Example sentences of "[pron] to [be] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the last few months as we have got to know him better , he has shown himself to be exactly the sort of person we had hoped Annabelle would marry — charming , sincere , reliable — with a clear idea of what he wants from life and how to achieve it . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't suppose Mr Trumper will expect you to be there every morning at four thirty , ’ she laughed ‘ Just until he 's got back in the swing of things . |
| 3 | Lord Roskill 's emphasis on the necessity for there to be both a removal from the shelves and a label-switching does not deal with the dishonest label-switcher who has not removed the goods from the shelf . |
| 4 | But the sort of criticism that says ‘ if we want to achieve X , I believe we are going the wrong way about it , what we ought to be doing is Y ’ , seems to me to be exactly the approach that is needed . |
| 5 | Luckily , though , Ven , while well-mannered throughout , seemed to her to be otherwise a shade preoccupied . |
| 6 | It is true that extensive reviews of research in the United States ( Lipton et al. , 1975 ) and in Britain ( Brody , 1976 ) found it to be generally the case that different penal measures had similarly unimpressive outcomes in terms of re-offending , but they also found examples of reformative programmes which seemed to work to some extent with certain groups of offenders ( see Palmer , 1975 ) . |
| 7 | As we have stood enraptured on the mountain peaks , threaded our way through the bosky dells and trod for many a mile the vast moorlands , we have often felt it to be indeed a land of glory and beauty . ’ |
| 8 | I know it 's done in offices all the time , but I found it to be quite a project . |
| 9 | If you believe yourself to be simply an animal without an immortal soul but you also believe that you are capable of making moral judgements , you will need to ask yourself whether cats and mice and birds and insects are also capable of making moral judgements . |