Example sentences of "be [noun] [prep] [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now there are calls for him to resign . |
| 2 | Venus will be in the area of love and relationships in January , June , July and November , so there are opportunities for you to find happiness and fulfilment this year . |
| 3 | Erm what we get for the money , and erm where there are possibilities for us to consider reducing that overhead . |
| 4 | And there are pages of them to learn . |
| 5 | so seen are things beyond us to construe |
| 6 | There are ways for me to hide . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm sorry about you and Garry ; it must be torture for you to lose him , but his wife and child must come first , ’ she said sympathetically . |
| 8 | There would be opportunities for him to rejoin the council at a later date , however . |
| 9 | And it would be shame to him to hold back and let a fighter like Douglas be shot to death from a distance , with never an enemy at hand to exchange blows with him . |
| 10 | Of course it must be agony for him to go shopping for me ( what does he do at the chemist 's ? ) , so I suppose he prefers to get it all over in one go . |
| 11 | I dare not spend another farthing , and it would be suicide for me to go to the bank , even if Richard agreed , which he wo n't . ’ |
| 12 | Let me straight away , er , that it might be folly of me to assume that er , you know a great deal about I B M. By the way I B M stands for International Business Machines , not as , some people used to think , International Ballistic Missiles . |
| 13 | At a time when the world 's largest nuclear power is in the process of disintegration into separate republics , if not worse , and when 27,000 nuclear weapons exist there , the vast majority of which are capable of inflicting considerable damage on this and other countries , it would be lunacy for us to undermine our nuclear deterrent . |
| 14 | There will , of course , be papers for you to sign . ’ |
| 15 | Soon it will be time for them to do it again . |
| 16 | But , even when people have had spells of very bad illness , they may still live for many years and there will be time for them to make good plans for their children . |
| 17 | ‘ It 'll be time for me to go and collect Maria soon — ‘ |
| 18 | When the time comes an' I ca n't lift a hundredweight of sugar or me old black pan , then it 'll be time for me to retire upstairs for good . ’ |
| 19 | It 'll soon be time for me to write again . |
| 20 | She had a point ; the sports clothes were in the first part of the programme — there should be time for her to change into the wedding dress for the finale . |
| 21 | Have a go with the wood , here 's the wood , write Michelle the answer 's no , but later on I 'm sure there 'll be time for you to do it too . |
| 22 | ‘ It 'll soon be time for us to take control , seriously . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ There will be time for us to have a look round Westminster Abbey , ’ said Lady Selvedge , not in the least disturbed by the upsetting little incident of the pudding . |
| 24 | It would be madness for me to refuse you through hurt pride when all I want to do is be with you , as I have just found out . ’ |
| 25 | Since a mother generally has a new baby every four and a half years , there may have been pressure on her to speed up each youngster 's training , to leave time to care for the latest addition to the family . |
| 26 | At first it were good because it were incentive for her to keep going because she 'd , you know , paid so much but toward the end , she said , it were getting ridiculous . |
| 27 | ‘ If the mistakes had been that obvious there were people around me to tell me where I had gone wrong , but they did n't . |
| 28 | His purpose was not only to prevent his own partisans from uniting to oust him , but also to use the fact that there were differences between them to strengthen his own position . |
| 29 | Yeah , because it 's money for you to spend |
| 30 | Well , tell him it 's kind of him to agree to let me stay here , but I 'm turning down his invitation . ’ |