Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] to be [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may need to be bulky and unsightly in large tanks . |
| 2 | ( 4 ) At the hearing the arbitrator may adopt any method of procedure which he may consider to be convenient and to afford a fair and equal opportunity to each party to present his case . |
| 3 | Your notes , however , should strive to be concise and need to be stripped of unnecessary words . |
| 4 | We should like to be constructive and we shall consider with our allies how best we can respond . |
| 5 | These bacteria are , of course , just the kind of parasites that , I argued , should cease to be parasitic and become mutualistic , precisely because they are transmitted in the eggs of the host , together with the host 's ‘ own ’ genes . |
| 6 | ‘ You must give me your solemn assurance on three counts : that you will not seek to discover the identity of my client , that you will not ask for any further assistance if the venture should prove to be unsuccessful and finally that you will not discuss this matter with any other person ; this stipulation to include even members of your own family and your circle of personal friends and acquaintances . ’ |
| 7 | There is every reason why it should continue to be pleasurable and satisfying for both husband and wife for the rest of their married life . |
| 8 | ‘ They 'll need to be ploughed and planted with a root crop for the first year . |
| 9 | His initial promise in sports gained him the tag of ‘ the runner ’ which he despised : ‘ So , I thought : I 'll try to be academic and good at sports as well . ’ |
| 10 | He might endure to be forsworn and dishonoured , but he would not endure to be defeated . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd like to be busy and I could n't just stop my life after tennis . |
| 12 | I 'd have to be honest and say , yes , I would n't argue , ’ says a married 35-yearold estate agent . |
| 13 | She thought of the local cemetery : if they all woke up , they 'd come round demanding their houses back ; they 'd have to be sheltered and fed and appeased with promises . |
| 14 | Attalli says the bank has enough money for the basic task of investment in private industry and in infrastructure projects ( ’ in fact , there is more money than projects , ’ he complains ) , as well as for training and education , but there are areas that could prove to be capital-hungry and ultimately create as many problems as they are intended to solve . |
| 15 | The quantities of waste water are often great , so that a treatment plant designed to cope adequately with them may have to be large and therefore expensive to install . |
| 16 | ( b ) They are essentially personal , and although historians may try to be objective and impartial they can not free themselves entirely from their own ideas about people and the world , their personal likes and dislikes , and the assumptions and values of the age in which they live . |
| 17 | They can be sluggish in movement , especially as they grow older , and may tend to be stubborn and inflexible as children . |
| 18 | You would need to be selective and have many to choose from if you wanted to make regular use of this kind of material . |
| 19 | Unless any cash payment is passing which is required by the husband for the purchase of another property , a contract would appear to be unnecessary and is certainly not required if the transaction is to be carried out following a court order ( whether by consent or otherwise ) as application can always be made to the court for the terms of the order to be carried out ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 20 | Ebenezer Scrooge would appear to be alive and well and has been reincarnated in the guise of the Court of Bank of Ireland . |
| 21 | The members of the School Boards were more secular in their thinking than the builders of the earlier parish schools , and although some designers used the Gothic style , it was argued that ‘ … a continuation of the semi-ecclesiastical style … would appear to be inappropriate and lacking in anything to mark the great change which is coming over the education of the country ’ . |
| 22 | However , if something enters the vehicle and crushes the plaintiff backwards against the seat , the failure to wear the seat belt would appear to be irrelevant and fail the test of causation . |
| 23 | The severance of communication passages would appear to be proportionate and reasonable as a response to the threat faced during these wars . |
| 24 | Quite apart from the fact that they would appear to be unorthodox and a distortion at its best of Christian theology , I believe it must be said of all these suggestions that , if what is intended is that they should give an equal place to women or to the ‘ feminine ’ within the Christian religion , they fail . |
| 25 | The plan 's logic suggests that curators in the four cities would compete to be independent and daring , that the four venues would give exhibitions more attention than individual biennial shows and that the public would benefit from a greater exposure to work judged to be the finest of contemporary art . |
| 26 | The search would have to be illegal and secret — the sort of operation she knew Urquhart 's organisation carried out regularly under the generous blanket of ‘ national security ’ . |
| 27 | Richardson said : ‘ When we won the title at Highbury , George Graham drummed it into us that we would have to be resilient and consistent . |
| 28 | Screening would have to be systematic and sensitive to what might be termed trouble indicators , of which the following provide some examples . |
| 29 | He could see no way out and in his anguish he began to think of doing himself in ; the method he would use would have to be quick and simple . |
| 30 | To this unheroic proposal Charles retorted passionately that ‘ rather than go back , I would wish to be dead and buried 20 feet underground ’ , but Murray 's reputation was by now such , and his arguments so well mustered , that he won over his colleagues . |