Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [prep] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they will be designed to encourage you to be a long-term holder rather than to enable you to take a quick profit . |
| 2 | He was n't going to accuse her of being a fair-weather boatman . |
| 3 | Perhaps it is the extraordinary popularity of The Color Purple that has led some critics to accuse it of being an uncontentious , sentimental and harmless piece of libertarianism , a family homily that is not just optimistic but eventually even utopian . |
| 4 | The first three gospels contain no reference to Christ 's having made any such great discourses as fill chapters 13–16 of St John , and since it seems unlikely that the author of the Gospel took notes during the utterance of this sublime discourse , we have to assume them to be a literary creation . |
| 5 | His relationship with the kids is one between equals , but they also seem to expect him to be a wise man , and this is what he sometimes expects of himself . |
| 6 | So when a shotgun propped in a corner is mentioned it seems " stock response " to assume it to be an expected item of a countryman 's equipment and consequently of no significance . |
| 7 | ‘ When a board decides to invite somebody to be a non-executive director , one of the questions it should be asking itself is : ‘ What value will this person add to the board ? ’ |
| 8 | Its aims and operations are still too loosely formulated to allow it to be the cohesive force it could be . |
| 9 | And it was a year in which we were able to declare ourselves to be a good research and teaching university . |
| 10 | Knowing that some foreigners , and even some Germans , would worry about a possible reversion to past behaviour , it has been at pains to show itself to be a reformed character not just by these qualities of good citizenship but by its guilty conscience . |