Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] [pron] to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | I would dearly wish him to be there and yet I would not impose on his convictions . ’ |
| 32 | And after her experience with Tony she would never allow herself to be imposed on that way again . |
| 33 | But with understanding had come a growing determination that she would never fall into the same trap — would never allow herself to be ruled by a foolish , hoping heart . |
| 34 | 2 ) We hope that you , Ingrid and Mauricio will play a full part in the conference , but we would specifically ask you to be responsible for |
| 35 | By contrast Mrs Cowan , s son-in-law said that it was no trouble to him to visit his mother-in-law every day and help take care of her , but that he would ideally prefer her to be in residential care because there she would have constant care and companionship , which was what she really needed . |
| 36 | The total sum might give you a shock but will also help you to be more ruthless at the start and put changes into effect . |
| 37 | Ask the average person how much time they put into training their voice or obtaining feedback about the effect of their voice on others , and they will probably consider you to be a little mad . |
| 38 | The prosecution will then know themselves to be in a position to prove identification from the outset , and a parade will only come into the picture if Spratt specifically requests one . |
| 39 | I will vow to you that I will never suffer myself to be engaged without your approbation . |
| 40 | We pray for ourselves , that You will never allow us to be complacent and forget our brothers , as we pray in the name of their Saviour and ours , Amen |
| 41 | From the available information , we can not tell how many of the 1160 deaths in 1986 belong to the 1946 cohort so we can only estimate it to be 1160÷2 = 580 and assume that another 580 of the 1946 cohort will die in 1987 . |
| 42 | Although the machine intelligences we create will be based on our own form of intelligence and an extension of it , we can nevertheless expect them to be alien in many ways . |
| 43 | ‘ You can hardly expect her to be . ’ |
| 44 | I 've an aversion to tale-bearing from my schooldays , but the man 's such a public menace we can hardly allow ourselves to be deterred by scruples of that sort . ’ |
| 45 | An obvious instance would be the contrast between the suggestion that although we understand the proposition that God exists , we could have no evidence that it is true , and the suggestion that the proposition is incomprehensible to us , and hence a fortiori we can neither know it to be true nor be justified in believing it . |
| 46 | You can either work it to be doubled over to the wrong side or make a matching strip of plain knitting as a facing . |