Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [vb pp] to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am determined to be a healing factor who brings people together . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm bound to be a marked man because of the goals I 've scored this season , but there will be more along soon — I 'm sure of that . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm a sister , so I 'm bound to be a dragon . ’ |
| 4 | But there , at my age , I 'm permitted to be a little foolish . |
| 5 | Me , I 'm meant to be a Catholic . |
| 6 | I 'm meant to be an actor . |
| 7 | I was scheduled to be a member of that crew and had been issued with my kit , overseas bag etc and was delighted to have been chosen for the ‘ jolly ’ , but someone ‘ pulled rank ’ and took my place , thus saving my life and losing his . |
| 8 | ‘ I was born to be a Headmaster so that 's what I was called . |
| 9 | Sometimes I think I was intended to be an only child , and got born into a large family by a mistake . |
| 10 | I cursed myself for lack of balance ; I was determined to be a professional dancer . |
| 11 | I was asked to be a coachman for Cinderella with my best friend , of course I was very excited and as the time grew nearer my costume was made and fitted . |
| 12 | The satisfaction with which the new prayer book was received and used quickly resulted in a request that the Burmese hymn book should be revised and enlarged , and I was asked to be the editor and secretary of the small revision committee . |
| 13 | Anyway this boy and I was judged to be the most original and the best you see . |
| 14 | As soon as my mother saw the train on its way , we took the renowned Edinburgh cable car to a photographer at Piershill to have my very first picture taken , which was a shouted instruction as my father disappeared into the darkness of a Princes Street tunnel and the acrid smoke of what I was told to be a " Puffing Billy " . |
| 15 | But I just got one thing that I want , that they gon na send me owt dodgy like a loan shark bloke or owt like that , I mean you , you 're bound to be a bit nervous , you know . |
| 16 | At Liverpool clubs , the toilets are full of catsuited girls who look at you as if you 're rumoured to be a child molester . |
| 17 | But , generally speaking , you 're expected to be a self-starter at college . |
| 18 | It was a closed community with the habit of passing down ultimatums — for example , you were created to be a wife and mother . |
| 19 | From the moment I could understand the human voice 1 — and I expect most of my generation — was told to be ‘ seen and not heard ’ … ‘ consider others before yourself ’ … ‘ never complain' and if you were a boy child , then you were exhorted to be a man , to show no emotion , and not to be a sissy . |
| 20 | In that era , notes Forster , if you had ‘ Venetian ’ tendencies , you thought it was because you were meant to be a man and that there had been some mistake . |
| 21 | Turns out , Deardrie , she 's applied to be an astronaut — I remember seeing the advert , asking for people to go to the moon — it 's not that I 'm jealous , but why did n't she ask me first ? |
| 22 | TV funnygirl Pamela Stephenson demonstrates that she 's determined to be the star of this show . |
| 23 | She 's said to be the daughter of a English general and apparently very beautiful … a good bit younger than him , of course . ’ |
| 24 | Well she 's meant to be a real bitch anyway . |
| 25 | Interaction between judges is probably more significant in the United States with the stable membership on the Supreme Court , but even in Britain the phenomenon of ‘ opinion deference ’ , whereby one or more judges defers to the opinion of another because he or she is acknowledged to be an expert or to have seniority , is not unknown . |
| 26 | She 'd hate to be thought of as a seer , but maybe she is destined to be a figure like Morrissey or Ian Curtis , someone whose vision of adolescence comes to represent all our experience . |
| 27 | She is determined to be a good mother to me as well as Papa 's wife . |
| 28 | The Other Woman has a category to herself in Silhouette 's construction of the necessary elements of the romance novel , an indication of the extent to which she is considered to be an essential ingredient : ‘ The Other Woman Usually means over sophisticated , well groomed . |
| 29 | ‘ Then she was asked to be the local carnival queen . |
| 30 | Though he allowed himself no fewer than four books ( She , Ayesha , She and Allan and Wisdom 's Daughter ) in which to analyse this character , he never seems to have decided exactly what she was meant to represent or how far she was intended to be a symbol of the ‘ world 's desire ’ . |