Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anti-Montanist reaction reinforced the belief that the apostolic canon is closed ; but it did nothing to diminish millenarian hopes which long retained orthodox defenders , though there were also second-century interpreters of the Apocalypse who did not think intended to be literal and earthly the seer 's vision of Christ returning to a rebuilt Jerusalem . |
| 2 | It would have been handled , she knew , with all the caution that the dust from the moon had been , since it might have proven to be toxic as any of the man-made monstrosities aboard Titron . |
| 3 | Surprisingly , it has taken a long time to arrange something that most would have considered to be basic . |
| 4 | How could it have felt to be lonely and dumb ? |
| 5 | But Charlotte would have needed to be alone with him , decks cleared of their differences , for certainty on the point . |
| 6 | ‘ I would n't have dared to be late , ’ she flung back over her shoulder , hoping he recognised the sarcasm in her tone . |
| 7 | You would have had to be superhuman not to be a little corrupted by the power she had . |
| 8 | The court held that for the application of the rule to have been lawful it would have had to be justifiable irrespective of race or ethnic or national origins . |
| 9 | Jules had told her she was attractive , Félix found her so , and she would have had to be blind not to see the admiring glances of strangers when she went to a café or on a promenade with Jules . |
| 10 | She would have had to be blind not to see the mixture of desire and destruction in the getsure . |
| 11 | I would have thought to be honest , I would have thought you do n't need any of that area |
| 12 | Some visitors may have proved to be undesirable or objectionable , or perhaps have left without paying their bill , and therefore it is essential that this type of guest be blacklisted for future reference . |
| 13 | Without an infusion of funds from the DHSS ( now DSS ) , fewer private homes would have been established and many more would have proved to be unprofitable . |
| 14 | On the other hand , without some active energy from the man , what would she ever have found to be interested in ? |
| 15 | We might finally note that the court is able to rely as an aid to discovering intention on the proposition that what no reasonable board could have believed to be beneficial to the company , the actual board could not have believed either , or , in other words , that where the means adopted could not on any reasonable view lead to the end of benefiting the company , the directors could not have been motivated by a desire to achieve that end . |
| 16 | ‘ You might have wanted to be alone . ’ |
| 17 | Certainly , by now , we should have learned to be cautious about simplified statements which attempt to outline the central features of ‘ the family in modern society ’ . |
| 18 | He might not have meant to be comforting , but she felt a flood of warmth ; energy passed from his fingers to hers like a life-force and Jenna did n't know what to say . |
| 19 | However , many of the 1.3 million recipients who would have ceased to be eligible for supplementary benefit were receiving what is called certificated housing benefit . |
| 20 | In the ancient world slaves had been most commonly used as domestic servants and artisans , and this may well have continued to be true in the Middle Ages . |
| 21 | They were beautiful , and she would have loved to be able to buy one , but even the simplest was far beyond her pocket . |
| 22 | He must already have begun to be aware that his dependency on alcohol was weakening his creative drive . |
| 23 | Comrade Andrew said he would have liked to be present , only he would be away . |
| 24 | When Merry blows it in the Shire the revolution against sloth and shabbiness and Saruman- ‘ Sharkey ’ is on : no doubt Tolkien would have liked to be able in his own person to do the same . |
| 25 | We would all have liked to be able to eat normally at meals and not to have to hit each other to be first in the breakfast queue . |
| 26 | He would have liked to be able to confront and examine his own previous self . |
| 27 | Like a Shakespearian monarch he would have liked to be able to send the guilty ones straight to the scaffold , to be despatched on a block still steaming with the blood of the last condemned prisoner . |
| 28 | I should have liked to be able to look forward to seeing him , but he said he did n't know how the evening would turn out . ’ |
| 29 | And why the hell should he have pretended to be dead if he was n't ? ’ |
| 30 | She can not have failed to be aware of the situation as the land reeked of the smells and both water and land were often strikingly coloured . |