Example sentences of "i [be] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | You know Victor and I are to be married . |
2 | ‘ For your information , Lucy and I are to be married — as soon as possible . ’ |
3 | ‘ Lucy and I are to be married . ’ |
4 | If I am to be autonomous , God must go . |
5 | On Mr Gajdusek 's behalf , I feel he must mean I am to be impersonal in any help I give you with your problems . |
6 | I am to be married . |
7 | ‘ If I am to be disappointed , I should like to get it over . ’ |
8 | He said : ‘ I am doing it my way and if I am to be able to beat Alain Prost I want to do it on the track by out-driving him , not by any other means . |
9 | Some boys if I 'm to be honest , but we have n't yet worked out the right way of gong about it . |
10 | Many people have found its traditional keystrokes to be somewhat less than mnemonic , an opinion I tend to subscribe to , if I 'm to be honest . |
11 | If I were to be critical it would be to say that the scratchplates could be finished off more tidily , and occasionally the necks and bodies do n't look entirely new — although that 's hardly surprising , really . |
12 | But I was to be disappointed . |
13 | My father travelled to Nairobi by way of Mega , Moyale , Marsabit , Laisamis and Nyeri , all places with which I was to be familiar some fifty-five years later . |
14 | But I like to think they knew I was to be married . |
15 | How glad I was to be homeless . |
16 | One of the things they taught me was to be independent of doctrine , for their separate advice to me was contradictory . |