Example sentences of "[subord] [indef pn] [vb -s] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stories read as distillations of the life or experience of ordinary people ( working people , lower-middle-class and also the ‘ emarginated ’ , the young , the unemployed , the old ) plucked from a grey background where nothing appears to be going on . |
| 2 | ‘ We do not choose this condition any more than someone chooses to be a diabetic , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Charities have little money to spend on fees , so nobody wants to be seen looking after them . |
| 4 | And , although nobody wishes to be exploited with low wages and very difficult conditions , it is frankly better to find the ways and means of presenting yourself somehow , than not perform at all . |
| 5 | In an article in the TES ( 14/9/90 ) Mary Castle claimed that there are fourteen local authorities that insist their schools should have no direct contact with journalists , so one needs to be clear about the LEA regulations before giving a story about the school to the press . |
| 6 | ‘ She 's rather old , so one has to be frightfully careful , but I know you will be . |
| 7 | I do n't anybody absolutely rowdy and out of it if somebody 's to be perfectly honest . |
| 8 | If somebody has to be here , I 'd rather it was you . ’ |
| 9 | Nevertheless , there are delays in discharge at the moment , often caused by silly things like a lack of commodes , and the nurses worry that if everything has to be in place before discharge then there will be more delays . |
| 10 | Yes , I wanted to emphasise the way some men feel constrain before , not because I want to suggest it 's now becoming a problem for men and we should be worrying about them , but because you asked what prospects there were for doing something about it and I think if something 's to be done about it , and it 's a problem of everyone devising new standards of behaviour , it 's very important that quite large numbers of men should be prepared to play a part in trying to work out what these standards should be , and there is quite substantial interest in trying to do that , both at the level of the teaching staff at the university and at the level of the undergraduates . |
| 11 | If something needs to be done , like a murder or a retaliatory bomb outrage , those in charge do not conceal their wishes behind fine phrases . |
| 12 | For instance , someone contemplating a sentence like the following ( from an issue of Women 's Journal ) might be excused for suspecting that so-called ‘ natural gender ’ is natural only if one happens to be male : |
| 13 | If one wants to be powerful , it is useful to appear invulnerable ; such things as crying , showing emotion and expressing intimacy connote weakness . |
| 14 | If one wants to be accepted as a mainstream , serious film-maker it does n't strike me , if I were in that position , as a shrewd career move . |
| 15 | I am informed that the Clarion Cry is the thing to read if one wishes to be in the know . ’ |
| 16 | If anyone needs to be convinced about the need to release the money for grants , it is the hon. Gentleman 's right hon. Friend , Commissioner Millan , who is now attacking the additionality rules that he defended when he was Secretary of State for Scotland . |
| 17 | If anyone claims to be making a factual statement , then they ought to be able to state what observations would be relevant to determining the truth or falsity of that statement . |
| 18 | If anyone claims to be from the Gas Board , Electricity Board , council , or any such body , keep the chain on the door and tell them that you only admit such people by appointment . |
| 19 | ‘ So if anyone wants to be on television in America , they 'd better be at my party . ’ |
| 20 | If everything seems to have been fixed in place try tilting the picture at a slight angle to see if anything seems to be slipping . |
| 21 | Playing football , telling a joke or making model aeroplanes are normally seen as second-order experiences , unless one happens to be a professional footballer , a comedian or a model aeroplane manufacturer . |
| 22 | But it has only been half successful because everyone wants to be able to go everywhere . |
| 23 | In fact , as early as October 1 , when your ruler Neptune is challenged by Jupiter in Cancer , you will realise that money is really only half the battle or problem you 're facing this month — because someone appears to be breaking all the rules , if not breaking your heart . |
| 24 | Others said they had now decided to speak out because something has to be done . |
| 25 | But since nobody wants to be a cop in Poland these days — the pay stinks , and the people hate you — those occasions are few . |
| 26 | The problem here is that , since one needs to be in place long before sunrise , in order to prepare for the shot , one can not walk directly to the site . |
| 27 | The problem here is that , since one needs to be in place long before sunrise , in order to prepare for the shot , one can not walk directly to the site . |
| 28 | It turns out to be a surprisingly exact science , in which ten or fifteen minutes are spent deliberating over whether someone deserves to be graded ‘ adequate ’ or ‘ limited ’ for their motivation or their ability to organize . |
| 29 | Provided that an object is conceived to be real , reactions to it are the same in kind whether one happens to be perceiving or imagining it ; and if in the latter case one reacts less strongly , that is because one is also less aware of it . |
| 30 | Over against heaven is hell , separation from God , and again there is a wide variety of views as to whether one has to be ‘ actively bad ’ or just unconverted to be in hell after death . |