Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [be] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are determined to make it work — the last thing I want is to be a laughing stock among local farmers if I fail . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ What I want is to be in charge of myself , to decide what I will or will not do . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ All I want is to be able to go out and play with my friends , ’ she says . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's so wonderful — all I want is to be with her and I get terribly possessive . |
| 5 | ‘ He ca n't hold my grandmother 's misguided behaviour against me when all I want is to be part of the family , to know I belong . ’ |
| 6 | All I seek is to be judged on my record and the record of this group . |
| 7 | All I ask is to be left to get on with my work , and enough support to make it possible . |
| 8 | County Councillor , Councillor on my right , I think is to be congratulated on the work he has done with County Highways on our behalf , and has written to District Council recommending refusal . |
| 9 | Our roads are in a mess and anything that will speed up improving that situation I think is to be welcomed . |
| 10 | My biggest fantasy I think was to be a sort of assistant , a nurse , holding Boy 's hand while O worked on him . |
| 11 | Beautiful though your age is , many though the intellects that adorn it , and ugly though my age is , cruel many of its leaders , I believe that the period from which I come is to be preferred to yours in this respect . |
| 12 | The other place I 've been to is Thailand , where prostitution is blatantly up-front and hard to avoid . |
| 13 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 14 | Who said ‘ all I desire is to be left alone ’ ? |
| 15 | What I need is to be alone . ’ |
| 16 | None of my friends have children and all the mother-and-toddler groups I have been to are full of older mums . |
| 17 | The b l and b 2 vibrations are equally symmetric , and an arbitrary choice has to be made , first as to which set is to be labeled b 1 , and secondly as to whether to maintain the same order in mode numbering . |
| 18 | Returning to the sea-urchin embryo , it can be seen that the animal-vegetal differences could be used to establish the boundary regions , that is , which end is to be which . |
| 19 | ‘ The matters to which regard is to be had in particular … are any of the following which appear to be relevant — ; ( a ) the strength of the bargaining positions of the parties relative to each other , taking into account ( among other things ) alternative means by which the customer 's requirements could have been met ; ( b ) whether the customer received an inducement to agree to the term , or in accepting it had an opportunity of entering into a similar contract with other persons , but without having to accept a similar term ; ( c ) whether the customer knew or ought reasonably to have known of the existence of the term ( having regard , among other things , to any custom of the trade and any previous course of dealing between the parties ) ; ( d ) where the term excludes or restricts any relevant liability if some condition is not complied with , whether it was reasonable at the time of the contract to expect that compliance with that condition would be practic-able ; ( e ) whether the goods were manufactured , processed or adapted to the special order of the customer . ’ |
| 20 | If you find that the property you want is to be sold at Auction , remember that a lot of time , effort and fees can be expended prior to an Auction and there is no guarantee that you will be successful in purchasing the property . |
| 21 | What you want is to be able to answer a few sensible questions uniquely identifying you , the trouble is there 's probably a repertoire of only ten of those questions , you 're going to get asked three or four of them , but those questions , your date of birth , your telephone number , the er address of your bank and so on and so forth , if you 're a private detective you can get those , you can have them on a sheet of paper and you can pretend to be whoever you like . |
| 22 | You do n't work for money , the haves conceded , all you want is to be near us in order to become us . |
| 23 | You are at the moment , the best thing you get is to be in the top hundred . |
| 24 | ‘ Apart from that , all you need is to be passed fit and healthy for a doctor 's examination . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I live 20 minutes away from the set , but when you are working 16 hours a day the last thing you need is to be in a foreign country with a small child . |
| 26 | Er the reason want referring because has n't commenced it 's considered er view and the last thing we want is to be in business actually doing is enclosing on St Albans and anything that St Albans does n't actually want . |
| 27 | What we want is to be working here . |
| 28 | We will not normally discuss the technology out of which the architectures that we describe are to be implemented . |
| 29 | One of the most obvious practical needs we have is to be able to communicate . |
| 30 | Easson noted : ‘ One of the things we need is to be together with these guys for a lengthier period , whether pre-season , or an off-season tour . ’ |