Example sentences of "[vb infin] to [be] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would the House seek to be the authority for such automatic timetabling ? |
| 2 | The choice of buffer distance would need to be the subject of some experiment . |
| 3 | But there would of course be a greater or lesser requirement for additional roadworks as a result of that proposal , which would need to be the subject of negotiation . |
| 4 | I realise now that she did n't have the qualities of insight and gentleness and the warmth she would need to be the companion of a country doctor . ’ |
| 5 | But because these books are written with a greater apparent degree of realism , the murder does not need to be the attention-grabbing , bizarre affair of the blueprint book . |
| 6 | However where the restraint of trade doctrine applies , for example in contracts of employment , a confidentiality obligation will only be enforced if the information in question can fairly be regarded as a separate part of the employee 's stock of knowledge which a man of ordinary honesty and intelligence would recognise to be the property of his employer and not his own to do what he likes with . |
| 7 | A general principle in the employment field was laid down in Printers and Finishers Ltd v Holloway [ 1964 ] 3 All ER 731 where Cross J said that employees are prohibited from using information which " can fairly be regarded as a separate part of the employee 's stock of knowledge which a man of ordinary honesty and intelligence would recognise to be the property of his old employer and not his own to do as he likes with " . |
| 8 | That is this , should I rely on the agape love of my partner or should I strive to be the type of person that my partner could easily love even if no agape love were available ? |
| 9 | He did not appear to be the type which could be persuaded to turn traitor . |
| 10 | In the wild this fish is reported as attaining a length of up to 18″ with a weight of 1½lb although this would appear to be the exception as species of about 6″ are more commonly the rule . |
| 11 | The arbiter over these matters would appear to be the VPK , which is empowered to commandeer resources where required , and whose work programmes carry the force of law . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As we have already observed ( see ( 35 ) ) , the verb see , in its ordinary uses , can not be expected to occur with an adverbal adjective , but this does appear to be the interpretation needed for ( 41 ) which may be considered substandard but is apparently possible in current British English : ( 41 ) even if the scheme does fail , I 'll see you comfortable Much more often , the idiomaticity works the other way , so that a set of lexical items that could fit the structure of ( 21 ) , with appropriate values , seem to give unacceptable sentences , as in ( 42 ) : ( 42 ) Eva played her opponent exhausted Wendy wiped the floor moist |
| 14 | However , this does appear to be the case . |
| 15 | Yet this does not appear to be the case . |
| 16 | This did not appear to be the case . |
| 17 | With the orang this does not appear to be the case ; rather the reverse in fact . |
| 18 | This did not appear to be the case . |
| 19 | However , as we shall see , the issue of black ‘ underachievement ’ in schools is rather more complex than might first appear to be the case . |
| 20 | Twenty-five was about the average age of marriage for Scottish women , — and it does appear to be the case that with the notable exception of Dundee ( where a large number of women continued working ) it was usual throughout the period up to 1914 to give up regular employment on marriage and to return to it only if widowed or in great hardship . |
| 21 | This does not appear to be the case . |
| 22 | If he had friends or relatives who were hiding or supporting him it would be a different matter , but this does not appear to be the case . |
| 23 | If this were so one would expect measures of inter-hemispheric transmission time to remain roughly constant for the same stimuli and subjects , yet this does not appear to be the case ( Bashore , 1981 ) . |
| 24 | Such a theory predicts that an increase in advantage for a particular visual hemifield should be accompanied by an equivalent decrease in performance for the other hemifield , yet this does not appear to be the case ( Hellige and Cox , 1976 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ Forgive me , dear lady , but that did not appear to be the case last night . ’ |
| 26 | That does not appear to be the case , because there are more charters in store . |
| 27 | In fact this does not appear to be the case , substantial recognition differences were observed between exemplars of individual junctions . |
| 28 | This does not appear to be the case , however . |
| 29 | It would appear to be the case that , for this kind of effect to take place , the word 's function must be made available to the syntactic and semantic processes very early on in the access process . |
| 30 | Although they are extremely unlikely to suffer any lasting effects of the infection , it does appear to be the case that young , highly-trained athletes , such as footballers , are often susceptible to viral diseases . |