Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb mod] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they 'd want to be as much away from the air conditioning as possible , would n't they ? ’ |
| 2 | So they 'd seem to be ideal for anyone wishing to avoid police cameras . |
| 3 | Moreover they will tend to be Catholics from just the sort of background the universities here have for years wished to see represented more adequately among students . |
| 4 | They had no idea that the woman they escorted was far more lethal than ever they could hope to be . |
| 5 | Dunkirk , Boulogne and Calais , through which British munitions and troops could pass in growing numbers , might have been taken at little cost during the Germans ' initial advance , now they would have to be fought for . |
| 6 | Often they will want to be able to telephone solicitors when somebody in the CAB has a problem they need help with . |
| 7 | And at the end of the day then , you have to weigh up whether or not you decide that even though , if you like in the strictest financial terms , it is not profitable to open the cinema and to employ staff doing that although presumably they 'd have to be employed doing something else unless you changed their rota patterns nonetheless because of your the demands of funding bodies , your own cultural aims and equal opportunities policies , you 've decided that you will do so even though it 's going to be marginally a loss in financial terms . |
| 8 | Well they 'll have to be equal prizes would n't they ? |
| 9 | In the mild south , gardeners can get away with plunging them in their containers buried in peat in the garden , but up here they 'll need to be kept safe from hard frost in a cold frame . |
| 10 | The patient wants to keep still but the pains can be so severe that they must move so sometimes they can appear to be restless . |
| 11 | But if I am going to bring anybody in , then they will have to be somebody I can trust and live in this area . ’ |
| 12 | Claiming responsibility for the attacks , the UFF labelled Castle Street as ‘ a Republican taxi rank ’ , and warned the black taxis there they would continue to be legitimate targets . |
| 13 | If partnerships find the case proven they should consider how the tensions towards fragmentation might be reduced and how they might come to be a better understanding of the responsibilities and common commitments which are essential in any decentralised organisation . |
| 14 | As a compensation , and as a substitute for the lost narcissism of childhood , ‘ normal ’ people develop an ego ideal , a conception , more emotional than intellectual , of how they would like to be . |
| 15 | Leading journalists covering the particular sport were invited to attend the lunch and to give their views on how the sponsorship could best benefit the sport and on how they would like to be kept in the picture . |
| 16 | I do n't know how , I do n't know how they can stand to be apart . |
| 17 | Neil Tennant may wonder how they can expect to be taken seriously but , to millions of record buyers the world over , they are the ultimate realisation of the rock dream ; tribal passion , myth , commitment and the belief that guitars really can bring down governments . |
| 18 | Apparent oppositions , they felt , should not only be tolerated but gloried in : ultimately they would prove to be resolvable in a wider harmony . |
| 19 | But this Sunday they 've all got something in common — it 's Father 's Day , the one day of the year when they can expect to be thoroughly pampered and spoiled by the rest of the family for a change . |
| 20 | The females had dropped their young and reared them to the point where they could survive to be next year 's prey . |
| 21 | One can understand why people at risk should wish to have these things , but not why they should expect to be given them free . |
| 22 | Aunt M. nags and nags , and Uncle John said outright that he did n't see why they should have to be responsible for me , when Mother was only half-sister to Aunt Millicent . |