Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if I did not like you very much , I should still want you to be manageress of the Maison de Verveine in London . |
| 2 | Oh , God , but he must really love her to be able to lower himself to this . |
| 3 | On the drive back he considered whether the man were guilty of something more heinous than drinking champagne with a rich young woman on an afternoon when his constituents might reasonably expect him to be in the House of Commons . |
| 4 | Much though we might sometimes like it to be otherwise , events unfold as they happen . |
| 5 | And of course , if you look at it er , logically , I mean , for a a woman to be tied up and kept in a room , you know , and kept prisoner all her life you could hardly expect her to be sane even if she did |
| 6 | You could hardly expect him to be ready to defend it , or give his life for it . |
| 7 | Those of you in the twelfth grade who are not graduating er we 'd also like you to be so come dressed nicely as well erm |
| 8 | It would always be a secret : even if the doctor 's wife died and the doctor married Miss Lavant it would still be a secret about the child that had been born , because they 'd never want it to be known out of respect for the dead . |
| 9 | My thighs and bum — I 'd definitely like them to be a lot smaller . |
| 10 | Generative linguists consider punctuation to be simply prosody and of relevance for the language — or they may simply believe it to be uninteresting . |
| 11 | ‘ The guy would obviously like you to be Senhora Haraldsen , ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ One would naturally expect him to be well fed . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I would still prefer her to be a doctor or an engineer , ’ sighs Safiqua , who is the one who usually fields family criticism . |
| 14 | I had assumed he would still want me to be his wife , and wondered why he did not ask me . |
| 15 | And if this list of disasters was n't clear enough evidence of our marital discord , I 'm sure that our body language — scrutinised by a knowing psychologist — would further reveal us to be living distant and quite separate lives . |
| 16 | Such cases are rare , though the Queen would probably prefer them to be nonexistent . |
| 17 | I would also like them to be sure which player was responsible for Hirst being sent off — his name 's Haber . |
| 18 | Carried away by his own eloquence , he said blithely that his father would surely prefer him to be married . |
| 19 | ‘ One would almost imagine you to be jealous . ’ |
| 20 | I would dearly wish him to be there and yet I would not impose on his convictions . ’ |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ You can hardly expect her to be . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | You can either work it to be doubled over to the wrong side or make a matching strip of plain knitting as a facing . |