Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] to be [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if the unit is to be sited some considerable distance from the water supply , it may need to be thicker to prevent excessive voltage drop — loudspeaker wire , for example . |
| 2 | Chemical energy however is particularly easy to waste , through misuse or overuse , so levels of skill and control may need to be higher . |
| 3 | Notation which is to be inscribed on the spine of books may need to be shorter than that used in catalogues , indexes , databases and bibliographies . |
| 4 | The Government must look to be fairer to London , with equalisation at least in the grants system — perhaps on the basis of incomes , or by taking the regional banding approach . |
| 5 | Erm , we have , as you would have seen , and has already been noted , erm , balances considerably higher than the seven million we 've previously set , at the , at the moment , and these will erm , be able to make provision if necessary , for police pay should happen to be higher than er , we are told than , than the one point five percent , which has something that people have raised with me , and erm , have said , that oh of course you lose grants if you do n't decide it now , but that is not in fact the case . |
| 6 | However , some of our Tour players should aim to be better ambassadors . |
| 7 | This may appear to be easier , but it is not always wisest , especially for the novice who has never kept large cichlids before . |
| 8 | We might wish to be tougher on large firms if the government is pursuing a policy of protection with high import tariffs . |
| 9 | ‘ Like as I said to the General , miss , the young gentleman 'll have to be worse afore he 's better . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You 'll have to be quicker than you were a minute ago , then , ’ Scott hissed and pulled the car away from the kerb . |
| 11 | Some pundits were , rather foolishly , speculating that he might prove to be better than all of them . |
| 12 | But she 'd like to be nearer eight stone . |
| 13 | Also I 'd like to be taller and be able to afford to spend more money on clothes that would ‘ express my personality ’ . |
| 14 | The auction itself , while the organisers assured me was no more than their normal one , carried quite a few important items of furniture and there was also a wide range of smalls which commanded what I would consider to be better-than-normal prices . |
| 15 | More massive stars would need to be hotter to balance their stronger gravitational attraction , making the nuclear fusion reactions proceed so much more rapidly that they would use up their hydrogen in as little as a hundred million years . |
| 16 | Add to that the potential extra income which the larger company might attract from advertisers and the additional resources for making and selling programmes to the national network and the region would appear to be better-placed by this merger . |
| 17 | ‘ Personally I would like to be taller , but certainly not curvier . |
| 18 | With the Gunners looking to make a rapid movement up the Premier League , Graham added : ‘ I would like to be higher in the table and now it 's time to put things right . |
| 19 | Interest rates would have to be higher and there is a risk that a Labour government facing ‘ difficult choices ’ would be tempted to devalue sterling , as feared by financial markets . |
| 20 | If y stood at 40% , x would have to be greater than 80% for any excess seat to be won . |
| 21 | This shape would work in either a rectangular frame , as in this case , or a square diamond would fit into a square mount , although it would have to be shorter rather than the elongated shape I have used here . |
| 22 | Last autumn it was stated in a document that there would have to be further subscriptions of finance before er , the project became profitable . |
| 23 | As the losses would tend to be greater in the summer period this figure is an under estimate . |
| 24 | Here the prevalence of people susceptible to infectious agents would tend to be higher than in urban areas or in adjacent rural areas , which show no excess ( tables II and VI ) . |
| 25 | In a heated market , invariably the value placed on the hotel would tend to be higher than historical information . |
| 26 | An initial hollow , whether scoured by the wind or not , would tend to be damper than the surrounding desert and thus chemical weathering would be greater there . |
| 27 | Also , other measures of pairwise probe distance/similarity may prove to be better-suited to future applications than the maximum-likelihood distance used here . |
| 28 | In most secondary schools , TVEI has laid the necessary foundations ; but TVEI criteria are ( sensibly ) less specific than the statutory requirements of the National Curriculum , and planning for the latter will need to be sharper . |
| 29 | ( Other standards like fruit and ornamental trees will be thicker and the sacking strip will need to be wider and the actual tie bigger , but the principle remains exactly the same . ) |
| 30 | The breaking and training process will need to be longer than usual and extra care must be taken to ensure that new lessons are clearly taught . |