Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] to be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the textuality of history , I mean to suggest , firstly , that we can have no access to a full and authentic past , a lived material existence , unmediated by the surviving textual traces of the society in question — traces whose survival we can not assume to be merely contingent but must rather presume to be at least partially consequent upon complex and subtle social processes of preservation and effacement ; and secondly , that those textual traces are themselves subject to subsequent textual mediations when they are construed as the ‘ documents ’ upon which historians ground their own texts , called histories . |
| 2 | During the next fortnight , she divided her attentions equally between him and Dunbar , but , she whispered to Harry one evening in the back of the Bentley , she would much prefer to be with him and she was being nice to Pogo only because she did n't want to hurt his feelings . |
| 3 | ’ I do n't much want to be at home on my own . |
| 4 | They do need support , they do need often 24 hour attention , but they do not necessarily need to be in hospital . |
| 5 | She did n't much like to be on her own . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I would so like to be with people . ’ |
| 7 | Another point illustrated by the trees is that arms races do not necessarily have to be between members of different species . |
| 8 | His line was that he 'd lost contact with Malcolm because he could only stand to be with him for so long at a stretch . |
| 9 | Hence Sharon and partner Martin can only get to be with their pedigree chum for a few precious hours on Sunday mornings at kennels in Wickford . |
| 10 | ‘ A lot of times , husbands and wives will not want to be with anybody but themselves . |
| 11 | I could see that if the others achieved their work ambitions they would not be in the house all day , and I did not want to be at home on my own . |
| 12 | That having been said , I would not want to be without the very special qualities of this new Teldec release — a most moving interpretation brilliantly performed . |
| 13 | Of the two , Biddulph again offer the finest transfers , though I would not want to be without Cortot 's version of the Liszt Sonata on Music and Arts where , despite so may battle-scarred moments , his performance blazes with an endearingly old-fashioned poetry , thunder and lightning . |
| 14 | They do not want to be in the position of having to make decisions . |
| 15 | Gedge can not remember a time when he did not want to be in a pop group . |
| 16 | At the same time they wanted to be able to increase their staffing as and when orders came along , and did not want to be in a position to have to refuse orders because they did not have the staff , or lose them because they could not promise fast enough delivery . |
| 17 | It is always almost impossible for a single practitioner to obtain more than the other firms in the area are obtaining and you do not want to be in a position of being undersold because your colleagues in other firms have an unrealistic view about what should be charged . |
| 18 | Obviously we do not want to be in two minds up to the last day and he would n't do that but there is quite a a period of discretion where the time gets shorter and er he would have to make a judgement . |
| 19 | Well I 've visited both Cambodia itself and the camps , er first of all in the camps , the situation is appalling because there are very many people who do not want to be in those camps and are really in effect being held there against their will , and what has been extraordinary until this year , is that the people who 've been holding them there against their will have been the Phol Pot dominated so-called coalition government and on the basis of the people being in the camps , that , that , that regime has gone on to claim recognition at the United Nations ; an appalling situation . |
| 20 | But our sons now do not want to be like us . " |
| 21 | Brig Cumming said he remained happy with the choice of Vitez , which he did not consider to be under threat at the moment . |
| 22 | You do not need to be on income support to get a crisis loan but you must be able to show that it is the only means of preventing serious risk to you or your partner 's health and safety . |
| 23 | And adults do not need to be on the verge of shouting or crying for these mechanisms to be involved . |
| 24 | Storage Directories may be anywhere on the VMS system on which LIFESPAN resides ; they do not need to be on the same device , or pseudo-device , as the Process Directory , nor do they need to be on the same device as each other . |
| 25 | The supply does not need to be to the ultimate consumer . |
| 26 | The Kings did not need to be at their pearly best to win 111-77 . |
| 27 | The placing of the concept of the Created God entirely in that period of the earth 's history which follows the advent of life , means that science and religion do not need to be at variance . |
| 28 | It is nature 's version of inductive reasoning : animals learn only cues which tend to predict the imminent arrival of something desirable , like food , and the reliability of the new cue does not need to be by any means perfect . |
| 29 | Yet a recent survey showed that a quarter of the ‘ patients ’ do not need to be in a mental institution at all and a half of them could live in the outside world given proper support . |
| 30 | ‘ You can not expect to be in the national squad unless you can prove that you are good enough , so I just have to continue the learning process , equip myself fully for the task , get a bit fitter and that , hopefully , will be at least half the battle ’ . |