Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] to [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Everywhere I go people expect me to be the happy person they see on TV . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , yeah , but they do n't exactly consider you to be the greatest thing since sliced bread , now do they ? ’ she opined . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've some wonderful news , ’ said Phil , ‘ and I want you to be the first to know . |
| 8 | He wants her to be the top model in the world . |
| 9 | I think you 'll find he wants him to be the best player in Scotland and NOT England |
| 10 | Yes , but can that just be the income , or has it to be the whole capital ? |
| 11 | Is the person likely to feel coerced , even although you may consider it to be the best course of action for the individual ? |
| 12 | I checked the engine number with Perkins ( whom I might add were extremely pleasant and helpful ) who later found it to be the 4236 , rated at 82 bhp . |
| 13 | And wherever he went in the city he found it to be the same . |
| 14 | I wish it was Friday I want it to be the weekend man . |
| 15 | Nowhere in particular I just want it to be the weekend so I can lie in bed . |
| 16 | B arcelona will be Mota 's last major championship run and she wants it to be the perfect platform to retire from the international scene . |
| 17 | We the local authority , I think people of Wiltshire expect us to be the lead agency in promoting sustainability and environmental , highlighting environmental issues , throughout the county . |
| 18 | He reported diligent perusal of the Dictionary and Figures and believed them to be the ‘ compleatest work of that kind extant ’ , but expressed his regret that many American plants had been omitted : he hoped to remedy this by sending specimens of growing plants within the next few years . |
| 19 | We used them as demos but we cut them to be the real thing . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | He mistrusted their new attendants , Dighton and Slaughter , believing them to be the tools of his enemies . |
| 22 | His cold and frankly hypocritical accusations against Diana , detailed in TODAY , reveal him to be the perpetrator of his family 's problems . |
| 23 | Of this person she could form no idea other than that Hugh believed him to be the owner of whatever was in the sack and that he was in some way connected with the outlaws ' Camp . |
| 24 | Tavett was too preoccupied with his fear that Wickham believed him to be the murderer to form any judgments . |
| 25 | And the only Church adviser with a constitutional right to speak thought that he would be wrong to tell the Queen the name of the person whom his instincts told him to be the right person . |
| 26 | The Aztecs believed it to be the ‘ sweat of the sun ’ whilst the Egyptians connected gold with their Sun God , Ra . |
| 27 | This became extended through the process of emulation , by which lower groups in the hierarchy sought to copy the higher groups , a strategy so fundamental that Veblen believed it to be the foundation for the concept of private property ( 1970 : 33–40 ) . |
| 28 | Remember that you 're going abroad because it 's different so please do n't expect it to be the same as home ! |
| 29 | Who would expect it to be the home of the biggest water-wheel in Europe ? |
| 30 | As the carpet has been in satisfactory use for some years , we should not expect it to be the actual cause of trouble . |