Example sentences of "[to-vb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , I was going to 've been Suzanne Brown , years ago , before he stole my bag . |
| 2 | I ought to I ought to 've been the bloody brainiest in country me |
| 3 | He argues the company has tried to monopolise the market by convincing customers that its relational database management system is effectively the computer , making it appear that all other functions and tasks the user may want to perform are bound tightly to the database — requirements that can only be met by other Oracle products . |
| 4 | But the approach is not adequate by itself : on the one hand , not all of the functions which government consciously decides to perform are public ; and on the other hand , there may well be functions performed by non-governmental bodies which have not attracted government attention , encouragement or participation but which nevertheless are of public importance . |
| 5 | ‘ The last two groups to perform are from Donegal and Leitrim . |
| 6 | Presumably it is much more likely that such a problem would be picked up by professionals involved in a family , but it underlines the fact that children who are failing to thrive are very much at risk unless they are being taken to the clinic , for example , or are being seen regularly in the home by a Health Visitor . |
| 7 | It may be for everyone who comes to buy a ticket , but those who do choose to go are a small minority of the population . |
| 8 | One of the first things to go are the costumes and articles of adornment which identify that culture with its roots . |
| 9 | Compaq Computer Corp says that the restructuring of its field and reseller support operations in the US to increase interaction with its broadened customer base and provide enhanced support to its resellers ( CI No 2,148 ) , will cost about 150 field employees their jobs , but the loss will be partially offset by an as-yet-undetermined number of employees to be hired at the company 's Houston headquarters as part of the reorganisation ; the 150 to go are the last of the 1,000 jobs that it said it planned to cut in October . |
| 10 | so I rang up the place and said I would like to go are you having another ? |
| 11 | Those Russians who choose to remain are pinning their hopes on him . |
| 12 | This had just opened the Sadler 's Wells Ballet 's first season at Covent Garden , to rapturous acclaim , but a month or two later John had decided that the costumes , ‘ although very gorgeous and great fun to wear are , in my opinion , far too ordinary for a ballet , they are more like costumes for a historical play … |
| 13 | All I have to wear are the same old rags I 've had for years . |
| 14 | The terms and conditions we should like to agree are : |
| 15 | The terms and conditions we should like to agree are as follows : |
| 16 | It is not that these things are in themselves opposed to religion , but the possessiveness and distractedness which they tend to promote are . |
| 17 | The effects of exposure to light are difficult to accelerate in the laboratory . |
| 18 | BIG savers with more than £30,000 to invest are offered 9.25% on the Select Gold Account at the Life Association of Scotland . |
| 19 | In nineteen eighty six treat people as if their labour is worth nothing you know those men have given their lives to the quarry industry and there 's no doubt that there is money to be made from slate at the moment and people are people that have the money to invest are making a lot of money okay they 're inves they 're risking the money but er people are risking their lives as well and giving their lives . |
| 20 | The first items that I wish to acknowledge are from Mr Norman Wheeler of Stokesay . |
| 21 | The worst to paint are insecure people , either outwardly or inwardly , ‘ you can feel that they are uncomfortable with themselves ’ . |
| 22 | They 're awful things to paint are n't they ? |
| 23 | Government exhortations to decentralize are ignored , largely due to the poor state of infrastructure outside the capital . |
| 24 | All a buyer gets to see are the sample boxes opened on the trading floor , on the strength of which he negotiates with the merchant . |
| 25 | That , in my own mind , though they can not be opened for the day to the public to see are gardens by comparison with which the most beautiful garden of this island is tawdry and unkempt . |
| 26 | At 82 , the few people one might wish to see are all dead . |
| 27 | I think it 's fair to say that with this new computer erm the box office that we 've got a lot of information can be stored on that and in future we 'll be using a much more erm sophisticated in a scientific way for instance if you came here and book that seat that your sitting in tonight we would know on that computer what type of show that your discouraging coming to erm we can say to you we can send you out a leaflet saying the kind of er things that you 'd like to see are on at the playhouse on such and such a date and we could even say to you would you like the seat that you normally sit in . |
| 28 | Many German works of art that were previously very difficult to see are once again easily accessible . |
| 29 | ‘ The warders you asked to see are here , Mr Nicholson , ’ his secretary told him . |
| 30 | ‘ There are more Senior tournaments in the pipeline , but what I want to see are more National Open championships . |