Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] be [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is like asking a Jew to apologize for being a Jew . ’ |
| 2 | differentiate that so the big the first thing to go for is the power is one less and then |
| 3 | He 's the one who taught in Ohio me the important things I needed to know about being a man . ’ |
| 4 | Sooner or later I want to acquire the full range of British birds of prey , and the next bird I hope to work with is a goshawk . |
| 5 | The only thing there is to work upon is the present and past . |
| 6 | He could n't see that of course poor Jean-Louis liked me , of course he was sexually attracted , but there was this other thing , it was n't really shyness , it was a determination to try to be a priest and to live in the world . |
| 7 | By 1991 Rhône-Poulenc had achieved this — ‘ we wee beginning to try to be the leaders in terms of quality and performance ’ , said Landau . |
| 8 | Furthermore , Mary is scarcely a woman whom women today might be expected to find to be a symbol who represents them . |
| 9 | Although he blamed himself rather than the department for his own failure , making comments like ‘ I 'm just not an academic basically ’ and ‘ I do n't think there 's a lot wrong with the course , if you want to do an academic course ’ , the path he saw himself as taking seemed directly opposed to the departmental ethos ; stating that he did n't want to do ‘ anything theoretical ’ , he told me that he wanted to train to be a nurse . |
| 10 | He had decided to train to be a reciter . |
| 11 | His stepfather , Mr Roger Cager , said yesterday that after the operation Simon had been able to pass a medical to train to be a policeman . |
| 12 | Three years after the death of little Henry Joseph , in January 1864 , William had been put apprentice to a gold-engraver in Clerkenwell , while Benjamin James , the academic star of the family , had gone off to Cheltenham two years later to train to be a teacher . |
| 13 | All you need to know to be a whizz at Commander Keen . |
| 14 | In theory , each of these has the capacity to know to be a medium and even large scale business , and to take on the corporate giants in the course of time . |
| 15 | She did n't think that it was her place to do so nor did she want to appear to be a burden to the man she loved . |
| 16 | This analysis of the dominant building styles of our society suggests that a set of representations derived from the interests and perspectives of a particular group in society not only denies access to this aspect of culture to alternative perspectives , but at the same time causes these representations to appear to be the image of those who have been excluded . |
| 17 | They force us to choose between being a part of or apart from the world of our everyday living . |
| 18 | The design we are going to talk about is a DIY design in that , apart from a 555 timer and 4001 NOR gate chip , discretes are used to carry out the various circuit operations and the system is capable of being modified for those who like a starting point and then like to experiment . |
| 19 | I mean that 's that 's one of the things I want ed to talk about was the relevance of archaeology to that sort of work I mean certainly I 've done surveying you know |
| 20 | WHAT TO LISTEN FOR Are the walls solid or can you hear the neighbours clearly through them ? |
| 21 | A major problem to guard against is the effect of the research itself . |
| 22 | ‘ Unless , of course , you want to volunteer to be a body . ’ |
| 23 | while speaking in ideology , and from within ideology we have to outline a discourse which tries to break with ideology , in order to dare to be the beginning of a scientific |
| 24 | The effect to aim at is a crisp , sugary crust with the contrast of a smooth , delicately aromatic and refreshing filling . |
| 25 | Newer cars to look for are the Citroen BX range , the Peugeot 205 and 309 GRTD , and , if your pocket runs to it , Renault 's smashing little Clio RN1.9D or Citroen 's brilliant ZX Reflex 1.9D . |
| 26 | But I think there 's a very strong argument Chinese revolution And , to a certain extent you can understand that people have to identify with something and the easiest thing to identify with is a king and a queen erm Chinese communist leaders of various sorts , Stalin even Karl Marx , you know , you can convince yourself that he had all the answers when of course , really , you must see these things as developing . |
| 27 | All she had left to clutch at was the memory of how she had felt . |
| 28 | Bass shift is already in , so all we need to look at are the gains and tones etc . |
| 29 | The next thing to look at is the monitor . |
| 30 | Downstairs in the basement , all they had to look at was the brick wall of the coal-hole with Mrs Parvis 's aluminium meat-safe hanging on it , and a line of smelly bins . |