English example sentences with "be"

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I will be back soon.
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It's because you don't want to be alone.
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Sometimes he can be a strange guy.
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I once wanted to be an astrophysicist.
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I don't want to be lame; I want to be cool!!
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I don't want to be lame; I want to be cool!!
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When I grow up, I want to be a king.
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America is a lovely place to be, if you are here to earn money.
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I've always wondered what it'd be like to have siblings.
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It would be something I'd have to program.
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I don't intend to be selfish.
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I may be antisocial, but it doesn't mean I don't talk to people.
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I think it is best not to be impolite.
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I'd be unhappy, but I wouldn't kill myself.
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I am a flawed person, but these are flaws that can easily be fixed.
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Maybe it will be exactly the same for him.
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My computer has got to be useful for something.
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Can it be phrased in another way?
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I found a solution, but I found it so fast that it can't be the right solution.
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Next thing you know, you'll be in the papers.
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How could I be a robot? Robots don't dream.
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You'd be surprised what you can learn in a week.
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Bearing can be unbearable.
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There will always be things I will never learn, I don't have eternity before me!
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It can't be!
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I wish I could care more about my grades but it seems that, at a certain point of my life, I decided they wouldn't be so important anymore.
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"When will you be back?" "It all depends on the weather."
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Their communication may be much more complex than we thought.
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It may be that the happiness awaiting us is not at all the sort of happiness we would want.
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Communism will never be reached in my lifetime.
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This will be a good souvenir of my trip around the United States.
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It would be fun to see how things change over the years.
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To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
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To be perfect she lacked just one defect.
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I have to go shopping. I'll be back in an hour.
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Better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you're not.
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What would the world be without women?
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It would be so cool if I could speak ten languages!
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It will take five to ten years for the technology to be ready.
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He would be glad to hear that.
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The past can only be known, not changed. The future can only be changed, not known.
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The past can only be known, not changed. The future can only be changed, not known.
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Anything that can be misunderstood will be.
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Anything that can be misunderstood will be.
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Any universe simple enough to be understood is too simple to produce a mind able to understand it.
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In a dictionary like this one there should be at least two sentences with "fridge".
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An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his field, and how to avoid them.
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Don't worry, be happy!
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Half an eye is very useful actually, because an animal can see half of another animal, which wants to eat it, and can get out of the way, and it will eat the animal, which has only one-half eye or only 49% of an eye, because this to it will not be enough, and the animal, which was eaten up, will have no children, because it is dead.
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Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
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Be patient please. It takes time.
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An astute reader should be willing to weigh everything they read, including anonymous sources.
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When you send a telegram, brevity is essential because you will be charged for every word.
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I consider the Jehovah's witnesses who knock on my door all the time to be no different from religious zealots trying to force their beliefs on me.
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Professors should explain everything in detail, not be succinct and always tell students to go home and read their books.
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When both girls told John they had feelings for him, he was in a quandary as to which girl he should be with.
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The defense lawyer was confident that he would be able to answer the prosecutor's arguments in his rebuttal.
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Even if your sentences were actually senseless, you at least have the luck to be able to form beautiful sentences.
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I find words with concise definitions to be the easiest to remember.
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The depravity of the king's deeds lead the people to believe he was nothing more than a tyrant that needed to be overthrown.
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Sorry, I don't think I'm gonna be able to.
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I knew that today would be fun.
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The data suggest that the optimum length of a lecture may be 30 instead of 60 minutes.
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There cannot be progress without communication.
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I want to be more independent.
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Your secret will be safe with me.
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Can you imagine what our lives would be like without electricity?
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I am proud to be a part of this project.
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At this rate, we're not likely to be done before the end of the week.
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It would of course be cheaper for you to sleep at our place.
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Why did you wake me up to tell me something that big? Now, I'll never be able to concentrate on my work!
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There are things in this world which simply cannot be expressed in the form of words.
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Girls are more likely than boys to be malnourished, suffer poverty, face violence and be refused an education, according to a new report.
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Girls are more likely than boys to be malnourished, suffer poverty, face violence and be refused an education, according to a new report.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
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Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
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It's too good to be true.
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To be quiet in class is to respect other people's sleep.
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I hope he'll be able to come! I'd like to see him.
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I'd rather be a bird than a fish.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or a picture or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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Let's not be in too much of a hurry.
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I couldn't say when exactly in my life it occurred to me that I would be a pilot someday.
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I have a feeling you'll be a very good lawyer.
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You must be careful not to make him angry.
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It would be better for you not to ask him for advice.
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You must be a fool.
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You must be a late riser.
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You won't be late, will you?
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You must be back on Sunday at the latest.
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You ought to be ashamed.
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What do you want to be when you grow up?
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Do you like to be kept waiting?
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You will be up against many difficulties.
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You are made to be a poet.
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