Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How I would love to be proved wrong by any one of them but parents and boys deserve my honest opinion , however much they may hate me for it . |
| 2 | She was simply reminding Jaq of how she might continue to be useful . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I do n't know how , I do n't know how they can stand to be apart . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They wept and clanked their chains and speculated on how it would feel to be eaten alive by the lions . |
| 9 | ‘ I know so much about it , from a working point of view , that is , that I ca n't really envisage how it would feel to be such a complete outsider , and yet privately so necessary to someone . |
| 10 | Persuading people to a particular point of view is the essential aim of every public relations campaign , no matter how it may appear to be about products , concepts , policies , personalities , issues , or information and data . |
| 11 | That 's how it will have to be . ’ |
| 12 | I still wondered though , how it must feel to be a German . |
| 13 | He went into her giant bathroom to take his mind off things and stood there awhile between her mirrors , thinking not particularly of how he looked himself but mostly of the inflections that she had caught from Fred , and also of how it must feel to be this negligently perfect child , who had obviously never in her life spent herself combating a flaw . |
| 14 | I asked him how he would prefer to be addressed and he said you can call him what you please , as long as it is polite . |
| 15 | Asked once how he would like to be remembered , he said , ‘ for producing Dylan Thomas 's Under Milk Wood and getting Basil D'Oliveira a cricketing job in England . ’ |
| 16 | There was something mysterious about him and she wanted to ask so many questions , but he had that locked-in look , so that even if she risked Salt 's caustic tongue and asked outright about how he 'd come to be a slave , what it was like in Jamaica , if Africa was full of cannibals and if he 'd eaten people , she 'd probably get no more than a few shrugs for answers . |
| 17 | Beeney was great and I do n't see how he can fail to be selected for the next few games short of leg amputation ( and even then … ) |
| 18 | That is when I would hope to be able to draw upon this philosophy and see the bad times through . |
| 19 | ‘ The injury has come at a time when I would love to be looking forward to making my home debut against Forest . |
| 20 | Areas where I would like to be more assertive are : |
| 21 | But this is where I must start to be careful in talking about ‘ our ’ love affair with the car . |
| 22 | Then , one week , the quietest woman in the group said : ‘ This is the only place where I can afford to be honest , ’ and somehow it seemed the healing process had begun . |
| 23 | This is a four-month period when you will need to be incisive and single-minded . |
| 24 | I believe , on the contrary , that in deciding where you would like to be , as opposed to where you are probably going to end up , you need a great deal of discussion and a great deal of development of new thinking and new processes . |
| 25 | ‘ Know where Ah 'd like to be goin' ? |
| 26 | Now , er , I do n't know er why you might want to be unlisted , ex-directory , not in the book . |
| 27 | Simply answer our question by ticking the appropriate box and then tell us in no more than 12 words why you would like to be a Clairol winner . |
| 28 | An assertiveness training programme involves a number of stages : first , understanding the underlying principles of the approach ; second , recognizing different styles of communicating ( passive , aggressive , assertive ) , third , identifying specific situations where we would like to be more assertive , whether at work , in public , among friends , or at home ; fourth , to prepare , rehearse , or role play a different , more assertive response ; and fifth , to transfer that behaviour back into the real world . |
| 29 | ‘ That is where we would like to be . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It 's not where we would like to be . |