Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [verb] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The quantities of waste water are often great , so that a treatment plant designed to cope adequately with them may have to be large and therefore expensive to install . |
| 2 | She had suggested that one of them should pretend to be ill , shout for help and then , when one of their captors responded , the others should attack him . |
| 3 | They may need to be bulky and unsightly in large tanks . |
| 4 | ( also known as education social worker ) Education welfare officers liaise with Social Services Departments and are responsible for the general well-being of school children , not only ensuring that they attend school regularly but also dealing with grants , allowances and services which they may need to be able to attend ( e.g. clothing , transport , free school meals ) . |
| 5 | The moral decline of the West cries out for a return to the morals of protestant Christianity which will tell the nation what they must do to be strong once more . |
| 6 | Aunt M. nags and nags , and Uncle John said outright that he did n't see why they should have to be responsible for me , when Mother was only half-sister to Aunt Millicent . |
| 7 | ‘ They 'll need to be ploughed and planted with a root crop for the first year . |
| 8 | Well they 'll have to be equal prizes would n't they ? |
| 9 | ‘ And they 'll be slowed down because they 'll have to be discreet . |
| 10 | If the players really impress you with their heckling and barracking of the puppets ( and they 'll have to be witty as well as abusive ) , the puppets will eventually break off their performance , perhaps concluding with an important tip about a major location within the dungeons ( if the players did exceptionally well ) . |
| 11 | Each client 's portfolio is tailor-made to avoid investing in companies they might consider to be unethical . |
| 12 | And , when , finally , she did emerge from her curtain cubicle to face the other girls , they took it very well , for they could afford to be charitable , and they were secretly glad that Clara 's style was cramped , for without some handicap she would have been a more serious threat . |
| 13 | If they could learn to be civil to each other , maybe even friendly , it would make it very much easier to walk away from him when this was all over . |
| 14 | They 'd want to be sure the items had been reported stolen and the person who owns this suitcase for example , would need to know what was written on the other side . |
| 15 | So they 'd seem to be ideal for anyone wishing to avoid police cameras . |
| 16 | I suppose everyone had the feeling sometime or other that they 'd like to be free , walk out , wander over the earth . |
| 17 | Well I 'd think they 'd have to be good , they er er at Bolton at the General Election , they put Bolton Southeast through a lot of Bolton West and Northeast but |
| 18 | She thought of the local cemetery : if they all woke up , they 'd come round demanding their houses back ; they 'd have to be sheltered and fed and appeased with promises . |
| 19 | Well I think for them to be in , in management , top management positions a lot of them they 'd have to be pretty sensing and thinking before well I do I mean I think there 's |
| 20 | They used to have to be brave , now they just have to hang around waiting for someone to press a button . |
| 21 | Of the predators , fruit pigeons were abundant on figs whose seeds are inviable thereafter , but they avoided , as in the Trinidad example , the large fruits , such as those of Dysoxylum ( Meliaceae ) , which they would appear to be able to deal with ( these fruits are dispersed by hornbills ) . |
| 22 | Quite apart from the fact that they would appear to be unorthodox and a distortion at its best of Christian theology , I believe it must be said of all these suggestions that , if what is intended is that they should give an equal place to women or to the ‘ feminine ’ within the Christian religion , they fail . |
| 23 | Claiming responsibility for the attacks , the UFF labelled Castle Street as ‘ a Republican taxi rank ’ , and warned the black taxis there they would continue to be legitimate targets . |
| 24 | Gaidar ( as Deputy Premier in charge of economic reform — see below for his transfer to the Finance Ministry ) pledged government help for the farmers , promising that they would continue to be eligible for preferential loans , and that a draft bill to release farmers ' sons from military service was in preparation . |
| 25 | Kathryn will ask Alex Yeats and Rachel Maybank if they would like to be involved in doing some work on redundancy . |
| 26 | Workers indicated that they would like to be able to take their holidays without being obliged to find a replacement and so have to do double duty before or after their holiday . |
| 27 | They would like to be able to be caring within limits , and without the fear that they might get overwhelmed or taken for a ride . |
| 28 | Secondly , they would need to be aware of the interactional domain ( e.g. their scope for movement , and the properties of objects around them ) , and be constantly updating this as it was affected by their actions . |
| 29 | Apparent oppositions , they felt , should not only be tolerated but gloried in : ultimately they would prove to be resolvable in a wider harmony . |
| 30 | There was also the prospect of more poetry although " They would have to be new poems in a new idiom " . |