Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Say is said to be distraught after a domestic dispute at his home . |
| 2 | On the next point , what initially appeared to have been an ace down the middle by Forget was shown to be no more than wishful thinking by spectators now spending more time on their feet than in their seats . |
| 3 | Alternatively , just hang plants from hooks above the window , or stand small pots of plants along the windowsill , making sure that the ones you select are going to be happy with the kind of light , temperature and humidity you are providing . |
| 4 | Even when they apply themselves to understanding the effects of social relations on individual cognition , as with work on social identity and social representations , the patterns they describe are assumed to be based on universal properties of the human mind . |
| 5 | And it would be helpful for councillor I would say that I know that there are a third of our members and from the program committees for capital expenditure which I suspect is going to be to excess of the five hundred thousand pounds per year which we actually have . |
| 6 | This occurs when individuals ' act in a way they know is destined to be hurtful to other members of the family , who , in response , reciprocate with actions they know will cause even more distress . |
| 7 | At Orbec , twenty kilometres from Lisieux , is the Caneton , a restaurant which you know is going to be good as soon as you enter its doors — the smell is so appetizing — but it is small and not exactly unknown , so it is prudent to telephone for a table in advance . |
| 8 | Now the maximum number of engines you you 're going to have we know is going to be twenty five . |
| 9 | If you have a good and close relationship with your mother you should be able to talk to her , but sometimes things are not even as straightforward as this , and if you are close to someone who you know is going to be upset or disappointed in you , it may be even harder to do . |
| 10 | We are restricted somewhat by time , because I want to get everybody back in the main auditorium to listen to what I know is going to be a fantastic lecture by Professor Don , er from Baltimore , which I would certainly recommend that everybody go and see . |
| 11 | If what they discuss and teach is considered to be a danger to the state , they may be deemed guilty of ‘ thought crimes ’ . |
| 12 | One of those situations when any publicity we get is bound to be bad . ’ |
| 13 | You would reach your market more economically in a women 's magazine where the percentage of readers who knit is known to be high . |
| 14 | SNAP is set to be fronted by TWO girl singers . |
| 15 | The point 's that I think is trying to be made is that there are a lot of people here tonight who do wish to express an opinion and that opinion is not necessarily formulated in question form . |
| 16 | And upon authority , this we think is established to be the law whether the things so brought be beasts , or water , or filth , or stenches . ’ |
| 17 | I think white actually is the best colour because it Yeah , anything else I think is going to be . |
| 18 | A part of that obviously I think is going to be that there was an expected higher level of productivity than we 've actually achieved , cos you know in January I think in , in Christine 's area for example , to start off with I mean er er er productivity plummeted erm and it 's now , and she changed the system and , and one or two other things . |
| 19 | Anyway we 're going to go for trap two , Smoky Amber here , now she 's a bitch that is really , I think 's going to be something special over a longer trip , erm you know a longer distance , but she is only a March eighty nine so she 's not two yet . |
| 20 | As long as the limitations are recognised and understood and those who allocate are seen to be acting fairly and using socially accepted criteria such as equity and efficiency , the use of rough , though conceptually sound , mechanisms ( for example , the original RAWP formula ) is most probably as good as we can get . |
| 21 | For white middleclass males , however , pride and dignity has little resonance , when all your life you 've been trained to be aspirational and competitive . |
| 22 | I 've been trying to be a footballer , and that is n't me . |
| 23 | Yes there are far too many overlapping institutions that self regulation has n't worked , it ha has no adequate on the annualt we welcomed 21 effective against fraud by replacing it by an independent statutory statutory based regulator which has the power to strike and strike hard rather than everything er by the the the plethora of regulations we now deal with in the financial er in the financial sector and in the respect of what 's proposed today , you ca n't rely er on auditors to be the effective police force that they 've been required to be by these er regulations . |
| 24 | Let one such ordinand have the last word : ‘ If a student leaves college as a musical novice ( both in terms of their own singing ability and their ability to select music for worship ) then the worship of the churches in which they serve is going to be severely disadvantaged … |
| 25 | If the " we " code is taken to be the one which is closer to the " heart and mind " of the speaker , and hence the one which imparts greatest salience to a given message , then Creole , even though used sparingly , does indeed seem to fulfil the " we code " function for speakers in this community . |
| 26 | Traditionally form was considered to be a sort of ‘ decorative supplement ’ which provided the entertainment value while the business of instruction ( associated with the content ) went ahead . |
| 27 | TRADERS in Dungannon have been warned to be on the lookout for counterfeit £20 notes after ten forgeries were passed in business premises in the town . |
| 28 | SHOPPERS have been warned to be extremely careful about buying cheap goods after dangerous chemicals were found in packets of household washing powder . |
| 29 | Employees of oil companies in the city have been warned to be on the alert for anyone acting suspiciously near their offices . |
| 30 | Section 33 of the Taxes Management Act 1970 , even if it applies to composite rate tax , is not applicable for a number of reasons , not least that no valid assessment could be made under an invalid regulation , that no assessment was in fact made and that , even if made , the assessment could not on the facts of the present case have been said to be ‘ excessive by reason of some error or mistake in a return : ’ section 33(1) . |