Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [prep] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Lords , that concludes my analysis of what I perceive to be the important British cases but before seeking to draw conclusions therefrom I must refer to certain Commonwealth and American cases . |
| 2 | December I want to be the longest-serving manager under Peter Swales . |
| 3 | ‘ I want to be the best ’ she explains proudly , ‘ it does n't matter how long it takes . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't think I have much else to prove … other than that I want to be the best player in the world . |
| 5 | I do n't want to be one of the best in the world , I want to be the best in the world , and everyone I come up against is a stepping stone to me getting over that bridge . |
| 6 | Why are n't I number one ? ’ , adding , ‘ If I 'm in the game , I want to be the best . ’ |
| 7 | Do you know how I want to be the Prime Minister of next year ? |
| 8 | And I 'd like to fight him because he 's undefeated and I want to be the first man to beat him . |
| 9 | ‘ And I want him to win because he 's unbeaten and I want to be the first man to take the H out of Holyfield . ’ |
| 10 | But I want to be the first man to achieve Football League status after a full playing career . |
| 11 | He 'd just become the first Briton to win two world titles on foreign soil and added : ‘ I want to be the first British fighter to win three world titles at different weights . ’ |
| 12 | Martin Luther King once said , ‘ I want to be the white man 's brother , not his brother-in-law . |
| 13 | It 's not that I want to be the ideal woman ; I 'd simply like to be able to walk down a street and not even think about it . |
| 14 | I 'm not here to be flattered I want to be the oldest . |
| 15 | In this way he saw that Man was truly made in the Image of God : ‘ The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception , and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM ’ ( Biographia Literaria , xiii ) . |
| 16 | ‘ I happen to be the only person here who believes we have to make a response at the European level , ’ Mr Radice said . |
| 17 | I happen to be the young man 's godfather . |
| 18 | And I seem to be the last person to have seen him . ’ |
| 19 | His conclusion that the case did not fall within the class of cases involving unlawful demands colore officii is in line with what I consider to be the correct approach as enunciated by Isaacs and Windeyer JJ . |
| 20 | I tend to steer away from what I consider to be the boring mainstream in cooking . |
| 21 | I turn , therefore , to what I consider to be the primary issue in this appeal , namely , whether there exists a principle whereby a subject who makes a payment in response to a demand of taxation ( or other like demand ) from the Crown which is unlawful either because it is wholly ultra vires or merely excessive thereby acquires a prima facie right to its repayment forthwith as money had and received . |
| 22 | I will say in moving that , would I note that the property services , the property sub- committee I should say , is receiving a further report on recommendations on how to preserve the long-term viability of the estate , which I consider to be the right priority , erm , the long- term viability of the estate is essential for the value both as an estate and for the value of it er , to us should we need to dispose of any of it for development land in the future . |
| 23 | Second , Sklar 's concept lacks a genuinely global dimension because it has no clear analysis of the cultural-ideological sphere , and in particular , it misses what I consider to be the fundamental significance of the culture-ideology of consumerism . |
| 24 | This contract is the one I consider to be the biggest one of my career as it will take me into my peak . |
| 25 | You will , I fear , have found my monosyllabic utterances rather unrewarding material for linguistic analysis ( which I assume to be the philosophical method you are following ) — and my frequent silences even more intractable . |
| 26 | I will not make use of the ransom theory in my retelling of the drama , but I shall cling on to the primitive belief , which I believe to be the correct biblical one , that God 's atonement in incarnation and cross was the crucial victory in the Great Battle not only over sin but also over the Devil and the powers of darkness . |
| 27 | But his speculation — so far only seen in outline , in a methodological ( and often polemical ) essay rather than in a series of detailed studies — point to what I believe to be the correct questions even if he does not provide all the right answers . |
| 28 | In this section , I will set out what I believe to be the basic characteristics of a flourishing , as well as an unsuccessful , approach to science . |
| 29 | All I can make out is what I take to be the outer port engine and that 's no help at all . |
| 30 | As he explains , ‘ Those immediate objects of perception , which according to [ some ] … are only appearances of things , I take to be the real things themselves . ’ |