Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So obviously this guest cottage of yours is going to be just perfect . ’ |
| 2 | She is expecting to be met by a local member of Committee staff and so is not surprised when a young Thai dressed formally in dark trousers and white short-sleeved shirt and carrying a dark peaked cap comes up to her and says , ‘ Excuse me , you are waiting for some-one ? ’ |
| 3 | Donna Anna , daughter of the murdered Commendatore , lacks any sense of humour : she is aiming to be a heroine of high drama ; while Donna Elvira , one of Giovanni 's cast-offs , is a genuinely tragic figure : mocked by all and in danger of losing her reason , she remains touchingly faithful to the lover who has abandoned her . |
| 4 | Again , the suggestion has been made that in cases where a woman 's SB is withdrawn because she is found/thought to be cohabiting , a ‘ tiding over ’ allowance should be made to ease the adjustment . |
| 5 | But ‘ at some point in the future ’ , she wants to become again what she is trained to be — a general paediatrician , work that would inevitably involve dealing with child abuse . |
| 6 | The crying sessions faded away and the basically happy and positive person she is began to be evident . |
| 7 | Interaction between judges is probably more significant in the United States with the stable membership on the Supreme Court , but even in Britain the phenomenon of ‘ opinion deference ’ , whereby one or more judges defers to the opinion of another because he or she is acknowledged to be an expert or to have seniority , is not unknown . |
| 8 | But now she is wanting to be home . |
| 9 | Now that she can see again she is proving to be a handful of trouble . ’ |
| 10 | She 'd hate to be thought of as a seer , but maybe she is destined to be a figure like Morrissey or Ian Curtis , someone whose vision of adolescence comes to represent all our experience . |
| 11 | She is determined to be a good mother to me as well as Papa 's wife . |
| 12 | Glennis 's voice falters , but she is determined to be positive . |
| 13 | She is engaged to be married in July . |
| 14 | ‘ Little has been heard of her since Dead Rat , but she is believed to be in the South-Western United States . |
| 15 | A doctor was called and the following day she was taken to Broadgreen , where she is believed to be having treatment for exhaustion . |
| 16 | Needless to say , he fails , and she is condemned to be executed . |
| 17 | She is said to be bricked up in her room , spinning her hand loom for all eternity . |
| 18 | Before the marriage she is discovered to be pregnant . |
| 19 | Hannah is eighteen and lives on her own in a bedsit in Staffordshire , where she is training to be a vet . |
| 20 | But elsewhere she is seen to be ‘ black ’ in more than one sense . |
| 21 | Can you tell me what is the maximum level of capital she is allowed to be eligible for this benefit ? |
| 22 | She is designed to be handled by a minimum crew and her huge Mediterranean-style cockpit is both comfortable and secure . |
| 23 | And although Mrs Thatcher has none of these defects , she is known to be not averse to the occasional run on sterling . |
| 24 | She is the only female character allowed into the fortress den and as the story develops she is shown to be both sensitive and sensible . |
| 25 | In these traditional roles she is shown to be effective . |
| 26 | When we went to visit relations my dad would say ‘ She is going to be a doctor and she is going to be a secretary . ’ |
| 27 | When we went to visit relations my dad would say ‘ She is going to be a doctor and she is going to be a secretary . ’ |
| 28 | In future she is going to be harder . |
| 29 | They also negotiate with her a ‘ coming home time ’ if she is going to be out later than usual . |
| 30 | ‘ She has never missed a class and she will even telephone if she is going to be two minutes late . |