Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the reason behind the payments is to placate high earners , some of whom are asking to be moved to overseas branches of their companies to avoid higher taxes . |
| 2 | When the remainder of the known fortified sites are plotted on a map ( fig. 7.1 ) most of them are seen to be distributed along three routes : |
| 3 | Witnesses said armed soldiers kept up an overnight siege at Kinshasa 's People 's Palace conference centre because the notes used to pay them are said to be cursed and are almost impossible to spend . |
| 4 | In Ireland a party that puts up several candidates in a constituency will easily predict which of them are going to be elected , which may and which wo n't . |
| 5 | ‘ Mandy , I suppose if you and I are going to be related there 's no hope at all I 'm ever going to be able to tamp down that irrepressible side of yours , is there ? ’ |
| 6 | I am delighted that he has chosen to introduce a Bill on nurse prescribing and I am honoured to be associated with it as one of its sponsors . |
| 7 | ‘ I am determined to be involved for my country and my own career satisfaction . |
| 8 | We are settled on the southern shore , called Belmont for the amenity of the situation , within a stout stockade I am causing to be built . |
| 9 | Although my brief has been to examine animal communication , I am bound to be asked whether the Darwinian approach can add anything to understanding the connections between what animals do and what we do . |
| 10 | She was a mutilated machine , and besides she has already forgotten him : I am meant to be comforted by that ? |
| 11 | I am waiting to be bathed in film . |
| 12 | If I am an undergraduate , the two basic areas of quantum mechanics and X-ray crystallography are not covered and I wonder whether I am going to be examined on chemistry and human psychology ? |
| 13 | I should be feeling disloyal to Fergus , I should certainly be wondering if what I am doing is right , and if I am going to be hurt . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm hoping to be changed back before I get used to it , ’ she said ( with considerable spirit , bearing in mind how hopeless she felt ) . |
| 15 | I 'm trying to be relaxed like Frank Edwards [ also of Repton ] and get a lazy jab like his . ’ |
| 16 | I 'm looking to be pushing because I , I I might ask them to get speakers in etcetera . |
| 17 | is taking his seat , I 'm causing to be handed out this plan . |
| 18 | ‘ Now sor , I 'm goin' to be tellin' yer sometin' . |
| 19 | So I 'm bound to be recognised . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm bound to be taken for the chauffeur , ’ he laughed out , mispronouncing the word with relish but he was not corrected as he hoped . |
| 21 | ‘ I tell thee I ai n't got a bleedin' farthing and even if I had I 'm expected to be working . |
| 22 | Cos I 'm going to be getting it mixed in future now . |
| 23 | Anyway , Jules , it would be silly to form attachments here in Paris when I 'm going to be living in London . ’ |
| 24 | That 's because I 'm going to be defeated ! ’ |
| 25 | I 'm going to be engaged at Christmas and married next year . |
| 26 | And if I 'm going to be leafleting thousands of people in conferences , or at least hundreds , |
| 27 | And now it looks as though I 'm going to be tied up with television work pretty regularly . ’ |
| 28 | I 'm going to be tied up with the cops , I expect . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I can see I 'm going to be kept fairly busy ! ’ |
| 30 | Look , I 'm going to be snarled up in another meeting in a few minutes . |