Example sentences of "he [modal v] [vb infin] to [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well-dressed and well-spoken , he may claim to be a solicitor , an official from a well-known organisation , or from the local council . |
| 2 | It appears reasonable to claim that a man without the capacity to put himself in another 's place could not understand a moral appeal ( even if he should happen to be a law-abiding man who accepts commands and prohibitions on external authority ) , just as someone incapable of shifting temporal viewpoints could not understand an appeal to his future interests . |
| 3 | I think it is absolutely plain that there is no possibility , that any local authority wherever Paul were living would find it possible to that he should cease to be a statement in child , it is quite clear , I think , that he is bound to remain a child with a statement of special educational needs , in those circumstances any local authority would have the statutory duty to provide for his education , either at or somewhere else and in practice it seems to me there is no reasonable possibility of his being moved from after he has spent , will it be probably more than four years there perhaps five years there , that I think is not a possibility which has to be catered for . |
| 4 | Many of those on board who were of merely ordinary calibre would serve by yielding up their vital force to feed the Emperor 's insatiable soul , so that he could continue to be a watchful beacon and protector . |
| 5 | Maybe he 'd want to be a physician like his father . |
| 6 | He 'd have to be a stranger . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ He 'd have to be a merchant or a spy , ’ said Ymor . |
| 8 | I mean he went to school , he went to oh school , but he lived at Enfield and erm , you 'd have never thought then that he had got it in him and , so dry I said to dad I said he never ought to be a bus driver , cos the things he comes out with , he 'd have to be a comedian , I mean he 's , I mean as er , what , they used to call the comedians did n't they , three or four of them on the telly , and I mean |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ HE 'D LIKE TO BE A DOCTOR ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He 'd need to be a fanatic , ’ Keith said grimly . |
| 12 | He says that Wilko always talked in riddles with him , became jealous at his popularity and so sold him to the scum so he would appear to be a traitor . |
| 13 | His inclination meant that he would aim to be a pilot . |
| 14 | No doubt he would like to be a Muslim with four wives all dedicated to his comfort . |
| 15 | He would like to be a director . |
| 16 | ‘ Thus skidding violently from one side to the other , his youth approached the moment at which he would begin to be a person . ’ |
| 17 | When I was a child I believed my father when he said he would live to be a hundred . |
| 18 | Now 52 , he has dominated grand de luxe fashion for two decades , and he looks as if he will continue to be a powerful force in fashion into the twenty-first century . |