Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] to be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sure my husband would not mind if your daughter came but it may need to be the ( comfortable ) sofa for a night ! |
| 2 | Whether you be a district sales executive , a vice-president finance or an operations manager , you must strive to be the best in your chosen area . |
| 3 | To non-riders dressage must appear to be the art of making the noble horse look like a wally with an even bigger wally on top in fancy dress . |
| 4 | No one had ever raised a hand to her in anger , and woe betide him if he should decide to be the first man to try . |
| 5 | IT SEEMS remarkable that Gershwin 's Porgy and Bess should have to be the object of rediscovery . |
| 6 | To assert those alternatives and to insist upon them we mean that a designer should cease to be the industrial Eichmann of a large corporation . |
| 7 | Still , I do not wish in what follows to forego the support of what must seem to be the good sense of our natural empiricism , which is independent of philosophy . |
| 8 | The hour of death and mode of dying , however brief and fragmentary in relation to eternity , thus acquired a fateful significance — fateful indeed , if the death of an unrepentant sinner should prove to be the broad gateway to everlasting torment . |
| 9 | As to why a peripheral , albeit a very smart one , should prove to be the saviour of a company we need to look at some history . |
| 10 | Now I M P A C say that they believe there should be a dedicated pensions act to replace trust law and the National Federation Post Office and B T pensioners say trust law should continue to be the basis of pension funds . |
| 11 | We do not see why that should continue to be the case , especially if the industry is privatised . ’ |
| 12 | However , at the centre of the understanding must lie an awareness that schools and colleges have always been in the business of change , created by responding to the needs of individual children and students and that the child at school or the student at college must continue to be the central focus of all educational activity . |
| 13 | Given the doubts and uncertainties surrounding this area of law , it is not surprising that doctors may feel insecure in adopting a course of conduct which they otherwise may feel to be the most desirable . |
| 14 | However important this is , it ought to be born in mind that what may appear to be the cheapest at the time may not necessarily be the most effective in solving a particular odour problem and consequently not the cheapest in the long term . |
| 15 | At first glance two tanks standing side by side in a room may appear to be the same . |
| 16 | The transfer ratios differ in different applications of what might appear to be the same thing : V8 Ninety — 1.222:1 ; V8 One Ten — 1.410:1 and V8 Range Rover — 1.192:1 . |
| 17 | While this approach might appear to be the treatment of choice for many adolescent self-poisoners , in practice , family therapy is often difficult to establish because of the reluctance of some family members to become involved . |
| 18 | This might appear to be the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of the colony , but all the bees in the colony are genetically related . |
| 19 | On the face of it , the greatest guarantor of the reliability of the WTO armed forces might appear to be the 550 000–600 000 Soviet forces stationed on their national territories , the overwhelming majority of which ( 20 divisions ) are deployed in the GDR ( Group Soviet Forces Germany , HQ Zossen-Wunsdorf ) . |
| 20 | Very often such a team will achieve the unachievable and will overcome even the problem of what , in hindsight , might appear to be the wrong strategic direction . |
| 21 | This aspect of the story has shocking implications as a representative of what might appear to be the random and unjust way by which salvation may be achieved — although St Peter always wins . |
| 22 | FIFTY QUID AND I 'LL CLAIM TO BE THE EX MISTRESS OF THE M.P . |
| 23 | Tell ‘ im I 'll volunteer to be the one who pulls the trigger . |
| 24 | Aye , lass ; it 'll have to be the factory , we 'd never get him upstairs . |
| 25 | No , unless I can come up wi' something soon , it 'll have to be the train . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It 'll have to be the kitchen because of the baby . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Then it 'll have to be the room above the shop . |
| 28 | ‘ I was beginning to think I might have to be the one to raise the question , ’ she returned demurely . |
| 29 | This last might seem to be the most likely possibility but , if so , we are presented with yet another mystery : how can a theory which works so well for black holes not work equally well for their direct counterparts , white holes ? |
| 30 | Those defendants awaiting trial in custody might seem to be the most seriously disadvantaged by delay and they do tend to take priority . |