Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [prep] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Everywhere I go people expect me to be the happy person they see on TV . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've some wonderful news , ’ said Phil , ‘ and I want you to be the first to know . |
| 5 | That 's right , but I mean all I want it for is the erm |
| 6 | I wish it was Friday I want it to be the weekend man . |
| 7 | Nowhere in particular I just want it to be the weekend so I can lie in bed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We used them as demos but we cut them to be the real thing . ’ |
| 10 | His cold and frankly hypocritical accusations against Diana , detailed in TODAY , reveal him to be the perpetrator of his family 's problems . |
| 11 | They have been chosen for the posts in other parts of the country because their employers consider them to be the best people for these particular jobs . |
| 12 | Simmel 's work has been selected on the grounds that I consider it to be the most convincing analysis of modernity consistent with the concept of objectification as outlined here . |
| 13 | The journalists in question consider themselves to be the media equivalent of the praetorian guard . |
| 14 | If that is the case that each of the political parties , as I assume is the case for er the Conservative party , I know it to be the case of the Labour party I assume the same is true for the Liberal Democrats and other parties represented in this house , that they undertake the very considerable organisational er er process of selecting candidates only to find a few weeks before June the ninth , that as a result of the difficulties that I 've described as far as the French government attitude towards these elections is concerned , that er in fact we have to revert to the existing arrangements and that we can not have these new er boundaries in place . |
| 15 | What these descriptions present us with is the concept of an impersonal Absolute or Ultimate and this is exactly what Gandhi wishes to convey for he has no hesitation in expressing a preference for the idea of God as formless Truth . |
| 16 | And I believe them to be the some of the nicest maps I 've ever seen . |
| 17 | Take the examples of these verbs suggested by Bolinger : ( 105 ) I believe him to be the man . |
| 18 | That spiritual dimension I believe to be of pivotal importance ; indeed I believe it to be the soul of the Green Movement today . |
| 19 | The report concludes : ‘ In short , we believe it to be the most complete undertaking , ( the Veterinary College excepted ) of the kind in the kingdom ’ . |
| 20 | I believe it to be the source of evil . |
| 21 | I have never seen this particular argument put forward in quite this form ; and I believe it to be the best argument for the ordination of women that there is . |
| 22 | I not only feel it to be the most relevant magazine to the industry I work in — the consumer finance sector — but have also found the appointments section excellent , especially as I secured new employment through it after being made redundant . |
| 23 | Thank you for being my guide and my inspiration , for being a wonderful father to my little girl and , above all , thank you for being the best husband in the world . |
| 24 | Change US to be the symbol you would like users to type to access the process ; eg. LSTRAIN or LST . |
| 25 | It introduces a wonderful idea , that strangers from afar find the Christ and discover him to be the Saviour of the world . |
| 26 | This record-breaking year , which has seen the men 's team collect the national championship silver medal and now prove themselves to be the best club team in the North augurs well for the future of the Darlington club . |
| 27 | I pride myself on being the hardest man on the planet but Dickerson has just reduced my bones to powder . |