Example sentences of "to be [noun pl] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children were considered ineligible to be controls if they were a twin , were adopted , or had a serious congenital defect . |
| 2 | If childlessness is ‘ glossed over ’ and the couple adopt , they may feel insecure about their right to be parents when they have failed to have their own baby , which can lead to a poor relationship with a child . |
| 3 | Some of them even have to be parents when they get home where they see at first hand the pressures to supply children with fashionable merchandise . |
| 4 | I work with a number of young people who are aspiring to be writers and we have put together an anthology of Black women writing about their experiences from inside South Africa . |
| 5 | Whichever strategy is adopted there are going to be problems and it is important to be tuned into them when trying to interpret research in psychobiology . |
| 6 | His preoccupations seemed to be ones that I understand . |
| 7 | The presumption behind such arguments is that theists wish their statements about God to be propositions that it would be impossible to deny . |
| 8 | By contrast , non-kin and affines are presumed to be enemies until they are shown to be friends ! |
| 9 | When he was asked why he himself did not become one , he replied that all men wanted to be Senators but he did not ; he did not want to be the same as other men who were as the uncoloured cloth of the Toga but he wished to be the red , that small and brilliant portion which causes the rest to be comely and beautiful . |
| 10 | They are chosen to be soldiers because they are healthy , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Pretending to be soldiers or anything ? |
| 12 | The restriction of membership to regular workers means that less than one in seven private sector union members are women and the bulk of these will cease to be members when they follow the convention of ‘ retirement ’ to child raising by the age of 30 . |
| 13 | Industrial sites are so massive , having grown over many years without appropriate control , so that there are bound to be deficiencies and we aim to have them put right as soon as practicable . |
| 14 | ‘ Eat up , ’ she said , ‘ There were going to be potatoes but I got lost chanting mantras . |
| 15 | ‘ Arsenal , Manchester United and Villa have got to be favourites but you can not disregard the likes of Norwich , Blackburn or even Ipswich . |
| 16 | However , the policy has not been unequivocally successful , and it is interesting to note which contracts have turned out to be successes and which failures . |
| 17 | So we had gotten to be friends and it stayed like that . ’ |
| 18 | Continentals are unable to be butlers because they are as a breed incapable of the emotional restraint which only the English race are capable of . |
| 19 | Next month 's going to be flowers or something . |
| 20 | It does n't have to be draughts or anything . |
| 21 | It held , for example , that Italy was in breach of its obligations under the Treaty when it required that researchers employed by the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche had to be Italians because they were civil service posts . |
| 22 | Of course , that is what we have to look for , and , of course , there are inevitably going to be occasions when we are compelled to look for it outside the four corners of the language that the draftsman has used . |
| 23 | And , a a I mean I think we have , you know , to be feminists because we do n't want to be better than men , we just want to be equal . |
| 24 | We realised it was going to be years before it would be right . ’ |
| 25 | While there are also a number of texts that claim to be fabliaux but which are not now considered to belong to the genre , the common characteristics of the type ( described below ) are sufficiently clear for the same number of texts again to be identified with and added to the self-proclaimed fabliaux . |
| 26 | Me dad hates that song , well there was the two lads and two girls pretending to be sailors or whatever they were . |
| 27 | And er and then there used to be some houses what er we did n't live in one of them but there used to be a lot of houses what used to be railings round , and there used to be steps and you 'd go down the steps , into the And they used to c they used to live downstairs and then well of course when you 're in the house in the side the room they used to have another flight of steps to come upstairs to a l a front room or a lounge or whatever you mind to call it . |
| 28 | Obviously there has to be guidelines but we find cycling very compatible with quiet enjoyment of the forest . |
| 29 | You see , before that , that land behind us , before it was all built on , it used to be plots and you know the man coming up with the |