Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | My reply was that I doubted if any such plan had a remote chance of success , and that I would want to be assured of the truthfulness and authenticity of the document he was planning to send me . |
| 2 | I was certainly to do with feeling that I would have to be a little bit slimmer , that I would have to be acceptable to other people , that I would have to change my shape and at the same time , I could not resist consuming large amounts of food . |
| 3 | I was certainly to do with feeling that I would have to be a little bit slimmer , that I would have to be acceptable to other people , that I would have to change my shape and at the same time , I could not resist consuming large amounts of food . |
| 4 | When I met my husband , I knew he was the one for me , and I knew that I would have to be honest if our marriage was n't to be based on a lie . |
| 5 | ‘ I have always thought that I would like to be a fashion designer . |
| 6 | So much to that I made it clear to my club that I would like to be selected as a tighthead ’ . |
| 7 | This is a genuine project and one that I would like to be completed before the end of the summer . |
| 8 | I hope that I will prove to be wrong about the Bill . |
| 9 | I worked very hard and soon Professor Waldman and I realized that I could learn to be a very good scientist . |
| 10 | I have decided that I should try to be objective instead , and reflect for a moment . |
| 11 | I do n't know that I 'd want to be left alone with her for any length of time . " |
| 12 | I always had this thing in the back of my mind that I 'd like to be Head Gardener at Killerton one day , because of the type of garden it is , because of its size and because of the plant content . |
| 13 | It 's just that I 'd like to be doing more outside work . |
| 14 | Although Bernice could understand her wish for peace and quiet , Ell must be joking saying that she would prefer to be back home . |
| 15 | Annely Juda said at the time that she would have to be carried out of the building rather than leave . |
| 16 | I asked Joyce what aspect of her phobia she felt still remained and she said that she would like to be able to go into an open space such as a park , where there were likely to be many more birds around . |
| 17 | " I just think that she might prove to be somewhat difficult to dispose of … oh , do n't look so surprised . |
| 18 | I undressed her in her South Kensington hotel room and fucked her , only retreating to the safety of the street outside when she asked me to stay the night so that she could pretend to be my mother . |
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| 21 | The ACP will then consider the report at its next meeting , and it may be that you would like to be present at that meeting . |
| 22 | I had not done so before merely because I had not thought of them in this context ; I had supposed that you might prefer to be at some slight remove from the nefarious influences of the department … |
| 23 | Belinda if we can start with you more or less erm I heard the other day that you 're half thinking that you might like to be a nurse ? |
| 24 | ‘ The National Front Disco ’ is such a self-evidently silly title and the sentiments and tone so obviously satirical that you 'd have to be pretty blinkered to be offended by it . |
| 25 | List at least five things that you could do to be a bargain for your partner . |
| 26 | They need clothes for the prisoners as well as paper , pens , paint , in fact anything that we might find to be surplus in this country they could use , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Now in Oxford erm we actually do n't have any land like that , and the problem was that , even if we had self-build houses on the land which is available at the moment , on which we want to build council houses but we have n't got the money to build council houses , if we were to allow self- build to go ahead on those sites because of the value of the land then the sorts of people who would actually be able to afford them would not be people on low incomes , or even sort of low to medium incomes , they would actually be people who were fairly well off and therefore not the people that we would want to be directing our resources at . |
| 28 | Well I did say to , to Nicholas that we would start to be looking at whether they 're successful or not . |
| 29 | We have expressed our wish to the council that we would like to be consulted over the detailed implementation of the conditions and sincerely hope that we will be allowed to play a constructive part in this process . |
| 30 | So and , and I think maybe it 's a good idea that we write and say that we would like to be given an opportunity to speak to them . |