Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] be [adv] [adj] that " in BNC.

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1 For such changes to be successful , they would need to be so large that they would undermine price stability in the Community .
2 If you do n't fall into the professional category however , you will need to be very sure that you are going to get a lot of use out of the People disk to justify the cost .
3 So even if other people pay for it , we will have to be pretty convinced that it will be successful .
4 But you would have to be awfully sure that you were destined for the gallows to put to sea in a small boat during a storm .
5 Why did he have to be so careless that he 'd ended up in prison ?
6 We will have to be very sure that we know what we 're talking about when we meet them to persuade them that we need their funds more and we can make better use of them and we hope to raise around half of that twenty five million pounds from them .
7 Look I do n't want to be so famous that I have to write autographs all over the place , and ca n't travel by bus in case I 'm mobbed .
8 I have no doubt that those same consumers , when exercising their choice about what to buy , will want to be absolutely sure that products imported to the United Kingdom have had to undergo precisely the same levels of checks and monitoring as products exported from the United Kingdom .
9 In this respect , it would seem to be more important that family relationships improve , whether or not husband and wife remain together , rather than urging parents to ‘ stick it out for the sake of the children ’ in unhappy marriages .
10 Even so , it does not seem to be entirely appropriate that , as I have heard privately reported , ministers of the crown now ask to be invited to dinner parties with wealthy Arable in order to try to secure contributions to the Conservative cause .
11 Leith could see at once that he did n't seem to be too enamoured that she , by giving in her notice , had just taken away his trump card .
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