Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] to [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a more detached view of what was the right thing or the wrong thing to do , a tradition of what national life was like , and what it ought to continue to be like . |
| 2 | If Offline is being conducted because a disk is nearly full , therefore , the work directory may need to be on a different disk , where more space is available . |
| 3 | Very high rates of extensional flow are therefore required in order to extend polymer chains , the criterion for the critical strain meaning that may need to be about . |
| 4 | when some security staff are located outside the hotel , they may need to be in constant communication with their colleagues inside the building , in order to verify that people arriving are bona fide guests , for example . |
| 5 | It 's only natural she should want to be with kids her own age . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm not demanding we spend the entire weekend locked in a clinch , ’ Vitor said impatiently when she started to protest , ‘ but we should appear to be on good terms . |
| 7 | You should plan to be at your FREELINK pick-up point not later than 15 minutes before scheduled departure . |
| 8 | That was the only objection made to site D thirty nine , er that it should be The objection was that it should shown to be in the greenbelt . |
| 9 | I was able to arrange that U Khin Zaw , working in the Burmese section of the BBC , should return to be in charge of broadcasting , and in the meantime to ensure that he got some experience of the drama , music and talks departments . |
| 10 | I 'm just like my mum , when it comes down to it , That 's why I quite admired Auntie Muriel , in a guarded sort of way I 'd think , I really should try to be like her , she was so content , nothing ever fazed her , I did n't want to be a farmer , understand , but I did n't want to be like mum either , tied to a feckless man , trying to keep him and me , having to hustle all the time to stop from sinking I fancied myself on a corporate asteroid , settling down with someone who would cherish me and buy me everything I wanted Carmen and her crew had the same ideas , even if they acted like they were going to be bad girls for ever , |
| 11 | This tends to be skewed towards the favoured end and you should aim to be at the front of the bulge . |
| 12 | … until subject matter theories with different epistemological characteristics have been formulated , the focus of our spatial planning must continue to be on supermarkets , roads and airports , and not on the needs and desires of those individual human beings that the facilities allegedly are constructed to serve . |
| 13 | LAST year 's accounts were concluded with my statement — ‘ We must continue to be of cautious mind as to the immediate future , confident nevertheless that our chosen strategy best equips the group to weather the ongoing economic turbulence . ’ |
| 14 | Persuading people to a particular point of view is the essential aim of every public relations campaign , no matter how it may appear to be about products , concepts , policies , personalities , issues , or information and data . |
| 15 | Despite the fact that a worker may appear to be at fault examination should begin with the supervisor immediately responsible for the area concerned . |
| 16 | To a casual observer water on a surface may appear to be in complete contact with it . |
| 17 | In some cases they may appear to be in conflict . |
| 18 | Advances in technology mean that desktop publishing machines are now available which can reproduce precise legitimate invoices and estimates which may appear to be in order . |
| 19 | It may be felt that the better course is not to deal with such matters in the partnership agreement itself but to leave the offer of consultancy to be produced as an inducement to or reward for retirement at such time as may appear to be in the firm 's best interests . |
| 20 | The analysis may appear to be unlike those which , to speak quickly and only of one central matter , describe something like a causal circumstance and an effect as two items which fall under a law , and then proceed to attempt to give an account of what a law is a true proposition of a certain character . |
| 21 | I had not done so before merely because I had not thought of them in this context ; I had supposed that you might prefer to be at some slight remove from the nefarious influences of the department … |
| 22 | There is nothing essentially new in thus narrowing the scope of will ; most of mankind throughout most of its history seems to have taken it for granted that they were moved by forces from beyond them and mysterious to them , which might lift them above or drag them below the capacities of which they might presume to be in command ( in Christian theology , the unpredictable visitations of divine grace assisting a will otherwise impotent to resist the Devil ) , and in the present century , ever since Freud demonstrated that the same conception of man could be translated from a religious into a psychological language , we have found ourselves thinking our way back to it . |
| 23 | I 'm sure they 'll want to be with us . |
| 24 | I should save the trip until the weekend , when we can all go , besides , she 'll be bored with all your old historical studies , she 'll want to be with other people of her own age , other Americans , perhaps — I mean , there are plenty of them about the place , goodness knows , and that shirt should really go in the wash straight away . ’ |
| 25 | You 'll need to be on the alert for any unusual eventuality , as your behaviour during this arduous time will govern future happenings . |
| 26 | I want to capture as many of the cell members as possible , so we 'll need to be on our toes . ’ |
| 27 | So for the first activity you 'll need to be in twos or threes . |
| 28 | He 'll need to be in an incubator for a while , just as a precautionary measure . |
| 29 | Nor can he always rely on the help of those who in any other industry or service you might expect to be on his side . |
| 30 | Clark 's argument might appear to be on firmer ground had he restricted the human comparison to total imbeciles ( anencephalics and the like ) where the complete lack of linguistic ability , and even of its behavioural prototypes in many cases , would prevent any appeal to exclusively human propensities . |