Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is one of Robin Child 's primary aims that everyone should learn to be visually literate , to learn to read a picture as they would a book . |
| 2 | My reply was that I doubted if any such plan had a remote chance of success , and that I would want to be assured of the truthfulness and authenticity of the document he was planning to send me . |
| 3 | I was certainly to do with feeling that I would have to be a little bit slimmer , that I would have to be acceptable to other people , that I would have to change my shape and at the same time , I could not resist consuming large amounts of food . |
| 4 | I was certainly to do with feeling that I would have to be a little bit slimmer , that I would have to be acceptable to other people , that I would have to change my shape and at the same time , I could not resist consuming large amounts of food . |
| 5 | When I met my husband , I knew he was the one for me , and I knew that I would have to be honest if our marriage was n't to be based on a lie . |
| 6 | ‘ I have always thought that I would like to be a fashion designer . |
| 7 | So much to that I made it clear to my club that I would like to be selected as a tighthead ’ . |
| 8 | This is a genuine project and one that I would like to be completed before the end of the summer . |
| 9 | I hope that I will prove to be wrong about the Bill . |
| 10 | I worked very hard and soon Professor Waldman and I realized that I could learn to be a very good scientist . |
| 11 | I have decided that I should try to be objective instead , and reflect for a moment . |
| 12 | I do n't know that I 'd want to be left alone with her for any length of time . " |
| 13 | I always had this thing in the back of my mind that I 'd like to be Head Gardener at Killerton one day , because of the type of garden it is , because of its size and because of the plant content . |
| 14 | It 's just that I 'd like to be doing more outside work . |
| 15 | Escalating crime figures prove that nobody can afford to be complacent about security . |
| 16 | Although Bernice could understand her wish for peace and quiet , Ell must be joking saying that she would prefer to be back home . |
| 17 | Annely Juda said at the time that she would have to be carried out of the building rather than leave . |
| 18 | I asked Joyce what aspect of her phobia she felt still remained and she said that she would like to be able to go into an open space such as a park , where there were likely to be many more birds around . |
| 19 | " I just think that she might prove to be somewhat difficult to dispose of … oh , do n't look so surprised . |
| 20 | I undressed her in her South Kensington hotel room and fucked her , only retreating to the safety of the street outside when she asked me to stay the night so that she could pretend to be my mother . |
| 21 | If you have any news items , information of coming events or photographs that you would like to be considered for publication in The Voice , please send them to : Paul Rowlands , by the beginning of each month . |
| 22 | IF YOU have any news items , information of forthcoming events or photographs that you would like to be considered for publication on The Youth Page of The Voice , please send them to Paul Rowlands . |
| 23 | The ACP will then consider the report at its next meeting , and it may be that you would like to be present at that meeting . |
| 24 | I had not done so before merely because I had not thought of them in this context ; I had supposed that you might prefer to be at some slight remove from the nefarious influences of the department … |
| 25 | Belinda if we can start with you more or less erm I heard the other day that you 're half thinking that you might like to be a nurse ? |
| 26 | ‘ The National Front Disco ’ is such a self-evidently silly title and the sentiments and tone so obviously satirical that you 'd have to be pretty blinkered to be offended by it . |
| 27 | List at least five things that you could do to be a bargain for your partner . |
| 28 | Grading is a method of achieving a shorthand synthesis of every possible quality that one might wish to be included in a profile , consolidated into a symbol which examiners understand pragmatically with reference to a platonic point of reference existing in the minds of a group of examiners who have worked together , while a profile , however detailed , can never be more than an attempt to put down all those qualities . |
| 29 | For another thing , areas that one would expect to be homologous on the basis of their connections appear totally different in other ways . |
| 30 | Even if one were to concede to McDowell that there could be traffic in simple message types before the Gricean hump , I wish to maintain that one would have to be over the hump ( or at least capable of being in such states as are involved in the hump ) before one 's language could evolve syntactic structure of the kind yielding infinite generative capacity . |