Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To see them is to believe in love , real old-fashioned romantic love . |
| 2 | ‘ We do n't really want to see them being killed do we ? ’ |
| 3 | But it was — and still is — an affront to those who respected the great classic guitars , having to see them being used as dispensable stage props ! |
| 4 | to look at er , a P R job about changing the way those resources are used so that they 're used in the way that 's been talked away , er , talked about tonight which is way that clearly many wo , many women want to see them being used . |
| 5 | The only reliable way to see them was to pass in front of the building and turn left into the road to the cemetery : from that side some of them could be seen craning out of the windows and waving . |
| 6 | Nor does the Chancellor demand free elections for East Germans immediately , his aides say , but would first like to see them be given greater personal freedom and basic human rights . |
| 7 | Even worse , you would tell me about new poems you had started to write , and it was like a dagger in my heart when you described working on them without my help — though the real reason you had come back to see me was to labour over them with me , adding my suggestions and excisions in the margins in your minuscule script . |
| 8 | I quickly discovered that in her view it did n't have one , and that the only reason she had agreed to see me was to get this across once and for all . |
| 9 | The extra time and support that are necessary ( a ) to perform jobs that are pressing at the limits of personal and material resources , and ( b ) to invest in learning how to do them better , or to assemble additional resources , so that the time taken to perform them is reduced , are not available . |
| 10 | The only way to compare them is to calculate what they would be paying over the whole 25 years if neither of them moved from their present home . |
| 11 | The sick who had no one to tend them were spread through the inner , inhabited core of the city , in the monasteries , in the hospice of the Knights of St John with their double chapels . |
| 12 | ‘ What sometimes appear to be new strategies decentralisation , management by objectives , consultative supervision , ‘ democratic ’ leadership are usually but old wine in new bottles , because the procedures derived to implement them are derived from the same inadequate assumptions about human nature … |
| 13 | Magellan captured a number of these immense people — one pair by the crud trick of showing them leg-irons and insisting that the proper way to carry them was to allow them to be locked around their ankles . |
| 14 | The broad categories of tasks which are required to support them are understood . |
| 15 | On the island of Rhum for example , there was talk of introducing a pack of timber wolves when sufficient tree cover to support them was achieved at the end of an extensive planting programme by the Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 16 | ‘ Why should I force myself to pretend I 'm enjoying this ? ’ |
| 17 | and they come in and have a coffee , that 's it , good boy , and erm , er , so , I , I said well I 'm gon na have to go I 'm going over to me daughter 's she 's just had a baby so |
| 18 | One element of the business community alleges that they need the right to pretend someone 's making an offer when no one actually is ’ . |
| 19 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 20 | ‘ I want really to die , and I want John Major to see I 'm dying because of his and Norman Lamont 's fault , ’ she told reporters . |
| 21 | Where an employer seeks to impose new terms , he necessarily faces the problem of the previously bargained contract of employment and must initially show a sound good business reason to justify the changes when dismissals resulting from refusals to accept them are assessed for their fairness . |
| 22 | Indeed , the way in which they could disappear beyond the ability of governments and even their owners to find them is eliciting a long , hard look at Europe 's toxic waste rules . |
| 23 | There are any number of things that could go wrong and the only way to discover them is to discuss with the parents exactly what they did . |
| 24 | In years to come I was to appreciate his inflexible will , his intense patience , his courage , his horror of cruelty , his dedication to his country and his deep religious faith . |
| 25 | I wonder whether you would like to come I was wondering whether you would like to come and see some friends with me next weekend . |
| 26 | The best way to find someone is to look in your local directories , such as the Yellow pages but do remember to check their qualifications . |
| 27 | ‘ I wanted you to know someone was following you , so that I could be sure you 'd lead me a dance . |
| 28 | I do not want my new friends to know I am connected to a boring man like you . |
| 29 | It 's not simply a matter of defying conventions although I admit I have been strictly brought up and I think it would break my parents ’ hearts if ever they came to know I was living with a man who was not my husband . |
| 30 | You were n't supposed to know I was seeing him . |