Example sentences of "this [vb mod] be [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reader 's reaction to this may be to ask , " Yes , but are they really biological objects ? " |
| 2 | This may be to talk about your conversion : ‘ I used to feel similarly , but had an experience which changed my life … . ’ |
| 3 | The point of this may be to draw the hearer 's attention to the way they kept on running , perhaps against considerable odds . |
| 4 | In other words if there be a moral burden to protest it should be well aimed , and be for proper reasons , difficult though this may be to define . |
| 5 | This may be to facilitate assembly . |
| 6 | This may be to suit you or your mood or the time of day . |
| 7 | This may be to acquaynt you that their is a pore yong women in oure Towne of Asston-underlyne infected with a filthy deceassed called the French poxe and shee saith shee was defiled by one Henry Heyworth a maryed man , but soe it is the report of that dessease occasioneth neighbours to deny hir harbour and shee is enforced to lye in the streetes and in great danger to bee starved , I do humbly intreate your worshipps to take it into your consideration and to grant your Order that the pore woman may be provyded for to prevent starveing , either upon the parrish charges , or upon the Costs of the said Heyworth whom she saith hath spoiled hir , whether yiur worshipps shall think fitt |
| 8 | Interestingly , the draped xoanon representing the deity on the Agia Triadha sarcophagus is apparently wearing a full-length sheepskin robe ; this may be to emphasize his antiquity or his rustic origins ( Figure 47 ) . |
| 9 | A consequence of this may be to increase the dependence of the old people on others because they will need their help to get to the toilet and use it . |
| 10 | One way of putting this may be to contrast a view of intervention that sees it as being essentially brief , focused , and assessment-based , and one that conceives intervention , whether explicitly or implicitly , as being a longer-term and more broadly supportive enterprise , in which social care planning and ‘ networking ’ have a high profile . |
| 11 | If you are too domineering in your handshake ( and this may be to overcompensate for nerves ) you will antagonize the interviewer who will subconsciously feel threatened on his/her own territory . |
| 12 | This may be to have the customer test the product over a four-week period , or for him to order a quantity for immediate use . |
| 13 | Our first response to this must be to work with our partners in the public and private sectors to generate new economic activity and employment opportunities , and to enhance the access to these jobs by all Glasgow 's residents . |
| 14 | This might be to chase it , grab it , attack it , eat it , live in it , avoid it , leave scent markings on it , make love to it or whatever . |
| 15 | The most promising way of achieving this might be to take more seriously Dworkin 's own master principle of equal concern and respect , for , as has been seen , this does appear capable of generating a right of equality which transcends that of equality of opportunity , and a right of effective participation in the decision-making process which would go far beyond the right to vote in a general election once every five years . |
| 16 | One might say that Barthes was examining the social representation of Einstein , yet to say this might be to use ‘ social representation ’ in a loose sense . |
| 17 | This might be to speed the job up to earn a larger bonus or to create some leisure time during the working shift , or to slow the job down so that an impression of busy-ness is created and he is not given further work . |
| 18 | Another way of looking at this might be to say in a sense there are there are two bits , one is identifying where we are now and identifying in relation to both |
| 19 | One way of trying to test this might be to show the skyline to very young babies and see how they responded . |
| 20 | The sun flames orange and pink behind the trees above the house , the breeze is cool rather than cold , scented with flowers and the sea , and you think what a pleasant if rather bland place this would be to settle down . |
| 21 | To say this would be to deny the universality of what Professor A. J. Ayer says it is natural for us to assume , namely that we use the same word in different situations because we have noticed a distinctive common feature . |
| 22 | Perhaps er er another way of looking at this would be to see it in terms of rightist deviations and leftist deviations and one might see erm the er the moderate policies er of thirty seven to forty nine i in a sense as being erm a rightist deviation , one might see forty six forty seven as being leftist deviations and the left is seeking to overcome rightist deviations , the right seeking to overcome leftist deviations and you 've got some kind of oscillation between the two . |
| 23 | This would be to hold that a justified belief is one which tracks the truth . |
| 24 | The extreme example of this would be to paralyse the animal , which would increase the pain and terror of a man even though he was unable to display any sign of pain . |
| 25 | One way to do this would be to treat a space as a legal character and build the whole of the set of compounds into the word recognition tree with an index at the end . |
| 26 | Yet this would be to miss the essence of the point Marx seeks to make : for bad treatment by employers of employees is open to correction by moral conviction whether that of the employers themselves acting in pursuance of enlightened self-interest , or that of legislatures acting to prevent abuses ; and the simple understanding would , by introducing the possibility of an extrinsic and corrective moral factor , threaten the inevitability of the class war . |
| 27 | One obvious way to do this would be to charge high prices — so that there is a large difference between the cost price and the selling price . |
| 28 | This would be to substitute a judicial view as to , for example , the most appropriate way in which to allocate aid , or to disburse licences , for that of the public body . |
| 29 | The knock-on effect of this would be to delay the start of Doctor Who on Television , something considered very unwise in the light of problems encountered on ‘ The Daleks ’ . |
| 30 | a final step in a drill like this would be to put as many of the words as possible in a usable frame , such as " I see a … " or " Give me a … " |