Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] to [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This girl 's dream to be on T.V. |
| 2 | Although Laura had great faith in Gwenny , she never doubted that it was a mother 's place to be with her child . |
| 3 | Or your inner Adolescent 's need to be in control , or to be understood ? |
| 4 | Accurately-timed aerial photographs of the water-line together with tide-tables gave contour maps of the beaches accurate to horizontal metres and vertical centimetres , There was very nearly a breach of security because of Bernal 's desire to be on the beaches by D + 1 . |
| 5 | Rostov was well able to appreciate Sandor 's desire to be on hand when the first of the series was tractored in . |
| 6 | Nevertheless it appears from the judgment of Thorpe J. , and I do not doubt that he was right , that a dominant factor was W. 's desire to be in an environment where , as she thought , she was in control and could cure herself if and when she thought it right to do so . |
| 7 | There was no need for the whole of the accused 's body to be in the building : the top half was in a shop-front display , the bottom half outside . |
| 8 | The memorable part of the meeting had been Lowell 's eagerness to be with her . |
| 9 | Retailers with power will , perhaps less commonly , use it to invoke restraints such as slotting allowances for the right of a manufacturer 's product to be on the shelves of a supermarket . |
| 10 | Worse , the end of communism removed Greece 's claim to be of special interest to the democracies of the West . |
| 11 | Two of the best pieces here are Emeric Pressburger 's entrancing memoir of his Berlin hobo days in the 1920s , and the cinematographer Nestor Almendros 's insights into what a woman needs to become a screen goddess ; neither helps justify the book 's claim to be about what is happening in movies now . |
| 12 | But it went further than that : Ceauşescu was anxious to assert Romania 's claim to be among the leaders of the underdeveloped countries . |
| 13 | Julia was horrified , thinking that the last thing David 's mother would want to hear just then would be about another woman 's wish to be with her husband . |
| 14 | But there are only limited facilites for them stay in the children 's ward to be near their daughter . |
| 15 | It is not a sign of high status in a man 's world to be in charge of women only , but I have to confess that I did n't find it unpleasant . |
| 16 | The changes in Eastern Europe were recognised in last year 's survey to be of long term importance only . |
| 17 | I remembered the monster 's promise to be with me on the night of my wedding . |
| 18 | Ianthe was also dismayed , for she had expected Sophia or some other female member of St Basil 's congregation to be on the doorstep . |
| 19 | She understood from her mother on her last visit that Carmella had moved to New Jersey after Uncle Mick 's death to be near her sister , and that Noreen was helping Sean and Michael in their new business . |
| 20 | The man 's too bowled over by Dysart 's politics to be of the slightest — ’ |
| 21 | Yes , ma'am , I understand ; and I have worked with children before … well , when I was at the nuns ’ school , it was part of the older pupils ' duty to be in charge of two or three of the younger ones to see they washed properly and … well , things like that , and just before I left I was doing this . ’ |