Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [prep] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wants her to be the top model in the world . |
| 2 | I think you 'll find he wants him to be the best player in Scotland and NOT England |
| 3 | Yes , but can that just be the income , or has it to be the whole capital ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This paradoxical state of affairs is the result of three factors : due , first , to the large number of commanders who , like Wojciech Jaruzelski , trace their formative upbringing to the USSR and the Soviet organised First and Second Polish Armies of the Second World War ; secondly , to the social ostracism suffered by officers belonging to an army which prides itself on being the guardian of Communist as well as national values . |
| 6 | While that child is away , the organizer chooses someone to be the murderer . |
| 7 | Frank shows himself to be the only ventriloquist to move his lips but not his teeth . |
| 8 | ICL now reckons itself to be the second largest supplier in the UK , John Bennett , ICL 's Director of Marketing Support and Communications told the audience at a recent briefing . |
| 9 | So you 've got a way of analysing behaviour and what that leads you into is the ability to manipulate the consequences of certain behaviour , okay ? |
| 10 | In a striking phrase , Enzensberger suggests that ‘ artistic productivity reveals itself to be the extreme marginal case of a much more widespread productivity ’ ( ibid : 46 ) . |
| 11 | Experience at home and abroad shows it to be the responsibility of the governor of an independent central bank , not of a party hack . |
| 12 | We give the child two pencils of equal length side-by-side , and he correctly judges them to be the ‘ same size ’ . |
| 13 | For all the enigmas in his career , Wojciech Jaruzelski seems himself to be the prototype of what the USSR has come to trust most in the Polish military outlook . |
| 14 | He hates him for being the initial cause of his mother 's addiction and also the receiver of most of her attention . |
| 15 | She said angrily , ‘ How do you know that Emma suspects me of being the root cause of her troubles ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | What irritates me about Vienna is a certain not-quite-definable smugness , a feeling that somehow this place feels itself to be the centre . |
| 18 | The motivation of the person required to make the decision is likely to be totally different from that of the person offering the decision — yet too often the presenter of the decision imagines it to be the same . |
| 19 | The regime declares itself to be the only true guardian of socialism , but can offer no answer to what is happening elsewhere except to denounce foreign interference and to assert that communism must inevitably triumph . |
| 20 | But I mean you know he 's a workaholic and he expects everybody to be the same and then he works in there by the time I get there in the morning he works , works solidly right through until I leave there at night , you know . |
| 21 | But I think Oliver likes me for being the way I am . |
| 22 | It is clear from his critical writings that , to some extent , he considers himself to be the successor of Kafka and Camus : this influence emerges in his novels , Dans le labyrinthe ( 1959 ) — whose very title evokes Kafka and Borges — and his first work , Un Régicide ( 1949 ; published 1978 ) in which the atmosphere is very tangibly that of the absurd-cum-behaviourist novel ( see Smyth 1983 ) , even if in both cases the metaphysical is subjected to parody . |
| 23 | I think it 's a great tragedy that Wales considers itself to be the poor relation within the United Reform Church and the answer can only lie within Wales ! |
| 24 | That must vary from individual to individual and there is no need to say that simply to hold these views ( if one believes them to be the revealed will of God ) is in itself misogynist . |
| 25 | The KSR1 is scalable to 1,088 custom 64-bit CMOS processors and the company claims it to be the fastest computer currently available and deliverable , a full KSR1–1088 configuration delivering peak performance of 43 GFLOPS with 34Gb of memory . |