Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't , we , I do n't even know where Penny want 's to be buried . |
| 2 | make sure Keith our want 's to be cremated |
| 3 | We are determined to make it work — the last thing I want is to be a laughing stock among local farmers if I fail . ’ |
| 4 | Richard Nelson , Director of Market Research Services at Campbell Soups All consumers want is to be told what is happening to their food , how safe it is and what is its quality … |
| 5 | The last thing most of these people want is to be given reasons for changing their minds . |
| 6 | If you find that the property you want is to be sold at Auction , remember that a lot of time , effort and fees can be expended prior to an Auction and there is no guarantee that you will be successful in purchasing the property . |
| 7 | ‘ What I want is to be in charge of myself , to decide what I will or will not do . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ All I want is to be able to go out and play with my friends , ’ she says . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's so wonderful — all I want is to be with her and I get terribly possessive . |
| 10 | ‘ He ca n't hold my grandmother 's misguided behaviour against me when all I want is to be part of the family , to know I belong . ’ |
| 11 | What you want is to be able to answer a few sensible questions uniquely identifying you , the trouble is there 's probably a repertoire of only ten of those questions , you 're going to get asked three or four of them , but those questions , your date of birth , your telephone number , the er address of your bank and so on and so forth , if you 're a private detective you can get those , you can have them on a sheet of paper and you can pretend to be whoever you like . |
| 12 | You do n't work for money , the haves conceded , all you want is to be near us in order to become us . |
| 13 | Er the reason want referring because has n't commenced it 's considered er view and the last thing we want is to be in business actually doing is enclosing on St Albans and anything that St Albans does n't actually want . |
| 14 | What we want is to be working here . |
| 15 | ‘ What members really want is to be got going again and not just towed off to a garage . |
| 16 | All I seek is to be judged on my record and the record of this group . |
| 17 | The final series of the Hudson and Halls show is to be screened by the BBC later this year . |
| 18 | We will not normally discuss the technology out of which the architectures that we describe are to be implemented . |
| 19 | A TELECOMMUNICATIONS link is to be established between students in Darlington and their counterparts in France . |
| 20 | As a university member , I think the thing I would most like to have happen is to be accepted as an ordinary person in the place I live and the people I meet with . |
| 21 | You are at the moment , the best thing you get is to be in the top hundred . |
| 22 | The b l and b 2 vibrations are equally symmetric , and an arbitrary choice has to be made , first as to which set is to be labeled b 1 , and secondly as to whether to maintain the same order in mode numbering . |
| 23 | Returning to the sea-urchin embryo , it can be seen that the animal-vegetal differences could be used to establish the boundary regions , that is , which end is to be which . |
| 24 | All I ask is to be left to get on with my work , and enough support to make it possible . |
| 25 | This specifies whether the result of an operation is to be shifted , how any carry is to be dealt with , whether the storing of the result is to be suppressed , and under what conditions a skip is to be executed . |
| 26 | County Councillor , Councillor on my right , I think is to be congratulated on the work he has done with County Highways on our behalf , and has written to District Council recommending refusal . |
| 27 | Our roads are in a mess and anything that will speed up improving that situation I think is to be welcomed . |
| 28 | Okay Now as those of you who have been on a course will know er on a training course one thing I particularly ask you and we all do is to be open minded . |
| 29 | My biggest fantasy I think was to be a sort of assistant , a nurse , holding Boy 's hand while O worked on him . |
| 30 | The other place I 've been to is Thailand , where prostitution is blatantly up-front and hard to avoid . |