Example sentences of "proud to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lastly , we are proud to be screening Derek Jarman 's new film EDWARD II . |
| 2 | And I 'm not too proud to be a surrogate . |
| 3 | Of days one was proud to be associated with railways and too many ( still only a sprinkling but so devastatingly disrupting ) that one swore always to take the car next time . |
| 4 | Yardley , a second- or third-change bowler throughout his career , was rightly proud to be one of the very few who could claim to have dismissed Bradman thrice in Test matches . |
| 5 | ENO , I am glad to say , is proud to be dismissed by him to the purgatory reserved for this despicable activity , and more than 450,000 people pass through our doors each year to prove it . |
| 6 | They were still proud to be British with powerful national variants in Wales , Scotland , and especially Northern Ireland . |
| 7 | Her daughter could remember greenish-black wrinkled stockings , and a newspaper report of a speech , ‘ Mrs Ramsey — proud to be shabby ’ . |
| 8 | Most of this has to do with Veronica Lake 's deep , husky voice : a smoky spirit whose name and form collectively conjured up a feminine aura of water , vapour , air , smoke and flesh at the same time ; a floating dreamboat that any boy of six would be proud to be married to . |
| 9 | They are no longer proud to be poor . |
| 10 | They are no longer proud to be poor . |
| 11 | McEnroe , ranked 19th in doubles to Becker 's 39th ( although the German has played only seven tournaments ) but only 359th in singles , is proud to be part of a successful partnership but would be happier still to make an impression as a soloist . |
| 12 | We became inseparable , and I was so proud to be seen walking with him , to enter a concert hall with him and let others see us sit down together at café and restaurant tables . |
| 13 | After dinner he took us to the Royal College of Art , where he seemed proud to be an honorary member of the faculty club and students ' union . |
| 14 | Plus his monologue and repartee with his studio audience , Hall was proud to be street-smart retailing in-jokes and zinging forth slang which is all black , yet hardly all middle class . |
| 15 | He is a new black American for the Nineties : proud to be upwardly mobile , yet also unashamed of his community 's ghetto connections . |
| 16 | Mr Canavan , who is fighting for re-election as MP for Falkirk West and has been a prominent member of PLCND , said : ‘ I have always been proud to be a member of CND and will continue to campaign vigorously for unilateral nuclear disarmament within the Labour Party . |
| 17 | I am proud to come from this area , I am proud to be British , I will always be proud to serve this democracy . ’ |
| 18 | If that is ‘ soft ’ then I am proud to be a ‘ softie . ’ |
| 19 | He had written an essay on ‘ Why I Am Proud to Be an American ’ , and he had won third prize . |
| 20 | I am still proud to be a skinhead goodbye for now from your true mate Malcolm PS you better still be a skinhead or else . |
| 21 | They are proud to be part of it . |
| 22 | Even proud to be the cause . |
| 23 | When the American train , the ‘ De Witt Clinton ’ , clattered along the rails in 1831 the good citizens of Albany , proud to be its first passengers , were showered with burning embers from the tall funnel of the locomotive . |
| 24 | PROUD TO BE OLD |
| 25 | The vision of Mrs Thatcher raising her arms at the Tory Party Conference and saying she is ‘ proud to be old ’ is so unlikely that it makes us smile . |
| 26 | We have to ask ourselves why Mrs Thatcher would never say she was proud to be old . |
| 27 | We have to challenge and defeat ageist attitudes in Britain today so that older people can feel proud to be old . |
| 28 | Baroness Cumberlege said : ‘ I am proud to be associated with this important new initiative to conserve a landscape which I have known and loved for much of my life . ’ |
| 29 | In addition , CAB advisers are proud to be a ‘ one-stop ’ service and there is a fear that a receptionist may make unnecessary referrals in order to relieve queues and so reduce bureaux to the signposting agencies they were once considered to be . |
| 30 | Their pay was , however , increased when he loaned them to Madame Rasimi to work in Lyons and Bordeaux , and they were proud to be able to send almost ten shillings weekly to their mothers . |