Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [modal v] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just would like to be a respected actress . |
| 2 | Yes , I still would like to be in the house , but |
| 3 | " I sure would hate to be in heaven ! " 9 . |
| 4 | ‘ Say a prayer for us ’ I asked , ‘ I really would like to be married , but I would also like HMS Western to put up a decent show . ’ |
| 5 | I 'm just like my mum , when it comes down to it , That 's why I quite admired Auntie Muriel , in a guarded sort of way I 'd think , I really should try to be like her , she was so content , nothing ever fazed her , I did n't want to be a farmer , understand , but I did n't want to be like mum either , tied to a feckless man , trying to keep him and me , having to hustle all the time to stop from sinking I fancied myself on a corporate asteroid , settling down with someone who would cherish me and buy me everything I wanted Carmen and her crew had the same ideas , even if they acted like they were going to be bad girls for ever , |
| 6 | Technical experts will always disagree , erm there was a time when I too would claim to be one of them . |
| 7 | You too can learn to be as selective as Ivan . |
| 8 | These are all parts of the switch-on mechanism because the switch-on mechanism depends upon a decent organization employing decent people and treating them as we individually would wish to be treated . |
| 9 | We also would like to be a general interest railway society . |
| 10 | We are tempted , perhaps , to associate them with what they are of , or what they represent , and hence to remove them from where they otherwise would seem to be , and hence to be lost for a location to which to assign them . |
| 11 | Given the doubts and uncertainties surrounding this area of law , it is not surprising that doctors may feel insecure in adopting a course of conduct which they otherwise may feel to be the most desirable . |
| 12 | Caught off guard , in a mellow mood , away-from the pressures that the stance has been developed to shield them from , they too will admit to being disappointed and confused , not as hard-bitten as they make out , and as having found only a very inadequate solution to what seems to be an insoluble problem : how to do a good enough job . |
| 13 | Because a Woonerf will not be created unless its residents want it , they too will expect to be involved in the planning , whilst there are additional complications of assuaging the fears of commercial interests such as shopkeepers . |
| 14 | It thus may need to be understood , incidentally , more strictly than its original proponent intended . |
| 15 | Glumness apart , he nonetheless would like to be thought of as a comic writer and indeed , though its themes are class , race and sex , what most impresses about The Buddha of Suburbia is that it is full of humour . |
| 16 | More fundamentally , even if we could invent a new investigative body , it too would have to be trained to produce reliable results , and for it too we would have to invent some sort of internal verification mechanism . |