Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er at this stage I do n't think so to be honest with you because |
| 2 | I do n't think so to be perfectly honest |
| 3 | Thus , for basic civic rights like not being enslaved or imprisoned without trial , people should need only to be people . |
| 4 | She added , by way of conversation , that she must wait patiently to be relieved of the burden of living . |
| 5 | Business letters do not need always to be impersonal and formal . |
| 6 | Do n't wait here to be made a scapegoat , go , now … quickly ! ’ |
| 7 | Luckily penicillin became available and was found to be highly effective in what we would consider today to be almost homeopathic doses . |
| 8 | Edward , who had probably shrewdly observed that this pretentious lordling , though haughty in manner , was a vacillating and easily manipulated nonentity , did not trouble even to be civil to his puppet or to Scottish laws and traditions . |
| 9 | More recently , of course , Hytner has become the internationally acclaimed director of Miss Saigon , but he claims that he does n't want just to be a director of musicals , or only of anything else for that matter . |
| 10 | The ICS , as a body , had never been much taken with political reform , sensing correctly that it set in motion a process whereby they could expect only to be replaced , and both reason and sentiment told them that this would never do . |
| 11 | On the other hand , in so far as general provisions such as Articles 100 and 235 may be used in this area , national competence would appear only to be excluded to the extent that the Community has enacted legislation . |
| 12 | Another complicating factor is the large number of organisations that are inevitably involved in all the different aspects of rural development , although on the small scale of Lewis and Harris they would appear already to be somewhat better integrated than in many other places . |
| 13 | However , at the outset it may be said that to some extent the political objective of requiring the Community legislative institutions to bear those considerations in mind would appear already to be being observed ; for example , Council Decision 92/421 on tourism policy expressly refers in its recitals to ‘ the need to comply with the subsidiarity principle ’ . |
| 14 | Beyond this , what might appear just to be a way of illustrating how motets were put together — singing the two or three different , often highly contrasted melodies individually before putting them together as a polyphonic , multi-texted whole — may equally well represent a valid reflection of the manner in which they were originally performed . |
| 15 | Recommendations are also sought from the Area Education Officers , although these do not appear always to be forthcoming . |
| 16 | But in the sphere of education , the concept would appear still to be flourishing , even if in a somewhat limited form , as stated above . |
| 17 | Interest due on debts which are preferential under s 386 of and Sched 6 to the Act would not appear also to be preferential . |
| 18 | But , it will be objected , these theorists actually regard the status of moral patients as akin to that of slaves , and we would expect also to be reminded that contemporary opinion in the civilised world , despite pockets of resistance , is still largely in agreement with this view . |
| 19 | We must invest now to be ready . ’ |
| 20 | This is highly regarded and influential in police circles and the social worker would do well to be aware of its thinking . |
| 21 | This snowstorm might put them off , but we would do well to be extra watchful tonight . ’ |
| 22 | Assuming admissible statements to establish parliamentary intention are limited , as would appear presently to be the case , to parliamentary statements , there remain grey areas in the application of the rule . |
| 23 | I guarantee that if one were to sit down , go back to basics , and argue through the parameters as suggested exclusively by the score , and not from one 's aural knowledge of the record catalogue ( and that hoary old chestnut , a ‘ classic ’ version ) , one would encounter a far greater consensus of opinion than would appear initially to be the case . |
| 24 | Article 35 allows an obligation to be imposed upon a third State if the parties so intend , and the third party accepts it in writing.139 — The juridical basis for the third party 's obligation would appear therefore to be an ancillary ( or collateral ) agreement in writing . |
| 25 | Edward said , turning his august profile with a politeness that Emily did n't believe necessarily to be lasting . |
| 26 | There are , as Mr Moynihan points out , only seven countries in the world that can claim both to be homogeneous and to have no border problems . |
| 27 | I , I do n't remember really to be honest but I , I erm erm Malcolm said something once which so I was n't surprised , you know , ca n't remember exactly what . |
| 28 | I 'd like tomorrow to be the happiest day of her life , with nothing to mar it at all . |
| 29 | Petitions did not begin simply to be pressed on parliament in large numbers on a few issues ; the range of grievances expanded in petitioning . |
| 30 | ‘ No strings , Fran , unless , of course , you 'd like there to be some . ’ |