Example sentences of "[adv] you [modal v] [vb infin] to [be] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ There are some parts of London which are necessary and others which are contingent ’ is quite a good joke , though perhaps you would have to be a philosopher as well as a Londoner to see the point of it .
2 So you 'll have to be especially good , Sundays .
3 So you 'd like to be put down on the ballot to be approved do you ?
4 You may need to remain nearby in case they do slip , but this can prevent some people from functioning so you will have to be sensitive to their feelings .
5 So you will need to be selective in what you decide to consult .
6 Note , too , that if you write ironically you may seem to be satirising the question , or the process of analytical writing about literature more generally .
7 But really you must try to be a little consistent .
8 You see yo really you 'd need to be you 'd need to be only need to be paying back about four grand you see , though ?
9 You know you might have a gene which says well you 'll grow to be six foot , but if you 're not fed properly
10 Well you 'll have to be here for the surveyor
11 ‘ Or maybe you 'd prefer to be invigorated by another stalemate argument with me on the subject . ’
12 really well you know I always think sometimes you 'd like to be sort of be crazy would n't you ?
13 Whether you climb , walk , run , or just stroll from your car for a picnic , then you 'll expect to be able to do so free of problems ; not to be shouted at abusively or shot at ( it still happens occasionally ! ) ; not to be spurned from the hills by aggressive signs erected by indignant landowners , or find endless and unyielding deer fences encircling your 232nd Munro ; not to discover destruction from in appropriate developments over a once beautiful area .
14 Then you 'll have to be patient , wo n't you ; wait till he gets in touch with you .
15 Then you 'll have to be careful
16 But remember that dreams and ambitions change as you get older , by his forties your high-flier may have turned into a slippers and spaniel man , and who knows , by then you may want to be PM .
17 If , like me , you tend to sit on mountains of paper , and rely on your memory to root out a reference , then you will need to be strong and discipline yourself to filing items away as soon as you have finished with them , either in folders or binders or in cabinet or box file , depending on the amount of space you have available .
18 The difference being , that if it 's a saucepan then obviously a saucepan you lift it with one hand and if it 's full of hot water or something then you 'd have to be careful .
19 At least you would have to be a doctor to say so , and not a politician or an academic . )
20 This makes you look alert , as indeed you will have to be in order not to fall off !
21 This is a four-month period when you will need to be incisive and single-minded .
22 I believe , on the contrary , that in deciding where you would like to be , as opposed to where you are probably going to end up , you need a great deal of discussion and a great deal of development of new thinking and new processes .
23 Now , er , I do n't know er why you might want to be unlisted , ex-directory , not in the book .
24 Simply answer our question by ticking the appropriate box and then tell us in no more than 12 words why you would like to be a Clairol winner .
25 This is satisfactory enough , though it is often necessary to perch the tripod on top of a platform or a solid table , as otherwise you will have to be something of a contortionist when looking at an object high in the sky ( incidentally , the same is true of a small refracting telescope ) .
26 Sometimes , just knowing you 've got something else you can turn to is all you need cos you do n't need
27 Ideally you should aim to be number one which is achieved by mauling with other boxers — hopefully in the ring .
28 Certainly you would have to be in pretty desperate case to dismiss the eloquent Michelozzo figures on the cenotaph frieze in the Duomo as ‘ wriggling in lines like leeches in a bottle ’ .
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