Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] be the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking from the governor 's mansion in Little Rock , Arkansas , local boy Bill , said : ‘ I accept tonight the responsibility you have given me to be the leader of this , the greatest country in human history . ’ |
| 2 | This is one of the things that some studies have shown it to be the case , other studies have n't . |
| 3 | She had watched him working delicately on the door , with all the attention to detail of the perfectionist , and had known him to be the sort who got what he wanted in life through hard work , never by taking the easy way out . |
| 4 | ‘ I have never found it to be the case . ’ |
| 5 | To be fair , she could n't recall actually hearing him say the boat was his , but he certainly had n't corrected her when she had assumed him to be the owner . |
| 6 | Mait had trained him to be the personification of Death , his own private Baron Samedi . |
| 7 | A White Paper of July 1937 had stated it to be the government 's aim further to reduce the price of liquid milk to local authorities in order to improve distribution ; throughout 1938 there were discussions within the Board of Education , and in July 1939 a Milk Industry Act was passed . |