Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] to be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Everywhere I go people expect me to be the happy person they see on TV . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , yeah , but they do n't exactly consider you to be the greatest thing since sliced bread , now do they ? ’ she opined . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've some wonderful news , ’ said Phil , ‘ and I want you to be the first to know . |
| 4 | He wants her to be the top model in the world . |
| 5 | I think you 'll find he wants him to be the best player in Scotland and NOT England |
| 6 | Yes , but can that just be the income , or has it to be the whole capital ? |
| 7 | Is the person likely to feel coerced , even although you may consider it to be the best course of action for the individual ? |
| 8 | I checked the engine number with Perkins ( whom I might add were extremely pleasant and helpful ) who later found it to be the 4236 , rated at 82 bhp . |
| 9 | And wherever he went in the city he found it to be the same . |
| 10 | B arcelona will be Mota 's last major championship run and she wants it to be the perfect platform to retire from the international scene . |
| 11 | We used them as demos but we cut them to be the real thing . ’ |
| 12 | DAMON HILL joined the elite band of Formula One drivers yesterday and then warned : ‘ Do n't expect me to be the new Nigel Mansell . ’ |
| 13 | For , after all , it was not humility that restrained her from believing herself to be at first sight infinitely interesting , for she believed herself to be the equal even of Clelia Denham : it was simply a deference to the law of probability . |
| 14 | And the only Church adviser with a constitutional right to speak thought that he would be wrong to tell the Queen the name of the person whom his instincts told him to be the right person . |
| 15 | but they 're bonded to different groupings so , for example , if one had something like this er , let's call that see three , page seven if I had something like that that central carbon there and when they draw these things at an exam paper , do n't expect it to be the central one . |
| 16 | As the carpet has been in satisfactory use for some years , we should not expect it to be the actual cause of trouble . |
| 17 | Remember that you 're going abroad because it 's different so please do n't expect it to be the same as home ! |
| 18 | Donard is the highest mountain in all of Ulster , and you could be forgiven for believing it to be the highest in the world when viewed from Newcastle . |
| 19 | Last year I took a special interest in Arrow , believing it to be the major threat to Transworld . |
| 20 | They have been chosen for the posts in other parts of the country because their employers consider them to be the best people for these particular jobs . |
| 21 | Frank shows himself to be the only ventriloquist to move his lips but not his teeth . |
| 22 | Cipollini , who recently declared himself to be the fastest finisher in the world , crossed the line in second place but with both arms in the air in protest over Abdoujaparov 's jersey-pull , which , say the race referees , occurred twice in the last half-mile . |
| 23 | And landlords and people of substance , who might normally offer charitable relief of their own , would certainly guard their purses as long as the government declared itself to be the great provider . |
| 24 | ICL now reckons itself to be the second largest supplier in the UK , John Bennett , ICL 's Director of Marketing Support and Communications told the audience at a recent briefing . |
| 25 | In a striking phrase , Enzensberger suggests that ‘ artistic productivity reveals itself to be the extreme marginal case of a much more widespread productivity ’ ( ibid : 46 ) . |
| 26 | Once again , Steffi Graf has shown herself to be the best player in the world by far — in more than one sense . |
| 27 | It is not the least of Russia 's current ironies that , just as the West is re-assessing the value of a market-led economy , belatedly suspecting it to be the partial cause rather than wholesale cure of economic ills , the arch reformers are adamant that salvation lies in a western role model . |
| 28 | To sidestep any arguments about who should inherit the party 's vast fortunes if a split occurs , the delegates declared themselves to be the legal heirs of the HSWP , whilst dissociating themselves from the old party 's ‘ crimes , false and mistaken principles and methods ’ . |
| 29 | And I believe them to be the some of the nicest maps I 've ever seen . |
| 30 | At the wicket he is a Roman general , unquestioning of his own ability to defeat the barbarians ; yet because the pride and haughtiness are justified by having repeatedly proved himself to be the best , one can not resent them , especially since he usually leaves them on the field of combat . |