Example sentences of "to be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're integrating with respect to T so it 's going to be K it 's not going to be K X it 's K |
| 2 | They tend to be loners who dream big dreams , but they are conscientious , hard working , clever and get up early — is this you ? ! |
| 3 | These tend to be prisoners who are a problem for the discipline staff , either because they are excessively violent or because they are suicidal . |
| 4 | There are certain to be cases which do not fall within these guidelines , and these will cause problems until such time as " case law " has been established . |
| 5 | As with other effort to make an impact , if you want to be success you must have substance in your message . |
| 6 | In some cases population intermingled there 's bound to be conflict whatever happens , it seems to me that these problems can only be solved , first of all by ensuring that all eth ethnic groups have the right to their own culture , their own language , their own religion and so on and to exercise them in their own territory , but they 're not discriminated again in jobs and housing and education , er and then also as you say to help with state sponsored finance people who do decide that they want to migrate , that they do n't want to live in somebody else 's Republic , that they do want to move across the border into , as it were , their own Republic . |
| 7 | I think that 's true what Yona says you know it it is Cos you know I the sort of the political people of the town tend to be councillors who are er men mainly and set in their ways and think that because they 've got the label councillor behind you know b front of their name that they 're they are for life you know it 's And they 're sort of respectable inverted commas members of the community and you know and I mean I hope that out of out of all this I mean it 's it 's a shame it has to happen in such a desperate situation you know because I mean none of us can really feel glad that Because to be on strike is I mean each day is is hard I 'm sure for well I mean I can only say because to be close to people on strike it 's quite a unique thing really for me and i you become so involved and close to people and you realize how hard it is for them . |
| 8 | My problems are precisely the same as my father 's , but the climate 's different now : in those days , people who had large houses were thought to be plutocrats who ran society , the Establishment if you like . |
| 9 | so we 've got , if we do give them work to do it 's got to be stuff which they do n't feel inadequate to do . |
| 10 | The arbiter of taste in this instance has to be parents themselves , and much can be done to avoid unhappy experiences from the outset by determining preferences and approaches to the care of your child when your childminding arrangement begins . |
| 11 | ‘ I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances ’ ( Phil . |
| 12 | Henry 's defection to the charms of the nursing profession had finally made up Rosemary 's mind for her , and from now on it was going to be Hank-from-Texas who occupied all her thoughts . |
| 13 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 14 | One 's going to be shape I 've got a lot of material to go on it , we have n't made the backing . |
| 15 | His point is that the elimination of these transformations also eliminates the Faulknerian quality of the passage , and that therefore Faulkner 's style is distinguished by a heavy use of these transformations , which , in general terms , happen to be rules which introduce and condense syntactic complexity . |
| 16 | Now you 've er , you 've defined what you think is , what you consider to be Marxism which is the political aim , the strategy and of course within your definition er it 's so easy to er make a definition which suits your premise that er the Chinese Party was not Marxist . |
| 17 | This is not a very convincing solution , since most readers do n't feel that this a dramatic monologue , and take the ‘ I ’ of the poem to be Wordsworth himself . |
| 18 | Feuerbach 's position was more consistent : he was a philosopher who did not believe in God but was on his own admission passionately concerned with religion and theology , whose real object he held to be man himself . |
| 19 | For Acheson , who became Secretary of State in January 1949 , as for most of the Administration , Congress and probably most of the American people , and as a straight and simple choice , France was more important than Vietnam or Indo-China and more valuable than a party aspiring to be government which , in spite of impeccable anti-colonial credentials and its ability to present itself as all things to all men , was beginning to look more and more like an affiliated communist state . |
| 20 | One of your writers actually says : ‘ If there is to be government somebody has to pay for it . ’ |
| 21 | If there is to be government somebody has to pay for it . |
| 22 | He says there are obviously going to be officers who query the reason for it , but they do n't have all the facts as they magistrates do . |
| 23 | It must surely be significant that in an age when the evidence for women as writers is so sparse , two out of the five writers here discussed are women and that both present their spirituality nourished by physical debility , coloured by gender-specific terms , and very evidently rooted in the affective piety stimulated by the visual iconography of the Incarnation ; although both found these to be factors which precipitated their experience of transcendent being and for Julian , in particular , they triggered her sense of that which is ineffable . |
| 24 | But no , it has to be Matt who saves me . |
| 25 | Even if one rejected Mill 's answer to the question , ‘ What does it mean to say something is white ? ’ one might still hold there to be conditions which have to be satisfied for a colour-word to be used meaningfully . |
| 26 | The hallmarks seem to be conditions which are not drafted with any particular parties or transaction in mind , that are used for a series of contracts , and in respect of which the person who puts them forward does not expect much , if any , negotiation to take place . |
| 27 | This is to inform you all that me and my Companions have Unanamously agreed and likewise made Oath to Each other that if There is not a speedy Altaration made for the Good of the poore that you have corn thinking to make your fortunes of shall have it burnt to the Ground whether it Be in Stacks or Barns for the fire that took place Last Week was but the begining of your Troble , we know every Stack of Corn about this Country , and Every Barn that hath Corn concealed in it for the Purpos of starving the Poore But we are Determind if thare is to Be Starvation it shall be a General thing not a parcial one for both Gentle and Simple shall Starve if any Do . |
| 28 | Dot tried to imagine that the two women in front were her footmen and she was one of the royal princesses , preferably Margaret because she would n't have to be queen which would be quite a responsibility if you thought about it , going for a drive in a carriage with her regal dogs and her regal flowers . |
| 29 | Draft MPG6 makes it clear that coastal super quarries are considered to be sites which produce at least 5 million tonnes per annum with reserves of at least 150 mt . |
| 30 | Draft MPG6 makes it clear that coastal super quarries are considered to be sites which produce at least 5 million tonnes per annum with reserves of at least 150 mt . |