Example sentences of "be [pers pn] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Neither , ’ he continued in the same gentle tone of voice , ‘ am I prepared to be cast as some Viking lover straight out of a Hollywood film , rampaging and raping so that you can put the full responsibilities of your actions on me . |
| 2 | ‘ And what am I born to be ? ’ |
| 3 | Am I judged to be a member of the human race , or classified as some lesser species ? ’ |
| 4 | Am I meant to be the centre of all this ? ’ |
| 5 | Well they 're we meant to be ? |
| 6 | In other words are you prepared to be totally persistent ? |
| 7 | Are you required to be persistent at repeating the same task many times ( phoning sales prospects , for instance ) or persistent in seeing a long , slow project through to the end ( overseeing a two-year training programme , for instance ) ? |
| 8 | ‘ Who are you meant to be protecting ? ’ |
| 9 | Are you meant to be here or you just ? |
| 10 | ‘ Are we authorized to be here , sir ? ’ |
| 11 | Only as long as old age is presented as an intolerable burden falling on the shoulders of the young are we persuaded to be pessimistic about the future . |
| 12 | Why are we expected to be stunned into admiration each day by the media , which invites us to ponder the fortune and greatness of those who are the most voracious consumers of the precious treasures of the earth ? |
| 13 | It prompts the question whether there is not something inexorable about the mindless march of technology ; are we doomed to be everlastingly in retreat before the insidious advances of electronic information systems ? |
| 14 | Not only are they perceived to be such , but they are . |
| 15 | Or are they expected to be grateful that after the hamfisted handling of Sir David ( now Lord ) Wilson 's resignation , Hong Kong is to be the possible reward for a loser in the game of political musical chairs ? |
| 16 | Are they taken to be prepresentative in some way ? |
| 17 | Is the quality of modern-day appliances really improving or are they meant to be disposable ? |
| 18 | are they meant to be mouldy like that ? |
| 19 | But a hundred things should have indicated to you that my father is a figure of unusual distinction from whom you may learn a wealth of things were you prepared to be more observant . ’ |
| 20 | The Nationalist and Uhuru were not commercial propositions , neither were they intended to be — they existed to give TANU and its government a mouthpiece both within Tanzania and in the outside world — but both were losing money more heavily than anticipated . |
| 21 | Such an acquisition of skills from existing practitioners , were it proved to be effective , might just be a defensible strategy for maintaining present levels of teaching quality ( assuming we would be satisfied with that ) . |
| 22 | Well , the trouble is you got to be the eldest and you were the eldest for such a long time |
| 23 | What 's she got to be scared of me for ? |
| 24 | Who 's he reckoned to be ? |
| 25 | Well what 's it meant to be like ? |
| 26 | What 's it meant to be ? |
| 27 | Mm , mm , mm where 's it got to be ? |
| 28 | The situations encountered during an MAS engagement are too varied for that ever to be possible , nor is it intended to be a substitute for discussion within the network . |
| 29 | Nor is it intended to be any kind of technological treatise . |
| 30 | Judges themselves claim this as their great virtue and only occasionally is it seen to be departed from . |