Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the threat of relegation looming again , the loss of the ground , and the millstone around my neck of a team of asthmatic pine martens with the collective brain power of a kiwi fruit , the pressures on me are building to a frightening pitch . |
| 2 | Two novels of the 1720s point the contrast in public attitudes to the American colonies of the two countries in an odd way : the Abbé Prévost 's Manon Lescaut and Daniel Defoe 's Moll Flanders are about prostitutes , both of whom are transported to the new world , but Manon dies from exposure in the arms of her faithful des Grieux after walking six miles from New Orleans , while Moll Flanders settles down with her fifth husband to reckon her net worth in cash and tobacco before returning from Virginia to London . |
| 3 | The hypotheses , formed after his observations , are many ; but most of them are related to the empirical findings of a long tradition and the world is spared a too individualistic interpretation of some of Nature 's more self-willed manifestations . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I 'll tell ye — nine hundred and ninety-nine of them are glued to the Holy Writ of Economic Theory ; the remaining one , which ought to be fixed on Ireland , is blind . ’ |
| 5 | I do not want my new friends to know I am connected to a boring man like you . |
| 6 | As I watch , I am quickening to the single thought that this man , for these few moments , is probably running faster than any other man one earth . |
| 7 | By wishes I am referring to the internal directions and aspirations that people have for their own professional lives and development : their preferences , their ambitions , their chosen career path , their enthusiasms and above all their values . |
| 8 | That is I think that when I refer to and when I refer to I am referring to the same thing |
| 9 | ‘ Unfortunately , his personal secretary said she did not think he could become actively involved , but I am writing to the Prime Minister Mr Major and George Howard , the Environment Secretary , seeking their support . ’ |
| 10 | I am attuned to the subtle traffic of the air . |
| 11 | I am listening to the hon. Gentleman with very great care . |
| 12 | At another Level , I am pointing to the hidden potential in the idea of critical self-reflection . |
| 13 | I am taken to an expensive restaurant in Makati , where the president of the company , whose name is Rudy , is throwing a gala dinner in my honor . |
| 14 | The schemata are gardens of meditation and when I think of poetry , I am taken to the far country of Li Po , and then I see Thoreau and Jnandas and Rumi and a hundred poets ; their images throng my mind and I am moved and tears come to my eyes . |
| 15 | After half an hour 's dedicated sales pitch , I find I am talking to a devoted collector of Hummel figurines . |
| 16 | I am addicted to the twentieth century . |
| 17 | I am responding to the supplementary from my hon. Friend . |
| 18 | Because I recognise you will have concerns I am committed to a vigorous programme of communication both at corporate and at local level . |
| 19 | ‘ I am come to the right house , then , ’ Theda retorted . |
| 20 | But , if I can take it ( given you 've stuck with me so far ) that I 'm preaching to the converted , then let me say that I think the GR-1 is a vast improvement on the GR-50 in terms of sound and ease of approach . |
| 21 | Now I 'm preaching to the converted here in terms of you you 'll appreciate we need copy . |
| 22 | And , with the usual fervour from the Ibrox crowd behind them , I 'm looking to the Scots to rekindle the fire that burnt inside them during the summer and keep Roxburgh 's World Cup dream alive . |
| 23 | " I 'm referring to a leading article which appeared in The Times concerning the Exhibition and which I should like to read you ( by a fortunate chance I happen to have it on my person ) . |
| 24 | I 'm referring to a single bedroom not far from it . ’ |
| 25 | I 'm referring to the Labour voters who allowed a Conservative to win by not voting Liberal Democrat , and the Liberal Democrat voters who allowed a Conservative to win by not voting Labour . |
| 26 | I 'm referring to the Russian stars Irina Rodnina and Alexei Ulanov , who set the skating world alight as partners back in the early 1970s . |
| 27 | However , it may incidentally erm come into the words that I use that erm er I 'm referring to the washed-over or other status of these two sites . |
| 28 | And the person that goes into the radio studio and thinks , ‘ I 'm talking to a hundred thousand people ’ or something like that , is doomed , because the voice and approach you use is a bit like the voice and approach I have now , I 'm sort of talking to a largish group of people . |
| 29 | But Newbon goes on to explain : ‘ He 's now gone and I 'm talking to the present managing director . |
| 30 | You 'll , you 'll see , I 'm talking to the Three-Nineties , er you 'll see a bit of a change since you were here before . |