Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [modal v] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you think I would choose to be so ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ If there is no room here , there is plenty up on the hill , and where do you think I would like to be ? ’ |
| 3 | In fact — ’ his upper lip curled fastidiously as he paused thoughtfully ‘ — in fact , if we did n't have our professional connection to serve as camouflage , I do n't think I 'd care to be seen with you . |
| 4 | I expect she 'll try to be . ’ |
| 5 | Any man who 'd try and attack you would have to be mad ! |
| 6 | But the injury ca n't be mended and vets say she 'll have to be put down . |
| 7 | The customers say you 'd have to be a detective to make sense of it . |
| 8 | And you never say you 'd like to be taken out for a change , or ring him up when you want a bit of company ? ’ |
| 9 | If the Puritans refused to compromise they would have to be ruthlessly suppressed . |
| 10 | The thought of entering the disaster area of an elderly widow 's grief and shouldering some of the responsibility for helping her to bear it , and to rebuild what is left of her life , is enough to create feelings of anxiety in anyone ; and admittedly this can be a very difficult assignment , for not only will you be well aware that you are unable to give her the one thing she really wants — the return of her husband — but you will feel , as we all do when faced with the bereaved , that their personality seems suddenly to have been crushed like a flower under the heel of a vandal , showing it to be so fragile and vulnerable that almost any attempt to revive it would seem to be doomed to failure . |
| 11 | so erm investing into industry which I do n't know much about , and I , I am suspicious that invest into industry anyway erm so it 's gon na have , to work it 'll have to be quite a long term policy , well I imagine it would n't be a short-term policy . |
| 12 | I was careful to explain my own attitude to commissioned work — that in order for me to work it would have to be within the broadest of limitations . |
| 13 | You will need to ensure that you get job satisfaction , and problems can arise which will need to be faced . |
| 14 | Except Tony says I can return to being Security manager . |
| 15 | Kate says she would like to be able to take more of a hands-on approach to her job . |
| 16 | The Oscar-winning actress told the YP : ‘ To follow Denis Healey 's act you would need to be a genius . ’ |
| 17 | Then , quite out of the blue at the end of 1983 , they had a letter from the Palace saying that the Princess had decided she would like to be their patron . |
| 18 | The more high-powered the job the more detailed these questions will be and the better prepared you will need to be to answer them . |
| 19 | The use of the voice in conjunction with the body is an important feature of training , too , for when acting you will need to be physically free enough to do several things at once . |
| 20 | Surprisingly for such a seemingly small , fragile machine , Vne is 110 kts , but I 'll wager you would need to be pointing almost vertically downhill to achieve such a mind-numbing speed in the Aeronca . |
| 21 | There was no need to labour that , de Burgh knew well enough how delicately the business of displacing him would have to be undertaken . |
| 22 | He described the changes underway in the country as exciting and says he would like to be in the country at such a momentous time . |
| 23 | He says he will learn to be independent , how to drive a car and to go to work , everything a paralysed patient can do these days . |
| 24 | Hence , to issue new shares at a substantial discount to the market price and then underwrite it would appear to be a case of double indemnity in which the primary insurer is assured of a very small probability of having to make a compensation payment . |
| 25 | He was a bully , he flew into rages , but to do what Albert believed he had done he would have to be wicked , and Carrie did n't think he was that . |
| 26 | If such a duty was to be owed it would have to be based on an express or implied term in the contract of employment . |
| 27 | ‘ I hope he will grow to be finer than his father , may God bless him . ’ |
| 28 | But having collected the first item on Alex Ferguson 's spring shopping list they hope it will prove to be the lever to rid themselves of a 25-year burden . |
| 29 | Sue said : ‘ We 're confident of the success of Mossburn and hope it will prove to be a real crowd-puller . ’ |
| 30 | As the search began in January 1989 for 12 people who had never watched his testimony to sit as a jury at North 's trial , one cartoonist imagined it would have to be composed of mujahedin from Afghanistan ; a satirist announced that the first two jurors selected were Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling , the pandas from Washington Zoo . |