Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They expected me to be a lawyer too . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Plus ça change : in the 1990s these words ( apart from their dated gender references ) remain as relevant and as enlightening as in the 1970s and at the beginning of the century : the problem of poverty is the condition of the normal man [ and woman ] in normal circumstances , neither better nor worse off than his [ or her ] neighbours , not of those whose failings qualify them to be the text for the moralist , and who are no more common in the manual working-classes than in other sections of the society . |
| 5 | You would consider them to be a sign of weakness ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Everywhere I go people expect me to be the happy person they see on TV . |
| 7 | Dudek flicked over the pages , found them to be a little better , but still somewhat hum-drum . |
| 8 | During the strike , the police found them to be a useful device with which to restrict the freedom of movement of pickets . |
| 9 | In some cases , important labour market actors are uncertain of them , and in the course of certain of our case studies [ see Chapter 7 ] we found them to be a source of confusion . |
| 10 | I was a Sunday School teacher erm when I was in my secondary school and I wondered what God would want me to do with my life when I left school and I thought maybe he wants me to be a missionary and I thought it was only teachers and doctors that could be missionaries I was wrong was n't I ? |
| 11 | He wants me to be a witch . |
| 12 | This led him to assert that , in spite of ‘ the gross and grievous abominations ’ of Rome , ‘ yet touching those main parts of Christian truth wherein they constantly still persist , we gladly acknowledge them to be the family of Jesus Christ ’ . |
| 13 | To know someone to be a gouger gives some policemen and women cause to believe that they have the excuse to ignore the minor requests for assistance that the person may make , and for his or her minor infringements of the law to be taken seriously . |
| 14 | Lotze 's sentence was , however , above the nine years requested by the prosecution ; the court did not consider his to be a true case of state 's evidence , since it had neither led to further arrests nor prevented a crime . |
| 15 | He may consider himself to be a latter-day President Kennedy , or be tempted to follow the pro-IRA line taken by Senator Edward Kennedy . |
| 16 | But apart from his rugby chores , McBride will be stretching his maternal instincts to the limit — He 's gearing himself to be a father for the first time in October . |
| 17 | But they will be designed to encourage you to be a long-term holder rather than to enable you to take a quick profit . |
| 18 | I had n't expected you to be a bit as you are . " |
| 19 | In all things I expect you to be a lady . |
| 20 | We 're going to train you to be an executive , not some zombie-clerk in Stores . |
| 21 | Ask the average person how much time they put into training their voice or obtaining feedback about the effect of their voice on others , and they will probably consider you to be a little mad . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , yeah , but they do n't exactly consider you to be the greatest thing since sliced bread , now do they ? ’ she opined . |
| 23 | ‘ I want you to be a good little girl and go home to Mummy and Daddy while I finish the season . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've some wonderful news , ’ said Phil , ‘ and I want you to be the first to know . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ Lord Hunt will be looking at these and many other areas in which we expect there to be a lively public debate . ’ |
| 26 | They 've been living for the last ten years in an environment where they expect there to be a high level of occult activity in society . |
| 27 | We thus expect there to be a significant region right next to the wall in which the velocity profile is linear , |
| 28 | Erm so I all we 're trying to do now at the moment though is , is to , to operate from the point of view of saying look , if you actually take all these things into account , we should n't be worse than we were ultimately , once these systems have bedded in , we 're doing more checking on letters for example th than , than we w we wo n't have to once we 've checked through the first two months of auto-offs , and we 're getting used to the new reports and so on and that sort of stuff , so we expect there to be a blip , but you would expect a learning curve in anyway . |
| 29 | I found a little bit of string choking on the upper three frets and on inspection , found there to be a slight bow to the neck . |
| 30 | One prisoner , condemned to transportation , found there to be no ship leaving for Botany Bay in the near future . |