Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daisy wished she could paint it , but you 'd need to be Lady Butler to capture that lot . |
| 2 | She did n't need to be Sherlock Holmes to know how he had picked up his nick-name . |
| 3 | For half of the twelve tracks here , the Labèques use acoustic pianos ( that has always struck me as an oddity , by the way : a piano , or a guitar that was n't acoustic would be damned difficult to record ; the only non-acoustic piano that I can think of is Joseph Cooper 's dummy keyboard ) ; for the others we are told they play ‘ MIDI Grand pianos & Synthesisers ’ . |
| 4 | Here she was , talking to Nigel , who , admittedly , was very attractive in a blatant sort of way , and all she could think of was David Kent 's long eyelashes and his beautiful brown eyes ! |
| 5 | As an example he cites Europe ; his political passion — just as it would appear to be Mrs Thatcher 's bete noir . |
| 6 | At the moment there do n't appear to be man side effects because it is n't a poison . |
| 7 | If this is so , there are important practical implications , since while there may be no legal pressures , there would appear to be market pressures on managers to focus on share price . |
| 8 | Scotland 's lineout ace , however , would again appear to be Doddie Weir , whose height at the lineout tail can not be matched by the Welsh , unless they leave themselves unprotected elsewhere . |
| 9 | I am worried that many students may convert to being part time rather than full time , simply because they can not afford to be full-time students . |
| 10 | They asked if I would like to be gallery secretary . |
| 11 | How 'd you like to be tour manager for a major interplanetary cabaret troupe ? ’ |
| 12 | Except Tony says I can return to being Security manager . |
| 13 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he intends to relax the patient numbers criteria so that smaller general practitioner practices can apply to be fund holders . |
| 14 | Dolo , scolo does it have to be O L O ? |
| 15 | ‘ There will have to be reorientation courses as people change jobs , but we should be doing that now anyway . |
| 16 | Fortunately , all this does n't have to be hair raising . |
| 17 | ‘ I am afraid it would have to be Captain Owen , ’ he said . |
| 18 | If I had to name the twentieth-century figure who reminds me most of corduroys , it would have to be Albert Einstein . |
| 19 | However , you do n't have to be Shirley Basset or Tom Bones to take part in Top Dog '91 . |
| 20 | The bottles did n't have to be champagne bottles . |
| 21 | Does every move have to be Judgement Day ? ’ |
| 22 | Well it 'll have to be school dinners Friday , is that what you 've ? |
| 23 | ‘ My favourite hairdresser would have to be Trevor Sorbie . |
| 24 | ‘ If we are talking about who has contributed most to hairdressing , it would have to be Vidal Sassoon . |
| 25 | But when I got home and found my answerphone knee-deep in angry messages I did n't really have to be Sherlock Holmes to work out that you had something to do with it . ’ |
| 26 | You ca n't all be company directors , some of us are gon na have to be shop floor workers are n't we . |
| 27 | If you wanted to list the five magazines which have had the most impact on popular culture since the war , they would have to be Picture Post , Queen , Nova , the Sunday Times Magazine — and The Face . |
| 28 | ‘ We did n't want to be press barons ’ , observes Miles . |
| 29 | They did n't want to be press barons , says Miles , they wanted a community paper , and it had n't even been easy to find an editor amongst the founding group , preoccupied as they were with art galleries and bookshops , theatre companies and poetry , and preoccupied also with that sense of freedom , and the breaking down of national barriers which had accompanied the explosion of travel in the 1960s . |
| 30 | He did n't want to be Florence Nightingale and the legless lieutenant , he wanted to be Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid . |