Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [prep] be [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't know how to be a person without a family to prop you up . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't know how to be a hero ! ’ he shouted . |
| 3 | More recently , of course , Hytner has become the internationally acclaimed director of Miss Saigon , but he claims that he does n't want just to be a director of musicals , or only of anything else for that matter . |
| 4 | Beyond this , what might appear just to be a way of illustrating how motets were put together — singing the two or three different , often highly contrasted melodies individually before putting them together as a polyphonic , multi-texted whole — may equally well represent a valid reflection of the manner in which they were originally performed . |
| 5 | ‘ And it was your grandmother who convinced you you were n't an ugly duckling , that you would grow up to be a swan ? ’ |
| 6 | She had defended this unconventional opinion , and undercut the threatened ostracism of her playground peers , by broadcasting her intention , too ludicrous to take seriously , that she should grow up to be a spacewoman . |
| 7 | She 'd hoped Bernard would grow up to be a priest : now he 'd taken up with a woman . |
| 8 | There 's nothing I want more than that my daughter should grow up to be the sort of person who gets along with everybody . ’ |
| 9 | She knew he had the Master Sergeant 's genes and she was worried he 'd grow up to be an adulterer , just like his dad . |
| 10 | Assuming admissible statements to establish parliamentary intention are limited , as would appear presently to be the case , to parliamentary statements , there remain grey areas in the application of the rule . |
| 11 | I guarantee that if one were to sit down , go back to basics , and argue through the parameters as suggested exclusively by the score , and not from one 's aural knowledge of the record catalogue ( and that hoary old chestnut , a ‘ classic ’ version ) , one would encounter a far greater consensus of opinion than would appear initially to be the case . |
| 12 | I did n't set out to be a sculptor but discovered at college it was much more of a natural thing for me . |
| 13 | Similarly , your subconscious can not try not to be a failure without first of all picturing failure . |
| 14 | This has to do both with what are called states of affairs , which we may take ultimately to be a matter of individual properties , and also what are called laws . |
| 15 | I know many children and I enjoy looking after them I plan to do this for my career as I have applied to Suffolk College for a place in the Nursery Nursing course so that I can go on to be a Nanny . |
| 16 | These short filmmakers are the people who will go on to be the Jarmans , Greenaways , Jarmuschs of the Nineties ; see their work now and tell your friends you discovered them first ! |
| 17 | From there , if you want to , you can go on to be an accountant . |
| 18 | However , this does not seem necessarily to be the case . |
| 19 | Neither can I pretend not to be a modern . |
| 20 | Yasmin says that she did n't start out to be a model . |
| 21 | ‘ If you get the right judge , it can help enormously to be a woman . |
| 22 | He wanted to be gone , even though Deuce made reassuring promises and Doug could one day turn out to be a friend . |
| 23 | The long line of leading Conservatives on the platform fixed their faces into expressions of interested concern , and prepared themselves for what could only turn out to be a surfeit of oratory . |
| 24 | The relative permeability may turn out to be a tensor ; it may take on very high values , say 106 or more , or it may have a value very close to unity , say 1.00002 for a wide range of temperatures , and then on cooling the material another few millidegrees unc may drop to zero . |
| 25 | Next morning , Folly woke up half expecting that it would all turn out to be a dream . |
| 26 | " Well , you might turn out to be a nuisance to Edward . " |
| 27 | ‘ The whole thing could turn out to be a mare 's nest . ’ |
| 28 | And with luck , it could turn out to be a bit of gang warfare which nobody is — unofficially , of course — ; going to bust a gut trying to solve . |
| 29 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that there will be swift Government action to remedy that situation and will he commiserate with the Leader of the Opposition about the fact that his and his party 's principal supporter should turn out to be a crook ? |
| 30 | If they were caught it could all turn out to be a mistake of course . |