Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [be] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Mrs Rogers came up to me and said how wonderful it must be to have a husband who takes an interest in his family ; her Dan does n't know he 's got a family and cares less . |
| 2 | It is often necessary to look at the water 's surface and try to visualise exactly what is happening beneath it — to imagine the fish in their own world and how best it might be to get a bait to them . |
| 3 | How much simpler it would be to parasitise a member of your own species . |
| 4 | In fact , the beauty all around was so breathtaking that , for the first time in his life , he actually caught himself thinking what a shame it would be to put a railway line here , to bring dirt and clamour to this Eden . |
| 5 | I say without qualification that home rule without proportional representation would not be home rule at all , and I would not support any measure to bring devolved government to Scotland which did not have PR as its centrepiece , for , however desirable it would be to create a Parliament in Edinburgh , to create one as unfair and undemocratic as that which we have here would be a betrayal of the people of Scotland . |
| 6 | I might vary this if one was arguing that it was easier for a chap in some circumstances to become a bomber pilot than it would be to become a fighter pilot , and I would concede that argument . |
| 7 | And imagine how difficult it would be to find a replacement with the same level of knowledge , experience , ability , authority or reputation . |
| 8 | What we need to do is steal his thunder in some way so that he realises how pointless it would be to write a story or even make any of those veiled suggestions that reporters of his ilk seem to be so good at . ’ |
| 9 | I have often thought how interesting and useful it would be to have a globe in the house . |
| 10 | They had often fantasised about how nice it would be to have a baby . |
| 11 | How hard do you think it would be to plug a cable between the Spectrum 's edge connector and an identical connector on the tablet ? |
| 12 | The more marked the change in behaviour or mental state , the more important it will be to find a remedy with that same mental picture . |
| 13 | Network SouthEast 's marketing director , David Walker , said : ‘ Anyone who has ever tried to use the 1,500-page British Rail timetable will know just how complicated it can be to plan a rail trip . ’ |
| 14 | This rather long discussion of the phonemic status of and shows how difficult it can be to reach a conclusion in phonemic analysis . |