Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] to be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't forget , you may need them to be there for you , another time , another place ! |
| 2 | He was too concerned that people should like him to be really frightening . |
| 3 | We should like it to be officially proclaimed by each university that in all its examinations the quality of the English written or spoken by candidates , especially its lucidity and its fitness to the subject , will carry great weight with examiners . |
| 4 | The longer scheme is widely thought to be better and I should like it to be more at the centre of the proposals , as I want the environment as a whole to be at the centre . |
| 5 | Your father will be home for dinner tonight , and I 'm sure he 'll expect you to be here . ’ |
| 6 | And I 'd expect them to be here . |
| 7 | In the circumstances it 's in very good condition ; we 'd expect it to be far worse than this but the more we uncover the better it gets . |
| 8 | And as an Eclipse buyer , we 'd expect you to be equally discriminating about the look of your food . |
| 9 | It brought me up against the fact that I 'd like him to be better off so I could have more options . |
| 10 | And I 'd like you to be there , too — because of your experience , you know . " |
| 11 | Besides , I 'd like you to be there — especially as you 'll have done all the work . ’ |
| 12 | I 'd like you to be quite sure that I 'm who I say I am . |
| 13 | Unless it 's a deliberate , attention-gaining ploy , I 'd advise you to be more careful in future . ’ |
| 14 | Jonathan Fry , director of Yorkshire and Humberside Low Pay Unit : ‘ We welcome the new tax rate of 20p in the £ for the first £2,000 of taxable income although we would prefer it to be even lower . |
| 15 | I am really glad of it ; I do n't think I would want them to be there , just in case I lost . |
| 16 | I would go further Chairman , in terms of the version we reach now , I would be very surprised if they do reach those figures , and , er , why I would expect them to be substantially less , because the policy which is being proposed at this stage is one of using joint finance monies as a one hundred percent grant , one-off grants for one or two years in support of schemes , rather than in , as a tapering item . |
| 17 | I would expect them to be more cautious . |
| 18 | I shall expect you to be there promptly , with a selection of shoes . |
| 19 | Keep it light and sometimes when things are not as clear as you would like them to be just trust and give the remedy you judge to be nearest . |
| 20 | Now I 'm sure the minister , councillor would like us to be more efficient and he would like us to be more responsive to tenants needs so let's do what the minister ask would like us to do and vote against this conservative amendment . |
| 21 | Now I 'm sure the minister , councillor would like us to be more efficient and he would like us to be more responsive to tenants needs so let's do what the minister ask would like us to do and vote against this conservative amendment . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm afraid everything 's not as I would like it to be here — you know , of course that we 've been without a Marshal for two months now — not that I ca n't cope after twenty years service in this village , but even so — ’ |
| 23 | It could be and sometimes was , but i er the standard takes a lot of keeping up and er Much of the influence comes from newspaper and superior people implanting it on the population by reiterating these standards which often are wishful and they would like it to be so , but er They were hard days , they were hungry days . |
| 24 | In some other cultures , there may have been socially validated ways of defining reality and of acting which would enable them to be less socially isolated , and therefore less neurotic because less privatized . |
| 25 | Log paper comes in several numbers of cycles ; the specimen in figure 11.6 contains three cycles , allowing the highest number to be as much as 10 3 or 1000 times as high as the smallest ; four cycle paper would allow it to be as much as 10 4 or 10,000 times as high . |
| 26 | ‘ But we need a point to be safe and it would allow us to be more relaxed against Blackburn and Cambridge . |
| 27 | Allied to this advice , I would counsel you to be very careful if you are using figures from real life in your story . |
| 28 | If a resident is mentally alert but weak physically , a shower or a bed bath may allow them to be completely private . |
| 29 | Let's get them to be more meaningful . ’ |
| 30 | My mother will want me to be more altruistic to hers , than my father will . |