Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] they to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not simply that it is a vital matter for some small group of people ( as some may think them to be ) called ‘ Christian feminists ’ who would reconcile their feminism with their Christian faith . |
| 2 | Do n't forget , you may need them to be there for you , another time , another place ! |
| 3 | There are , however , considerable problems with such approaches , however desirable radical adult educators may consider them to be . |
| 4 | So the lesson is that if you use masking tape , or any other pressure sensitive tape , to hinge your works of art on paper , you should expect them to be showing yellow stains form the adhesive in four to five years time . |
| 5 | But if light is composed of particles , one might expect them to be affected by gravity in the same way that cannonballs , rockets , and planets are . |
| 6 | Data on dose for individual fathers are not presented because this information might enable them to be identified . |
| 7 | But this might allow them to be retained , when other class affiliations are lost . |
| 8 | To take this initiative and extend it to include a range of interests which they can use , whether or not they are employed in the future , might help them to be on a more equal footing with their peers who have not been in public care . |
| 9 | Although these are ‘ laboratory ’ specimens , they 've been kicking around for about six months and I 'd expect them to be detected quickly . |
| 10 | The eventual winners were the ever-so knowledgeable team from R & D ( well , you 'd expect them to be bright would n't you ? ) |
| 11 | those words were carefully chosen as as I 'm sure sure you 'd expect them to be . |
| 12 | And I 'd expect them to be here . |
| 13 | I 'd expect them to be wasting their time on this foolish nonsense and not me . |
| 14 | If there was no correlation , well you 'd expect them to be mixed up a bit so that negatives might occur with negatives or they might occur with positives vice-versa Now , I 'm g try and give you a feel for how these numbers , how we work out the correlation coefficient in terms of Z scores . |
| 15 | Well the motives are to offer more choice , to provide more competition in the credit card market and a better deal for customers and , to the extent that there are prices changes , we 'd expect them to be beneficial , particularly to those who are buying with cash or debit cards rather than credit cards . |
| 16 | People are very seldom exactly what you 'd like them to be |
| 17 | I 'd like them to be able to walk to school , and that 's what they could do if this school was open . |
| 18 | Yeah , and there 's another couple of guys and they were saying that how strict the training was when they first took it on you know that the their masters used to beat them and everything , into submission , s said they had to have complete submission before they could train them to be what they were , you know , bring them up , teach them and train them |
| 19 | So I would prefer them to be assessed in that way than to post them off , and I 'm glad we 've got that choice … |
| 20 | I am really glad of it ; I do n't think I would want them to be there , just in case I lost . |
| 21 | You would consider them to be a sign of weakness ! ’ |
| 22 | Our own children are now so far removed from danger , at least of the primal kind , and these Masai are so close to it , that you would expect them to be cowed and fearful . |
| 23 | On the other hand we have noticed that the Greeks were much less curious than we would expect them to be about certain countries within their reach and indeed well inside their sphere of economic and cultural influence . |
| 24 | I would expect them to be more cautious . |
| 25 | The changes in eicosanoids reflected the clinical symptoms ; and we would expect them to be greater in severely symptomatic patients . |
| 26 | I would go further Chairman , in terms of the version we reach now , I would be very surprised if they do reach those figures , and , er , why I would expect them to be substantially less , because the policy which is being proposed at this stage is one of using joint finance monies as a one hundred percent grant , one-off grants for one or two years in support of schemes , rather than in , as a tapering item . |
| 27 | We would expect them to be proceeding on the basis of a specific sector , a general location in sufficient detail to enable them to place a symbol on the key diagram in the approximate location where they think a new settlement should go . |
| 28 | Positive , negative , and the thing at the end is a Z , of sorts All scores above the mean , if you converted them to a Z score you would expect them to be positive . |
| 29 | A a at precisely the point where one one would expect them to be in the position to be able to encroach on the rich they are actually this is , this is the promotion of the rich peasant economy . |
| 30 | People are very seldom exactly what you would like them to be . ’ |