Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] to [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the textuality of history , I mean to suggest , firstly , that we can have no access to a full and authentic past , a lived material existence , unmediated by the surviving textual traces of the society in question — traces whose survival we can not assume to be merely contingent but must rather presume to be at least partially consequent upon complex and subtle social processes of preservation and effacement ; and secondly , that those textual traces are themselves subject to subsequent textual mediations when they are construed as the ‘ documents ’ upon which historians ground their own texts , called histories . |
| 2 | I 'd say , whenever possible , you should always try to be in a position of strength . ’ |
| 3 | I must also admit to being at something of a loss to explain why Darren Bicknell continues to flit between millionaires ' row and Cannery Row . |
| 4 | Social workers should never have to be in a situation where a small child slips through the net and dies . |
| 5 | er , we 'll get it all sorted , you know what you like , you sit there and you think oh I want it , to get it all sorted before I go and move , it 'll just have to be in a tip for a while . |
| 6 | Approaching the fabliaux with a mind prepared to find moral instruction in the texts , however unpromising they might superficially seem to be for such interpretation , is something that we can reconstruct as an authentic medieval mode of reading — " " All that is written is written for our doctrine " " as St Paul has it — although there is little direct evidence for the application of such literary theory to vernacular literature as well as the classics before the fourteenth century , and even then the extent of such application is difficult to assess . |
| 7 | His line was that he 'd lost contact with Malcolm because he could only stand to be with him for so long at a stretch . |
| 8 | He was stationed in an old chapel in Chuckery because the Americans once they 'd started they were putting them everywhere or anywhere they could just get to be with them before V Day they were even in little chapels , churches , outhouses anywhere they could possibly and there were guns and bits of trucks on every spot of land where they could get them the er , I 'm getting out of context I was just thinking about a tank , a First World War tank that they used to have those as well in the field gun in the er arboretum which were disappeared soon after the war they went for scrap and they came and they used , people used to have a lot of wrought iron railings as well they took those as well they came along with burners and went off to the war effort , but er like I say the Americans and of course as kids they were very generous with kids and we absolutely loved them . |
| 9 | Room temperature is around about three hundred kelvins , but why we call it absolute is it , erm the lowest temperature one could ever get to is in fact designated as zero . |
| 10 | I 'd really like to be in there . |
| 11 | You think you 'd quite like to be with animals would you ? |
| 12 | Tom put his arm on my shoulder and said , with tears in his eyes , ‘ There 's one man I 'd dearly love to be in that stand — my daddy . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I would so like to be with people . ’ |
| 14 | During the next fortnight , she divided her attentions equally between him and Dunbar , but , she whispered to Harry one evening in the back of the Bentley , she would much prefer to be with him and she was being nice to Pogo only because she did n't want to hurt his feelings . |
| 15 | And she knew that if she had been made welcome from the start , she would still want to be with them , in spite of this comparative luxury . |
| 16 | ‘ I would still like to be in charge in Dublin in 1995 when we host the European championships . ’ |
| 17 | The value of the grand unification energy is not very well known , but it would probably have to be at least a thousand million million GeV . |
| 18 | However as in the sentry the message of hope is a false one and the soldiers died anyway , while the snow in the phrase ‘ until this morning and this snow ’ is assuredly a description of the same it would also appear to be in contrast to the warm sun as death is the contrast to life and the day the soldier is brought out the sun fails to wake him and there is snow . |
| 19 | The best approach would now seem to be by a huge tidal boulder hop from Blackchurch , or by canoe . |
| 20 | If we could know both where a particle was and also what it was doing , it would then have to be in a state which was simultaneously an eigenstate of the position operator x and also an eigenstate of the momentum operator p . |
| 21 | Any duty owed to such a person would therefore have to be at common law . |
| 22 | A clear recommendation would therefore seem to be in the order for the Muti recording , but unfortunately EMI appears to have delated it . |
| 23 | It would certainly appear to be of a representative or commemorative character however , which would make it one of the earliest of such scenes in Britain ( the most likely candidate for this honour is a possible chariot scene , from Exeter : Bidwell 1979 , pI . |
| 24 | Well then , I thought , if I believed in such a being which I had to confess I once did but no more — He ( She or It ) would certainly have to be on my side now , the game working out as it had . |
| 25 | Even if he is not frightened , he will still have to be on guard at all times — just in case you jump out and attack . |
| 26 | Boys will usually want to be like their fathers when they grow up , girls to be like their mothers . |
| 27 | He says not going to fight the decision.But will always want to be in the theatre . |
| 28 | Where two tractors are of equal power , the heavier will probably need to be in a lower gear to pull the same weight . |
| 29 | One or two members , if plied with enough alcohol , will even admit to being in yer actual RAF . |
| 30 | They will certainly need to be on a direct access device . |