Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [prep] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having disciplined , explored and contained my own metaphysical anguish , having put down my own last worthy appetites , having separated myself by conscious decision from the filth and decadence of modern society , it is inevitable that my own hard-won sense of propriety or dignity should tempt me into being the scourge of other , more self-indulgent beings , fictional or not . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , yeah , but they do n't exactly consider you to be the greatest thing since sliced bread , now do they ? ’ she opined . |
| 3 | Is the person likely to feel coerced , even although you may consider it to be the best course of action for the individual ? |
| 4 | DAMON HILL joined the elite band of Formula One drivers yesterday and then warned : ‘ Do n't expect me to be the new Nigel Mansell . ’ |
| 5 | The finder of goods is entitled — except only against one who can show himself to be the owner — to legal protection against all the world . |
| 6 | Remember that you 're going abroad because it 's different so please do n't expect it to be the same as home ! |
| 7 | Who would expect it to be the home of the biggest water-wheel in Europe ? |
| 8 | As the carpet has been in satisfactory use for some years , we should not expect it to be the actual cause of trouble . |
| 9 | but they 're bonded to different groupings so , for example , if one had something like this er , let's call that see three , page seven if I had something like that that central carbon there and when they draw these things at an exam paper , do n't expect it to be the central one . |
| 10 | The chances are that if you are told a nasty tale about the sexual misdemeanours of a headmaster , a vicar , a scout leader , a member of Parliament , a public performer or a novelist then you will assume it to be the truth . |
| 11 | But I have known many people — salespeople , surgeons , journalists , scholars , even musicians — who did have them without being the least bit ‘ entrepreneurial . ’ |
| 12 | What I tried to teach people was that if we did n't increase the added value , but took more of it and put it in our pockets , the only place we could take it from was the glass marked reinvestment and that makes people unemployed quicker than anything — and permanently . |
| 13 | It drives us directly from foundationalism ( for it was in foundationalist terms that the argument was formulated ) to the most interesting form of solipsism , the view that you must take yourself to be the only subject of experience — in fact the subject of experience — since you can have no conception of another such . |
| 14 | Salah did not need to persuade himself ; and his Egyptian teacher was also anxious that his daughter should continue — — but he did not want her to be the only one . |
| 15 | It was being said quite openly on the factory floor that the only place Clasper would lead them to was the end of the dole queue . |
| 16 | We have a new Committee organising events after the AGM , but one future event I can tell you about is the trip to the Great British Beer Festival . |
| 17 | But politicizing the curriculum is not the same ( and the authors probably would not suppose it to be the same ) as broadening it . |
| 18 | ‘ The closest thing that I can compare it to is the film . |
| 19 | And I do n't want it to be the same . ’ |
| 20 | Not just because it would ruin the trust that my relationship is built on and that I so much believe in , but because being unfaithful would require me to be the kind of woman I choose not to be . |
| 21 | If they are to get full influence for the purpose of bringing constituencies up to the mark , they can only get it by being the channels for help . |