Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tithonus can see the normal human beings who can die and so longs to be one of them . |
| 2 | ‘ Dana is n't really a man-eater ; she only wants to be happy . ’ |
| 3 | I told them , as I tell alumni wherever I meet them , that the best thing you can do for the University is to remember its strengths , and in your normal professional and daily lives to be prepared to speak up on the University 's behalf when you think it is appropriate . |
| 4 | Your pond only has to be large enough to catch the returning water . |
| 5 | In making time to provide reflection the head not only has to be clear about the relative priority of helping out , taking on chores and providing workaday leadership but also has to have confidence in the extent to which his or her colleagues expect leadership . |
| 6 | Processed food , therefore , not only tends to be deficient in essential nutrients but also contains an increasing array of possibly toxic artificial chemicals . |
| 7 | Presumably , approaching a text from a linguistic point of view only ceases to be extraordinary , when one compares it both to the complex peculiarity of the other ways texts are handled , and the fact that the " naive " reader is a mythical beast . |
| 8 | When the truth of the relationship together is faced , the prospect of living alone suddenly ceases to be unbearable . |
| 9 | The flow front appears as a mass of rounded pillows , disappearing into the blue haze of the Pacific , all appears to be motionless . |
| 10 | From this you might learn about Richardson 's method of writing , as well as about differences between writing which is really private compared to writing which only pretends to be private . |
| 11 | The Bride only pretends to be excited . |
| 12 | There only seems to be one escape route from this cycle — inclusion in the Olympics . |
| 13 | ‘ I know he only means to be friendly and appear relaxed . ’ |
| 14 | And time out : Another blow for the girl who just wants to be one of the boys . |
| 15 | ‘ She just wants to be alone with her boys to try to forget the separation traumas . |
| 16 | THEY say every picture tells a story … and these pictures show a woman who just wants to be alone . |
| 17 | It just has to be unpicked , wound into balls , reknitted and resteamed . |
| 18 | ‘ Something so realistic just has to be accurate ! |
| 19 | Elaine desperately wants to be free : free to fall in love , work hard and have fun . |
| 20 | I think Alone In the Dark just happens to be one of those games . |
| 21 | One is that the figure of 300 per cent increase in productivity just happens to be that which would have had to occur to cost-justify the installation of CAD given capital and wage costs in the early 1980s in the UK when this figure gained currency . |
| 22 | It just happens to be legal . ’ |
| 23 | I know that 's very boring of me , but it just happens to be true , my dear . |
| 24 | In this case it just happens to be true . ’ |
| 25 | A day 's golf with the president of this company or that company when the fellow who makes up the four and plays with the president of the corporation just happens to be last year 's Masters Champion . |
| 26 | But that 's , but that 's what I mean , they 're making , they 're saying let's make , when the white people make films black and white people watch them , they 're not specifically made for white people , not specifically made for black people , it just happens to be white actors . |
| 27 | Whereas normally people would have , in the O U P , U K , which just happens to be 6 out of 31 . |
| 28 | The vorticity intensification process will be strongest where the vorticity already happens to be large . |
| 29 | However , legal expenses insurance generally tends to be full of small print and exclusions . |
| 30 | The rule in Rylands v. Fletcher thus ceases to be available at the very moment when the plaintiff needs it . |