Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only change I would perhaps make is to increase the lighting level slightly . |
| 2 | Many kind Friends interest themselves in George Green 's behalf , and I find that by this day 's post an application has been made for a specimen of his hand-writing etc. and a hope held out of a situation ( in a Counting house , I believe ) , but if you were willing to take him , and if it could be arranged in other points , he would greatly prefer being in your establishment to any thing else . |
| 3 | The other thing that we ought to perhaps consider is whether you should change the timetable at all Richard to look at jobs that people expect will be taught . |
| 4 | The good prospect ’ he added , ‘ could arise if , as individuals , we felt able to resist the temptation to produce when that production does no more than fill up warehouses and to resist the temptation to chase prices down with what I can only assume is the objective of preserving a small bit of market share ’ . |
| 5 | In an attempt to compensate for this and to represent what I can only assume is a minority interest for your readership , my entry consists of a substantial majority of jazzers . |
| 6 | Well it certainly is but er I 've grown potatoes myself for years and never had any trouble with them boiling into the water but this year I can not get a good potato , all of my usual favourites like Estima which I 've found is a usually good all round potato , it it 's a monkey for boiling into the water and one thing I can only assume is that the weather 's had a lot to do with it , my ground 's been waterlogged most of the season . |
| 7 | ‘ Cosier , do n't you think ? ’ she said coyly , as she slid into a chair nearest the kitchen door and gave him what he could only assume was her standard come-hither look . |
| 8 | Undergraduates of moderate ability do not much like being asked to choose between differing judgements on the same text ; I can imagine them becoming confused and resentful if they were asked to choose between different critical approaches and all their attendant ideological baggage . |
| 9 | I do n't much like being out of door in the rain or the extreme cold or even the extreme heat — although when the weather is right I hugely enjoy walking aimlessly and observing all about me . |
| 10 | I only contacted him because I 'd read the article and did n't much like being used . ’ |
| 11 | The ability to listen whilst another person talks does not merely entail being aware of the words spoken to us . |
| 12 | This is not simple mimicry , which would only entail being the same bright colour as a distasteful species . |
| 13 | What Greg did not greatly like was the tone . |
| 14 | Er er erm and if we can if if they can all use is it |
| 15 | Could better use be made of health board professionals for meeting school staff development needs ? |
| 16 | Though she wanted to run , she forced herself to walk , with what she could only hope was regal grace , past Matthew and out of the confines of that cupboard . |
| 17 | Nor should too much hope be pinned on one month 's statistics . |
| 18 | Greatly as I admire both the man and his work , I consider Max Beerbohm a dangerous influence — just how dangerous one must perhaps have been brought up in England to know . |
| 19 | Although the pins and needles in his legs could perhaps have been from loss of blood . |
| 20 | As a child , this pride type would perhaps have been beaten in order to subject their will to the adult and break their pride , but without success . |
| 21 | The ancient streets could perhaps have been left to enforce their own low driving speeds through their narrowness , their cobbled surfaces and their lack of visibility over anything more than a few metres . |
| 22 | Mama was rehearsing , that was all ; but it should perhaps have been kept for some other time . |
| 23 | It may perhaps have been valid in the past to dichotomize theoretical stances into endogenous ( formulated in terms of what is natural to humans ) and exogenous ( formulated in terms of sociocultural factors ) ( Heelas 1983 ) ; but many biologists today think that there is a built-in capacity for change through learning capable of giving directive impulses for change . |
| 24 | The Nordic states were reluctant to enter into any kind of commitment , but would perhaps have been willing to follow a British lead , while in France and the Low Countries British participation was regarded as an indispensable guarantee of security against both a resurgence of German militarism and the shadowy threat of the Soviet Union . |
| 25 | In particular , plankton evolution could perhaps have been stimulated by a drastic change in ocean current systems consequent upon Pangaea breakup , but the sea-level rise might have been just as significant . |
| 26 | Technically , such receipts , unlike share certificates , have no value as collateral , though a layman could perhaps have been duped . |
| 27 | The first four should perhaps have been Giants , although the number of good female reads is a bit too heavy in April . |
| 28 | To counter these claims he tempers the language slightly : ‘ The article should perhaps have been entitled the ‘ implications ’ rather than the consequences of literacy . ’ |
| 29 | There is also a small late building on a totally different alignment ( almost east-west ) which could perhaps have been a small Christian shrine , erected to counteract pagan influence . |
| 30 | By 1914 the exchanges were filling 3,000 vacancies a day , but these would perhaps have been filled even in their absence . |