Example sentences of "[verb] to be careful " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And , as Amanda Blore said , I shall not need to be careful any more . ’ |
| 2 | She 'd need to be careful . |
| 3 | In seeking to be innovative and adventurous , church musicians will need to be careful not to abandon the traditional repertoire or to relegate it to second place . |
| 4 | Administrators of services do need to be careful not to isolate recipients too much . |
| 5 | In presenting ideas of the school or movement , however , you will need to be careful about distinguishing your own words from your paraphrase of the positions you are representing . |
| 6 | We all promised to be careful . |
| 7 | At this point Callinicos has to be careful : it is one thing to dismiss the claims of a rootless postmodernism , wandering naked except for its designer trainers across the face of a barren late capitalism . |
| 8 | In ways such as this one has to be careful in using coin evidence , but , allowing for these and similar qualifications , it can still be extremely useful . |
| 9 | Actually some groups in current Western society wear what could almost be termed a uniform , in that it serves to give them a distinct identity , for example skinheads , hippies , and the tinted , spiked hair brigade ; in fact these non-verbal cues can influence interaction to such an extent that one has to be careful to avoid stereotyping , sometimes quite erroneously . |
| 10 | But one has to be careful , a piece of derelict land can be like a magnet in attracting further dereliction . |
| 11 | In doing so , the counsellor has to be careful not to be beguiled into believing the more comfortable initial reactions that many older people might present . |
| 12 | He has to be careful to judge the pressure properly otherwise the whole thing could quite easily go up . |
| 13 | It does seem that the social profile of the bridegrooms of our " compesses " displays several significant differences from that of their fathers , though one has to be careful about interpreting them . |
| 14 | Of course , one has to be careful in this context to recognise that many of the infractions I 'm referring to are not necessarily offences AGAINST others — but represent errors of performance , imperfections which reflect badly on the offender — so that one undertakes remedial work , NOT for the purpose of making amends but to re-draw the picture of oneself so that it corresponds more closely to the one which one would like to project to the world at large . |
| 15 | This I now of course understand , that everyone has to be careful of any drug smugglers . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm sorry , but one has to be careful about opening the door at night . ’ |
| 17 | But he has to be careful not to be the black sheep of the family . |
| 18 | And I said , Derek has to be careful , because you do n't know when you |
| 19 | ‘ You want to be careful with those , ’ the Hare-woman said . |
| 20 | You want to be careful what you say . ’ |
| 21 | " Ah yes , " he said , " you want to be careful of that one . |
| 22 | ‘ You want to be careful what you say , ’ Angelica warned her . |
| 23 | ‘ You want to be careful , ’ Jenna said seriously . |
| 24 | I can also think of another example of a house and erm I want to be careful here because my they 're friends , who are also very sensitive about this , but they 've had their house refurbished in the middle of Oxford . |
| 25 | ‘ I thought I might have hurt you — God knows I tried to be careful , but you seem to have this knack of wiping out twenty-five years of control and finesse with a single touch . ’ |
| 26 | She wants to be careful if the Japs do n't come to Pearl Harbour again . |
| 27 | It is just that one needs to be careful to interpret the segments according to the product strategy being employed . |
| 28 | I got to remember to be careful with the fire . |
| 29 | She said apologetically " Well , he has had to be careful so long , watching every tiny little thing he does , I suppose … " |
| 30 | Where Aldus have had to be careful is in avoiding building-in power features which would , for the average user , totally unbalance the product . |