Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] it to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much though we might sometimes like it to be otherwise , events unfold as they happen . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Generative linguists consider punctuation to be simply prosody and of relevance for the language — or they may simply believe it to be uninteresting . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You can either work it to be doubled over to the wrong side or make a matching strip of plain knitting as a facing . |