Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] be the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These phenomena are observed too often for them to be the product of the individual 's development alone . |
| 2 | ‘ It is n't convenient for me to be the subject of a whole lot of unpleasant rumours ! |
| 3 | You wo n't be staying here for very much longer , and I do n't want your last memory of me to be the way I was yesterday . ’ |
| 4 | If , as might appear on the face of it to be the case , ss20-24 can only be breached by actual acts , no difficulty arises with MDPs . |
| 5 | I as a taxpayer pay money for clever chaps like you to be the production engineers of the Cabinet system of government . |
| 6 | It has also , strangely , given my mother a measure of freedom — the freedom through him to be the sort of woman she had , perhaps , suppressed in a long marriage with four children . |
| 7 | For similar reasons , the new sociologists of deviance were hostile to what appeared to them to be the reduction of crime to a ‘ technical ’ problem . |
| 8 | He seems to me to be the symbol of innocence . |
| 9 | Now as someone who 's taught at other institutions — I 've taught at the University of Kent and at Middlesex Polytechnic — I think I was aware of the level of harassment which erm was there in those institutions , there certainly was sexual harassment , it certainly was a problem , but I have to say it did n't seem to me to be the problem that the students have identified it as being in Oxford and I think that 's striking and it 's something that erm as tutors and as a university we really do have to think about . |
| 10 | And this seems to me to be the clue . |
| 11 | The struggle to recover the sense of relation to nature and to God , the recognition that even the most primitive feelings should be part of our heritage , seems to me to be the explanation and justification of the life of |
| 12 | Indeed , the typical Greek tended to be backward-looking , since the future appeared to him to be the domain of total uncertainty , his only guide to it being delusive expectation . |
| 13 | It is to this domain that we conventionally ascribe our image of self and of importance , identifying strongly with our controlled ability to articulate what appears to us to be the content of our own will . |
| 14 | As the hon. Gentleman has raised it , I reply assuming that he has received the permission of the family for it to be the subject of a public exchange . |
| 15 | Yes , if you look at it in a certain light , as those philosophers are apt to who go on to say that there must ( 286 ) have been more than the sentence in my mind for it to be the case that I meant such and such . |
| 16 | For instance , what it is for there to be a red rose in this darkened room is for it to be the case that if I were to turn the light on , I would make a certain observation , and if I were then to move to another place , I would make an observation rather different , and if you were to come in , you would observe such and such , and so on . |
| 17 | Now so much more time has been released for us to be the church but at the same time we have nowhere to hide and nothing to blame ! |
| 18 | But without your support and your demonstrations and support from whites in other countries with the rugby demonstrations , the cricket , with all aspects that you 've done , you 've also contributed to making it easier for us to be the kind of people we would like to be and I hope in that way we therefore do share as a family and then try and create one world . |