Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You would n't want me to be vain . |
| 2 | ‘ Do you want me to be nice or honest ? ’ |
| 3 | I knew he would n't want me to be pushy and , hard though it was , I decided to wait until the end of the week and then invite him round for dinner . |
| 4 | ‘ Do you want me to be married ? ’ |
| 5 | You do want me to be precise about what I tell you ? ’ |
| 6 | We do not want them to be upset , so we keep them away from funerals , or from saying goodbye , face to face , to their relatives and friends . |
| 7 | She knew that her grown-ups were frightened and she did not want them to be frightened , but she also knew that Fenna was a mightier protection than all their loving care could ever be . |
| 8 | Would you want them to be able to express their emotions more intensely and precisely , able to show how they feel ? |
| 9 | Such cases are rare , though the Queen would probably prefer them to be nonexistent . |
| 10 | You see they 've nothing to be frightened of any more . |
| 11 | Also , you may want someone to be able to see base figures and a final result , but not the devious manipulations you have performed on the route twixt the two . |
| 12 | ‘ Silas — are you saying you ca n't trust me to be kind ? ’ |
| 13 | It would delight me to be able to buy you presents ; to take you with me to my friends ' houses , to the theatre , to Biarritz , to Cannes — wherever it pleased you to go . ’ |
| 14 | If I find I can trust you to be sensible . ’ |
| 15 | In the many conversations I had with Ronnie that year , I never heard Ronnie deny it ; nor did I ever know him to be disloyal . |
| 16 | An obvious instance would be the contrast between the suggestion that although we understand the proposition that God exists , we could have no evidence that it is true , and the suggestion that the proposition is incomprehensible to us , and hence a fortiori we can neither know it to be true nor be justified in believing it . |
| 17 | that 's one place you would need it to be washable . |
| 18 | ‘ But I do n't consider it to be adolescent . |
| 19 | A decision to the contrary in the British Columbia Court of Appeal , City of Prince George v. British Columbia Television System Ltd. , 95 D.L.R. ( 3d ) 577 , held that a municipality could sue for libel , but did not consider the argument of competing interests and the balancing exercise required under article 10 , and I do not consider it to be relevant to this appeal . |
| 20 | ‘ You ca n't expect me to be sorry he left the place to me and not to you . |
| 21 | Yeah well you ca n't expect me to be perfect all the time . |
| 22 | You do n't expect me to be surprised , do you ? ’ |
| 23 | If the military regimes of the Interregnum were prepared within reason to allow lay men and women to be godly in whichever way seemed most appropriate to them , they did expect them to be godly in some way . |
| 24 | Yeah , everyone was going on at how rough they are , I mean you ca n't as I 've said before you ca n't exactly expect them to be super models . |
| 25 | Butterflies and moths are among the most beautiful insects and one does not expect them to be venomous or poisonous . |
| 26 | Equally , she could n't expect them to be psychic and intuit when it was okay . |
| 27 | You can not expect them to be house-trained and , indeed , this can subsequently prove a far more arduous task than normal . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It 's the job of the reporter to interpret facts and schools can not expect them to be mere mouthpieces . |
| 30 | 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 . |