 16 | So I 'm not to be coddled like a twelve-year-old , thank you very much . |
| 17 | ‘ Do n't you be taken in , I 'm not to be trusted , ’ he said , noticing that his spectacles were steamed up . |
| 18 | ‘ If I 'm not to be allowed Mozart , why not somebody with an appropriate gloom quotient like Mahler ? |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm not to be bought . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm not to be a pawn in your game , Benedict ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Well , for the first , as far as I 'm concerned they do n't go without the second , and for the second , I do n't believe I 'm about to be asked . ’ |
| 22 | As the front-man , ever in vision , I accept I 'm there to be shot at . |
| 23 | At the moment , I 'm still to be convinced . |
| 24 | But no matter , for you are n't to be beaten . ’ |
| 25 | Again , a simple colour change in the test will tell you whether or not you are soon to be a mum . |
| 26 | A quarto is likely to need all of twelve inches , a folio correspondingly more , if you are not to be reduced to laying it on its side . |
| 27 | ‘ You do n't know how lucky you are not to be part of the system . ’ |
| 28 | He ignored the bluntness of the queries as he went on , ‘ Misty also says you are not to be nervous . |
| 29 | If you are not to be the owner of the module , the user name can be changed . |
| 30 | If you are not to be the owner of the module , the user name can be changed . |