Example sentences of "to [be] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They wo n't do it — they all want to be air hostesses these days . ’ |
| 2 | They are still at large and Scotland Yard has not ruled out their possible involvement in the latest attacks , but they are believed to be firearms specialists rather than bomb makers . |
| 3 | Oh , are they supposed to be teddy bears ? |
| 4 | A major objective of the project is to explore how media education can benefit those training to be church ministers . |
| 5 | During the Labour landslide they used to be love letters . |
| 6 | And national guidance does contain some fairly specific indicators of what is expected to be structure plans . |
| 7 | We are providing a great deal of advice and training for officials of different carriers — and not merely for British Airways , because we do not expect airline officials to be immigration officers ; that is not their function . |
| 8 | On March 21 and 22 , 1990 , Kurdish rebels , said to be KWP members , shot dead nine Turkish mine-workers on their way to work , while others burned down an elementary school in Yukarigungoren village in Agri Dogubeyazit . |
| 9 | He happened to notice that there were crystals which appeared to be mirror images of each other . |
| 10 | ‘ There will have to be reorientation courses as people change jobs , but we should be doing that now anyway . |
| 11 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Cunninghame , North ( Mr. Wilson ) pointed out , we in Scotland know that the words of some irresponsible sectors of the tobacco industry during the 1980s turned out to be weasel words . |
| 12 | In functional terms there do seem to be storage facilities relatively near the entry channels through the senses , those for the visual and auditory systems are called respectively the iconic store and the echoic store ( Wickens , 1984 ) . |
| 13 | The Act sought to preserve UK fishing quotas for UK fishermen by stipulating that UK-registered boats had to be 75 per cent British-owned and that 75 per cent of the crew had to be UK residents . |
| 14 | Because of their youth and vulnerability , and since they were less likely to be union members , apprentices and turnovers might be persuaded by employers to carry on working during a strike . |
| 15 | The bottles did n't have to be champagne bottles . |
| 16 | Right hydrogen and the carbonate so there 's going to be H brackets two C O three yeah ? |
| 17 | The necessary extra ingredient seems to be quantum mechanics . |
| 18 | Yeah , we got it and another time you see , when we wer when we used to be crane drivers , when we first started crane driving , the job for a crane driver was to do anything , you were a crane driver but if your crane wanted painting you would paint it yourself , chip to paint it . |
| 19 | Once the cells leave this position they cease to be stem cells and are committed to a pathway leading to maturation and death . |
| 20 | Pat has also asked me to thank those who gave their names to be pen friends and asks you to be patient as she is too ill to distribute them yet . |
| 21 | However , the women declined to be TPLF fighters . |
| 22 | Most bogs are full of tree stumps and used to be oak forests , like the Scottish moors . |
| 23 | Find another two people to be prayer partners with you once a week so that some of these prayer burdens can be shared and agreed on and so that you can be spurred on by each other 's zeal in prayer . |
| 24 | Bald , and with an attenuated El Greco face , he looked like a victim of chemotherapy — but also of a Transylvanian vampire , for his chin and neck were covered with what seemed to be bite marks . |
| 25 | By 1970 there were to be education departments in seven polytechnics in England and one in Northern Ireland . |
| 26 | As he explains : ‘ If I can successfully transfer what I believe to be management skills applicable to any discipline , then I would hope to follow a career path that will ultimately lead to directorship within an operations environment . ’ |
| 27 | there were there were riveters deemed to be shell men , or riveters deemed to be er superstructure as you say , where they worked on cases etcetera . |
| 28 | And the current target would seem to be rail travellers . |
| 29 | At the other end of the scale , alternations between the active and the agentless passive studied by Weiner and Labov do not seem to be candidate variables in any sense parallel to the concept of the phonological variable . |
| 30 | Although in the oases they made gardens , perhaps even carried on other spare-time occupations , they were forbidden to trade and did not have the time to be truck drivers . |