Example sentences of "[vb infin] to be [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may not appear to be strictly in keeping with the true spirit of love , but there is a great deal of useful ‘ good ’ to be learned from a military background . |
| 2 | From there the single line emerged onto the road , and along one side of it the train to West Cork would puff and blow at a brisk but not incautious pace , its smoke staining the leaves of the roadside trees , the guard ringing his bell almost without stop until they were approaching Carrigrohane and could reasonably expect to be out of range of busy pedestrians , excited children , and messenger boys on bicycles plaguing the engine-driver by trying to outspeed him . |
| 3 | It was nearly two and a half years since Hamish had walked out on Daisy and she could no longer claim to be madly in love with him , but she missed the presence of a man in her life , and her self-confidence was in tatters . |
| 4 | He 'll have to be away before sun up . ’ |
| 5 | It does not have to be just for Asians . ’ |
| 6 | Where a rota system remains the most appropriate form of out of hours cover a consultant may have to be directly on call to an experienced senior house officer . |
| 7 | ‘ Ted 's got his union meeting tonight , ’ she lies , ‘ I 'll have to be in with Frieda . |
| 8 | So it will have to be in for Thursday of that week , so you 've got another couple of days in that first week back . |
| 9 | But I 'm in a meeting until quite late — that 's why I suggested Pepe 's , because we do n't have to be there till midnight . |
| 10 | Without naming names , there are some bands I work with and if they are doing an interview , I will have to be there in case they do n't turn up and I end up making loads of phone calls . |
| 11 | You did not have to be there in person in order to kill by poison ; in fact , you probably tried not to be . |
| 12 | You do n't like me any more than I like you , but we do n't have to be constantly at war . ’ |
| 13 | Or or was it did you have to be out of school ? |
| 14 | ‘ He 'll want to be back at work as soon as possible . |
| 15 | This is my personal feeling , but I really do n't want to be out on tour with another singer trying to be Queen . |
| 16 | I really do n't want to be out on tour with another singer trying to be Queen . |
| 17 | my Lord then all , what , then , was not restricting competition because the people you have excluded are not people who would be in the market in any event , you are already saying we 've got the level of the , the , the hurdle , the wall or the barrier to such a low level that anybody who 's outside it , it is simply not a competitor , we 've got everybody in the market who could conceivably deserve to be there , but there 's no restriction , no you maybe excluding criminals or fraudsters for a , until they 've been re rehabilitated , er and you 're excluding people who simply do not deserve to be there as competitors at all , but no capability of right to compete and that 's why there is no restriction , everybody is in the charm circle who wants to be there and is capable of competing and that 's what the commission are trying to get the rules down to , making sure that no one is outside of the wall who should be inside of the wall and that 's why of course at the end of the day they can give their clearances , there 's no restriction . |
| 18 | In two hours or a little less , it would end , and Thorfinn would come in , a little drunk or more than a little drunk , as he could afford to be only in Caithness and Orkney , and so deliver himself , briefly , into her charge . |
| 19 | ‘ Where patient health can be at risk , you simply can not afford to be out of line with the programme of works . ’ |
| 20 | Today this detached attitude to learning is being questioned even in subjects like science where it would seem to be most at home . |
| 21 | This would seem to be completely at variance with human expectations ; the requirement for a ‘ god ’ survives all . |
| 22 | The resulting fear and frustration would seem to be more in line with the mockery of the devil . |
| 23 | The Shah shared much of Behbehanians suspicion of the British , But now in Aswan , he did not seem to be greatly in favour of Behbehanians suggestion that he throw himself in their mercy . |
| 24 | Though the constitutional case against the Irish government was dismissed in the Dublin High Court the general tenor and legalism of its defence did not seem to be entirely in accord with the spirit of Sunningdale . |
| 25 | Such refinements may seem to be out of reach , but any practical approaches to reducing environmental noise will be helpful to pupils who need to rely more on their hearing as a channel for information . |
| 26 | ( Jan 21-Feb 19 ) Jupiter and Neptune are challenged by the Sun in Libra and everything must seem to be out of focus at the moment , if not a bit unreal . |
| 27 | But I do n't always seem to be fully in control of myself when you 're around . ’ |
| 28 | I 'd love to be back in Bishop Auckland just now , if only for the gossip , but I ca n't do a day 's canvassing and sometimes feel a bit of a passenger . |
| 29 | you know , where I belong , I , I do n't quite honestly do n't really like Harlow New Town any more , I al I did up until about oh eight or nine years ago I thought it was a great place and all , all the cockneys that said , you know , oh I 'd love to be back in London , I thought they were barmy , you know to live in London the di the difference is , I mean my husband 's a cockney and he would n't , would never , well now he would never go back to London you know , it 's a dump , he , he likes Harlow , but er I think I do n't like it now because it 's expanded so much , you know when we , when we were first here , mind you when we first moved in it was ever so difficult for us kids because , there , there was the Old Town kids versus the New Town kids and they hated us , they really |
| 30 | He could not bear to be away from Maura today . |