Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [prep] [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , in some situations girls may need to strive to be more assertive , while in others boys may need to develop greater sensitivity in their use of language . |
| 2 | But how often does a duck need to peek to be fairly sure it wo n't get caught ? |
| 3 | You must 've had to be very careful then when he was slaughtering the animals if he was a haemo |
| 4 | For example , being kept awake by a sufferer who can not sleep having to be continually watchful of someone who may do dangerous things , and having to cope with continual questioning or aggression may become unbearable . |
| 5 | When he came to the car , Ana had established herself in the back with Mitch and he would have needed to be extremely unpleasant to order them out . |
| 6 | It was generally assumed among the pupils that our teachers , being women , would have preferred to be fully sexual , childbearing beings . |
| 7 | We 'd have had to be pretty stupid not to assume what we did . |
| 8 | He would have had to be as different as T. S. Eliot ; and there 's an end of that speculation ! |
| 9 | Inspector Alan Miller , of North Yorks Police , said : ‘ They would have had to be very determined to breach the wires , ignore warning signs and risk confronting armed guards for the sake of a few rabbits . ’ |
| 10 | It was unfortunate , I thought , that at the same time as I had realised the grandeur of God I had fallen in love with a mortal , and that the two experiences should have proved to be mutually exclusive , leaving me with the sensation that I was being sundered by equal forces . |
| 11 | The appointment could not have proved to be more successful . |
| 12 | A restriction which , whatever the success of the industrial co-operative elsewhere , many in Britain would have judged to be wholly desirable ; for the recent British view had been distorted by what it saw as the examples of the Scottish Daily News , KME , and Meriden . |
| 13 | " By differential reinforcement of responses an individual can be led to make finer and finer distinctions among what originally may have appeared to be very similar stimuli . " |
| 14 | Specifically on geology , Laming has published lists of theses on the UK and its offshore areas , and within Scotland , the Rolfe and Will lists have tried to be as comprehensive as possible . |
| 15 | The barge-dwellers , creatures neither of firm land nor water , would have liked to be more respectable than they were . |
| 16 | If you ask me , The Smiths could have afforded to be more humorless . |
| 17 | If the sonar device is measuring the distance of targets by measuring the duration of silence between the emission of a sound and its returning echo — the method which Rousettus , indeed , seems to be using — the sounds would seem to have to be very brief , staccato pulses . |
| 18 | I , I just did n't stay to ask to be quite honest I was shell shocked . |