Example sentences of "[vb infin] to [be] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll need to be on the alert for any unusual eventuality , as your behaviour during this arduous time will govern future happenings . |
| 2 | Storage Directories may be anywhere on the VMS system on which LIFESPAN resides ; they do not need to be on the same device , or pseudo-device , as the Process Directory , nor do they need to be on the same device as each other . |
| 3 | Storage Directories may be anywhere on the VMS system on which LIFESPAN resides ; they do not need to be on the same device , or pseudo-device , as the Process Directory , nor do they need to be on the same device as each other . |
| 4 | The supply does not need to be to the ultimate consumer . |
| 5 | The masters in painting , Reid says , ‘ know how to make the objects appear to be of the same colour by making their picture really of different colours ’ . |
| 6 | Branson was as awed as anyone could expect to be at the first sight of their own Jumbo Jet . |
| 7 | Now what has happened in the last decade or so , through the advent of radioastronomy , is that we 've discovered that there are vast clouds of molecules between the stars and they 're just chock a block with very intriguing molecules , many of which are just the sort of things we would expect to be in the prebiotic soup . |
| 8 | ‘ You can not expect to be in the national squad unless you can prove that you are good enough , so I just have to continue the learning process , equip myself fully for the task , get a bit fitter and that , hopefully , will be at least half the battle ’ . |
| 9 | I 'd like to be on the lovely buses . |
| 10 | But he does n't remain despairing for long : anger soon reasserts itself , and I 'm certain I would n't like to be on the receiving end of a truly hostile glare from those eyes . |
| 11 | Heiden is one of those places which , though famous and well developed , can still claim to be off the beaten track . |
| 12 | They stopped beside the resting horses and looked down on the vale of Grasmere , a prospect described by great poets as an unsuspected paradise , depicted by painters as a jewel set in nature , sought out by the fashionable , protected by the sensible , evoker of sublime epithets , a small , ovaloid dream lake ringed by mountains proportioned in a measure which touched the intelligence as much as the eye ; if any one place deserves the description , then Grasmere Vale could claim to be in the very eye of the Romantic storm , in its beauty , its seclusion , its inhabitants and its capacity to draw in and draw out some of the greatest artists of the era . |
| 13 | The introduction of abstract concepts into Social Studies and sometimes into Science syllabuses at a very early stage presupposes a level of cognitive development which Piagetian research would suggest to be beyond the average capacity of Swiss children . |
| 14 | I would hate to be in the royal family . |
| 15 | Chris said it was obvious you would have to be on the right side . |
| 16 | Desire instead would have to be on the very ‘ surface ’ of a now largely de-differentiated psychic apparatus . |
| 17 | Note that unlike the Working Directories , a storage directory does not have to be on the same device as the Process Directory , but it does have to be on the same node . |
| 18 | Note that unlike the Working Directories , a storage directory does not have to be on the same device as the Process Directory , but it does have to be on the same node . |
| 19 | Of course the dictator would have to be of the right political colour , or he might shoot the wrong people . |
| 20 | This model did not have to be of the same sex . |
| 21 | It does n't have to be from the same range , but the pieces should have something in common — such as being in the same or similar wood or style , having the same upholstery fabric or the same colour . |
| 22 | I was careful to explain my own attitude to commissioned work — that in order for me to work it would have to be within the broadest of limitations . |
| 23 | The elderly do not always want to be on the receiving end , and any gift of food they offer us , whether it is a meal or just a pot of home-made jam , should be accepted with appreciation , for all such gifts are a part of the pattern of love in which they still wish to be involved . |
| 24 | ‘ There could be a final twist in the promotion trail and we do n't want to be on the receiving end . |
| 25 | What 's he want to be in the nude for ? " |
| 26 | ‘ A lot of people do n't want to be in the best band in the world because they do n't give a shit about themselves , ’ he remarks flatly , still playing with his half empty bottle of water . |
| 27 | I do n't want to be in the Daily Mirror . |
| 28 | ‘ Only Howard Baker could manage to be in the same room as God and not to notice him ! ’ cries Rayner Keat . |
| 29 | The most recent developments may prove to be of the utmost importance and to have the most lasting consequences . |
| 30 | How strong this support will prove to be in the last analysis remains to be seen , but Labour 's treatment of Mr Gould and its refusal to back calls for a referendum on the Treaty suggest that any hopes of altering the movement towards European Federalism remain with the Conservative Party . |