Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do all plasterboards secretly want to be a FERMACELL gypsum-fibreboard ? |
| 2 | By the textuality of history , I mean to suggest , firstly , that we can have no access to a full and authentic past , a lived material existence , unmediated by the surviving textual traces of the society in question — traces whose survival we can not assume to be merely contingent but must rather presume to be at least partially consequent upon complex and subtle social processes of preservation and effacement ; and secondly , that those textual traces are themselves subject to subsequent textual mediations when they are construed as the ‘ documents ’ upon which historians ground their own texts , called histories . |
| 3 | The dawg also takes much longer to construct , but would be ideal for a dedicated application on perhaps a PC where memory must be kept to a minimum and the structure would rarely need to be re-built . |
| 4 | If a detector is well-used , the wires and/or terminals will eventually need to be replaced . |
| 5 | A receiving agent will eventually need to be appointed ( either to receive funds if the transaction is raising funds or to pay funds in an offer ) . |
| 6 | She is holiday in Gers , a very exclusive part of France , but would much prefer to be going to Tobago . |
| 7 | During the next fortnight , she divided her attentions equally between him and Dunbar , but , she whispered to Harry one evening in the back of the Bentley , she would much prefer to be with him and she was being nice to Pogo only because she did n't want to hurt his feelings . |
| 8 | ‘ I want to stay out here , that 's all , and I would much prefer to be alone . ’ |
| 9 | I do so want to be pure in body and mind . |
| 10 | ‘ It caters for people who do n't necessarily want to be Cher . ’ |
| 11 | The details of it all were a little mundane to him and he did not necessarily want to be implicated in them . |
| 12 | But I could only attain to be thrilled and enchanted , as by the sound of a strain of music dying away . |
| 13 | I do n't much want to be a charge on charity if I can avoid it . " |
| 14 | ’ I do n't much want to be at home on my own . |
| 15 | There is a question of powerlessness , on the other hand there is the question that , you know , even if you 've got power do you constantly want to be having to police your own bodily boundaries , as it were , and I do n't think it is right to ask women to be doing that . |
| 16 | Donors will obviously need to be sure that environmental aid is administered efficiently and spent according to agreed priorities . |
| 17 | The young men and women who were suitable for this important work would obviously need to be educated to a level above that of their prospective students . |
| 18 | The police have n't been able to trace her and we shall have to arrange an inquest — and of course the funeral , which she will naturally need to be concerned with . ’ |
| 19 | Those who seek to do so need to be guided by sound liturgical principles , such as those found in the Liturgical Commission 's Patterns for Worship ( Church House Publishing , 1989 ) . |
| 20 | While cleaning staff are busy working on one floor , they may suddenly need to be directed to another room . |
| 21 | That operation as I understand it is certainly either available on the National Health or er likely to be available on the national health I have not understood that it is the sort of operation which will for any reason suddenly need to be done and I bear in mind that the plaintiff has had already an operation on his hip done on the National Health , it seems to me on the probabilities that there is a very strong probability that that operation will be done on the National Health and not done privately and for that reason it does not seem to me right to include any sum in relation to that in the damages . |
| 22 | you know you should only need to be told once Christopher . |
| 23 | It can only appeal to be welcomed to the Friend 's breast ( 110 ) , to seek ‘ pity ’ for its harmful deeds ( 111 ) . |
| 24 | Nicky 's conversion to Christianity shows that we do n't necessarily need to be clever and learned to find God — religion is not like finding out about astronomy or physics . |
| 25 | Such contacts are likely to be discouraged if not banned by the system and will necessarily need to be handled with the utmost discretion . |
| 26 | Similarly , the existence of technology-trading networks indicates that R&D and production do not necessarily need to be integrated under one roof to ensure that new products are efficiently produced ( although this is often a sensible course to follow ) . |
| 27 | They do need support , they do need often 24 hour attention , but they do not necessarily need to be in hospital . |
| 28 | Those warrants do not necessarily need to be served by the police . |
| 29 | Potential carers will naturally expect to be thoroughly vetted and would be required to undertake an eight-week training course before being entrusted with the care of a child , which could take anything up to six months . |
| 30 | There she found herself ensconced in a huge grey suede and chrome armchair , clutching a hefty measure of Scotch , and staring blankly around at what she could only assume to be the ‘ minimalist ’ style of interior decoration . |