Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [prep] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand we have noticed that the Greeks were much less curious than we would expect them to be about certain countries within their reach and indeed well inside their sphere of economic and cultural influence . |
| 2 | You would be well advised to consider the local Bar , particularly ( though not only ) if you do not feel yourself to be of outstanding ability . |
| 3 | You ca n't expect us to be like other people . |
| 4 | By contrast Mrs Cowan , s son-in-law said that it was no trouble to him to visit his mother-in-law every day and help take care of her , but that he would ideally prefer her to be in residential care because there she would have constant care and companionship , which was what she really needed . |
| 5 | ‘ I know when you said ‘ let's pretend to be engaged ’ you did n't mean it to be for real . ’ |
| 6 | This approach to law is an attempt to ethicise legal obligation , and posits as its ideal a situation in which all subjects can obey laws out of a sense of the ethical value of law , a sense which does not require them to be in moral agreement with any of the laws of the system in question . |