Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] to be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police did n't want me to be sentenced , which I was stunned about . |
| 2 | Do you want me to be struck off ? |
| 3 | ‘ You did n't want me to be hurt ? |
| 4 | He said that , despite the fact that representatives of the Russian Parliament did not want them to be built and decisions had been taken for them not to be built , they were still being built because of the nature of the command economy that is being phased out . |
| 5 | Do we want them to be involved ? |
| 6 | Bud did n't want them to be done anyway . |
| 7 | It may however be relevant where the vendor is a partnership in which case each partner will be asked to provide the warranties and , in such circumstance , the purchaser will want them to be given on a joint and several basis . |
| 8 | But when she heard about Lore Selo and her two sisters , whose mother did not want them to be parted , Miss Harder promptly offered to take all three and the committee were shocked into acceptance . |
| 9 | Since I 've recently had my car radio stolen I 'm quite in favour of them not being sold at the car boot sales perhaps somebody would like to returns it to me but erm , the , you know , I 'm er you know they do need some restr , some legislation but I would n't want them to be legislated out of existence . |
| 10 | So I would prefer them to be assessed in that way than to post them off , and I 'm glad we 've got that choice … |
| 11 | Do you take more newspapers each day than you need and do you really need them to be delivered ? |
| 12 | It emerges from the guidance note that the DSS does not consider itself to be bound by settlements negotiated with Inland Revenue PAYE officers . |
| 13 | By the same token , he would not expect me to be found playing with his Gameboy . |
| 14 | Most shops are prepared for your to do this with expensive boots , but do n't expect them to be exchanged if they 've been marked in any way or worn outside ! |
| 15 | Although these are ‘ laboratory ’ specimens , they 've been kicking around for about six months and I 'd expect them to be detected quickly . |
| 16 | But if light is composed of particles , one might expect them to be affected by gravity in the same way that cannonballs , rockets , and planets are . |
| 17 | He could not expect them to be warmed by the idea of daffodils coming up outside . |
| 18 | Our own children are now so far removed from danger , at least of the primal kind , and these Masai are so close to it , that you would expect them to be cowed and fearful . |
| 19 | ‘ They have n't been involved for quite a while so you could n't really expect them to be picked , ’ said Thorstvedt , who is likely to be Norway 's last line of defence on October 14 . |
| 20 | If there was no correlation , well you 'd expect them to be mixed up a bit so that negatives might occur with negatives or they might occur with positives vice-versa Now , I 'm g try and give you a feel for how these numbers , how we work out the correlation coefficient in terms of Z scores . |
| 21 | Only by making our processing needs known can we expect them to be catered for by the computer and data creation industries . |
| 22 | Nor did he expect them to be republished . |
| 23 | One would expect ourselves to be bonded with Adam and Eve against our common foe but instead in their unfallen state , they seem to be most unlike the people of today . |
| 24 | But we could never bring ourselves to be bedded by them , though there was a little gypsy flower-girl with her gilded basket of faded carnations , stolen from a grave , who announced a sudden passion for Dana . |
| 25 | ‘ You realize , Stevens , I do n't expect you to be locked up here in this house all the time I 'm away . |
| 26 | If you were married to me I would n't expect you to be bound to the house all day , every day . |
| 27 | Therefore , on historical precedent , in contemplating the origin of a modern archbishop we would expect him to be educated at Oxford or Cambridge ; to have a good chance that he taught there ; and to be the son or grandson of a Christian minister . |
| 28 | That 's right , but we would expect it to be subsumed in the numbers of overall requirements for housing . |
| 29 | If this picture held true , then one would expect it to be confirmed in the real world of industry . |
| 30 | If acquired distinctiveness depends on associative mechanisms , we might expect it to be attenuated or abolished by a change of context that renders these associations less effective . |