Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [prep] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But remember that dreams and ambitions change as you get older , by his forties your high-flier may have turned into a slippers and spaniel man , and who knows , by then you may want to be PM . |
| 2 | We will continue to look at er the future programme er we will also as you know , look at ballistic missile defence which is another element to this and that must need to be fact facted in as well but I think clearly we are not talking about in the medium term er and longer term , we are talking about er a fairly late stage of the programme . |
| 3 | What you should look for is evidence of good , consistent results over a period of 10 to 20 years . |
| 4 | Another way to cope with the day is for the pro to enter totally into the spirit of it all : like the perfect publican , he must try to be arbiter , philosopher , psychologist and friend , all rolled into one . |
| 5 | ‘ Verses should aim to be gems , not gasbags . ’ |
| 6 | Ideally you should aim to be number one which is achieved by mauling with other boxers — hopefully in the ring . |
| 7 | If this procedure is the most appropriate way of correcting market failure and of otherwise setting the requisite ‘ sociopolitical limits on the exercise of economic rationality ’ then it would seem to follow that the goal of companies should continue to be profit maximisation , within the relevant constraints . |
| 8 | It proposed that the maximum for rape should continue to be life imprisonment and the maximum for non-consensual buggery where the victim was over 16 should be raised from ten years to life imprisonment . |
| 9 | As a friend of mine — who has only the most ephemeral links with any religious tradition — put it recently to me : " We must learn to be channels not engines ! " |
| 10 | Consequently , the man in the Kaduna street who watches an NTV report , hears the same story over the state radio and then reads about it in three or four daily papers receives several interpretations of the same event which are very different from one another — so much so that they may appear to be reports of separate events . |
| 11 | What may appear to be inconsistencies may , in fact , be code switches . |
| 12 | Decay may also extend beyond the damaged area , and although timber may appear to be sound , it may cause problems later . |
| 13 | Okay , so er what have we got there erm use supports use of support yeah material another thing you might think about is time . |
| 14 | She and Rufus and Adam himself had all been putting forward the names of people they knew who might want to be part of a commune , likely people of the right sort of age and the right sort of temperament . |
| 15 | She thought it outrageous that he should even think she might want to be friends in the circumstances . |
| 16 | ‘ What a pity your father is so set against accepting what he might consider to be charity from Tamar . |
| 17 | The adoption of the contextual approach to word-meaning outlined in this chapter has certain inescapable consequences that some might consider to be disadvantages . |
| 18 | There might appear to be elements of a feudal vassal status for the Teleuts here . |
| 19 | Sometimes one sees a family moving between associated crafts : the vintners and grocers could recruit from families in the lesser victualling trades , and workers in base metals might progress to being goldsmiths ( 104 , p.222 ) . |
| 20 | Well it 'll have to be school dinners Friday , is that what you 've ? |
| 21 | I always wanted to study art there , but it 'll have to be London now , I suppose — if it 's anywhere ! |
| 22 | No it 'll have to be Karen and Andy cos |
| 23 | Thing is , they 'll have to be redone , and quite sharpish . |
| 24 | Yeah it 'll have to be count . |
| 25 | I suppose it 's too late for cyclamen so it 'll have to be tulips or daffs — which do you think ? ’ |
| 26 | It 'll have to be cowardice ’ |
| 27 | It 'll have to be cash . |
| 28 | No , that 'll have to be number sixteen . |
| 29 | When a waiter asked me , and the people I was eating with , sentence ( 2 ) in Task 2 , we understood him , even though , in textbook terms , his words might seem to be nonsense . |
| 30 | However bad things might prove to be decades hence , in 1984 , they could not be so bad that religious feeling would simply have died out ; and he promises to visit Orwell in his illness , which he did . |