Example sentences of "[Wh det] you [modal v] [vb infin] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you asked me to comment on potential weaknesses , and this is one area which you may consider to be worthy of some serious attention . |
| 2 | Always treat the caller in the way in which you would hope to be treated . |
| 3 | Suggest a set of sequences of assignment statements , which you would expect to be typical of programs involving arithmetic calculation . |
| 4 | Causing grievous bodily harm to someone now you might say that 's a very serious offence which you should expect to be prosecuted . |
| 5 | It is our intention to maintain a university of which you will continue to be proud . |
| 6 | ‘ … and the moral of that [ said the Duchess ] is — ‘ Be what you would seem to be ’ — or , if you 'd like it put more simply — ‘ Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise . |
| 7 | Perhaps the most moving sentence in the whole book comes in the last chapter as he takes his leave of his reader : ‘ For it is not what you are nor what you have been that God regards with his most merciful eyes , but what you would like to be . ’ |
| 8 | What you could do with is labelling these so that , which one of them is the first question , sort of pie chart A if you like then pie chart , pie chart A and again if you 've got the total on , on your pie chart then you , you wo n't get confused will you ? |
| 9 | But , what you can do at is the teaching certificate with the degree which is what I 'm doing . |
| 10 | What you should look for is evidence of good , consistent results over a period of 10 to 20 years . |
| 11 | Rarely musing : What you should try to be . |
| 12 | Yeah , I mean , what you , what you 'd have to be careful of is , is sooner or later people 'll catch on |
| 13 | They 've done before you realise it , and once they 're done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you 'd like to be and you 've lost your true self forever . ’ |
| 14 | I mean as long as we 've got something which is in the of where we want to be , we can actually measure how well we 're performing against our own plan , which I think is what you 'd like to be able to do . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , my thought for today is : " If you want to understand Greece under the Romans , read Polybius and whatever you may believe to be Posidonius ; if you want to understand Rome ruling Greece , read Plautus , Cato — and Mommsen . " |