Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [vb infin] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 4 ) At the hearing the arbitrator may adopt any method of procedure which he may consider to be convenient and to afford a fair and equal opportunity to each party to present his case . |
| 2 | He may need to be able to use apparatus , and generally speaking science teachers are accustomed to explaining necessary points about its use and keeping a close watch on safety . |
| 3 | Maybe he 'll have to be content with merely doing all the work , but there 's compensations in being indispensable , too . ’ |
| 4 | Sue can fetch up with some young twat if she wants to , but I think he 'll have to be desperate as well . |
| 5 | The wing fracture is a bad one , and he 'll have to be certain it has healed properly before the bird is released . |
| 6 | He 'll have to be quick . |
| 7 | ‘ But he 'll need to be slippery all right , with coppers and criminals after him . ’ |
| 8 | He might endure to be forsworn and dishonoured , but he would not endure to be defeated . |
| 9 | I thought he might want to be alone . ’ |
| 10 | Some pundits were , rather foolishly , speculating that he might prove to be better than all of them . |
| 11 | He might prove to be useful but would have to be handled carefully . |
| 12 | the resources which he could expect to be available to him for the purpose of meeting the liability should it arise ; and |
| 13 | He could afford to be casual about the odd Force Nine . |
| 14 | At this moment she is all mine and without Faustina , Mark thought , then added quickly , ‘ I wonder what Faustina is doing now , ’ for he could afford to be generous among the azaleas , with Sophia 's hand in his . |
| 15 | He could afford to be crazy . |
| 16 | Of course , he could afford to be amused . |
| 17 | He 'd have to be careful . |
| 18 | He would pretend to be asleep . |
| 19 | Then she quashed the thought ; naturally he would pretend to be surprised , to have no idea of what she was getting at . |
| 20 | Local Liberal Party records bear him out in his assertion of this fixity of purpose and he would appear to be correct in his estimation that : |
| 21 | Of course he would like to be prime minister ‘ one day ’ . |
| 22 | Paddy began the week saying he would like to be Prime Minister . |
| 23 | If a Maestro was going to appear , however , he would need to be swift . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , but , madam , if the fellow is a tout — tout , is that the word ? — for one of the hotels here , is it not likely he would need to be ascending like us ? ’ |
| 25 | For what it is worth , every typist would have to have an error rate of about one in a trillion ; that is , he would have to be accurate enough to make only a single error in typing the Bible 250,000 times at a stretch . |
| 26 | He would have to be audacious . |
| 27 | Before rehearsals started , he got himself in trim by running every day , knowing that he would have to be ultra-fit for each night 's three-hour performance , appearing on stage for almost every minute of it . |
| 28 | But if he really loved her he would have to be prepared to let her go . |
| 29 | He would have to be careful . |
| 30 | In time he too would recruit and form an IRB circle there , but he would have to be careful ; Castlebar was a garrison town . |