Example sentences of "[n mass] [adv] [vb base] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conference , young people especially need to be informed , as free samples are being given out in schools and colleges , and often the family of these young girls are unaware that their daughters are using these products even doctors and hospital staff fail to ask the question when these cases are admitted , are you using tampons ? |
| 2 | ‘ I 've heard that I 'm the most unsavoury , unconscionable character that ever existed but people all want to be associated with me and sit with me , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Some people just want to be told what to eat . |
| 4 | Why , after all these years , people still seem to be able to find something new to say about him . |
| 5 | I find it amazing that Shakespeare 's still as popular as ever , and I started by asking Tony why this was the case , and why after all these years people still seem to be able to find something new to say about him . |
| 6 | ‘ I think the Arthur Daley image , picked up in the 50s and 60s , is unfair now but people still expect to be greeted by a young man in a sharp suit who baffles them with technical details and hard sell . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I wouldn't. ever want to be a princess , ’ Dot sometimes said , because she wanted so much to be one . |
| 8 | Ani said : ‘ People always seem to be impressed by a girl doing this kind of work . |
| 9 | Politicians in all countries would accept the proposition that the system should be designed to serve the people but whatever the political philosophy behind the system , the people always seem to be more its servants than its masters . |
| 10 | The senior staff also need to be alert to other problems , such as illness and personal worries which interfere with learning . |
| 11 | Well , life has changed since then , and people now have to be a little bit wary when they meet strangers or find themselves in unusual places or situations . |
| 12 | People now expect to be in touch when they want . |
| 13 | People now expect to be in touch when they want . |
| 14 | Many people indeed manage to be embarrassed by both , and for the latter reaction there is more excuse . |
| 15 | But young people everywhere need to be educated to the opportunities available . ’ |
| 16 | It is beyond chance that all of these species also happen to be animals ; plants , perhaps inhabiting the same regions as these animals , have disappeared without even the briefest of epitaphs . |
| 17 | Rain can thrash its surface , wind can chop it up , and the carp still have to be outwitted ; probably even more than on a water where the natural food is less abundant and the carp are smaller and therefore not so cautious . |