Example sentences of "[pers pn] to [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deliver it to your home Well , what I to is the erm , getting involved in . |
| 2 | ‘ Nicole and I are getting married , ’ said Sir Vivien , ‘ and we wanted you to be the first to know . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , yeah , but they do n't exactly consider you to be the greatest thing since sliced bread , now do they ? ’ she opined . |
| 4 | But I wanted you to be the first I told . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've some wonderful news , ’ said Phil , ‘ and I want you to be the first to know . |
| 6 | I as a taxpayer pay money for clever chaps like you to be the production engineers of the Cabinet system of government . |
| 7 | You will also have made a discovery that what seems to you to be the main features or focus may be seen differently by other people with whom you come in contact . |
| 8 | Underline what seem to you to be the main or key words in the passage , including all names and any words beginning with capital letters . |
| 9 | The struggle to recover the sense of relation to nature and to God , the recognition that even the most primitive feelings should be part of our heritage , seems to me to be the explanation and justification of the life of |
| 10 | This discussion of the primacy of communal property is a point central to Marx 's whole work , and the pleasure he gained in its confirmation in the work of Morgan seems to me to be the only really clear element to emerge from the notebooks . |
| 11 | The recorded destruction of documented Modern buildings , or their determined neglect seem to me to be the only two ways in which DOCOMOMO can remain true to the spirit of Modern architecture while communicating with representatives of the all-powerful museum culture that has architecture in its grip . |
| 12 | He still seems to me to be the same person now as he was when we first started working with them . |
| 13 | He did not ask for mercy ; he did not plead extenuation : he was here , he said , ‘ to invite and cheerfully submit to the highest penalty that can be inflicted upon me for what in law is a deliberate crime , and what appears to me to be the highest duty of a citizen ’ . |
| 14 | And this seems to me to be the clue . |
| 15 | It is partly , it goes without saying , that I 'd like another sentient being who imagines me to be the centre of the universe , but it 's more than that . |
| 16 | ‘ Everywhere I go people expect me to be the happy person they see on TV . |
| 17 | DAMON HILL joined the elite band of Formula One drivers yesterday and then warned : ‘ Do n't expect me to be the new Nigel Mansell . ’ |
| 18 | We come here to what seems to me to be the central dilemma in second language pedagogy : the conditions appropriate for acquiring communicative resources are different from the conditions of their use . |
| 19 | What I discovered at this point , was that they , my Thai co-workers , also expected me to be the teacher for this newly organised project ! |
| 20 | It was from the Machine Knitters Association of Western Australia , inviting me to be the principal demonstrator at their seminar in January 1992 . |
| 21 | The intention to make a graphic verisimilitude of appearance has no virtue in itself , nor does it seem to me to be the most important reason for spending long hours working directly from the subject . |
| 22 | They are ways which , in the light of the previous two hundred years of intellectual engagement with these areas , seem to me to be the most fruitful . |
| 23 | Moderator I declare my interest as a member of the panel on doctrine but I wanted to enquire whether Professor would be willing to include not only the problem of anti-semitism but what seems to me to be the opposite problem which also exists today , which is the problem of Zionism . |
| 24 | The reason I went into physics and what I try to inculcate is that the ideas themselves are interesting and that seems to me to be the main justification for it , so that when people try and justify scientific research by saying it 's good for the economy , the country and so on , or who knows what applications are going to come of it , I 'm inclined to sit rather quietly when that 's said because I 'm not convinced that some of the research that is done nowadays can have any practical application at all in that direct sense . |
| 25 | That seems to me to be the fundamental distinction , and should be fully preserved . |
| 26 | This seems to me to be the minimum information necessary if the order is to be capable of restoring the parties to their former positions . |
| 27 | Rich and protean , his word-seam seemed to me to be the very fount of knowledge itself , a mulchy conceptual bed which might be sown merely by the fact of being listened to , thus engendering all ideas for all time . |
| 28 | He seems to me to be the symbol of innocence . |
| 29 | Not just because it would ruin the trust that my relationship is built on and that I so much believe in , but because being unfaithful would require me to be the kind of woman I choose not to be . |
| 30 | I have already put a good deal of stress upon two contrasted aspects of what seems to me to be the central paradox of anthropology considered as an intellectual discipline . |