Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm because after all there 's not point in having these gradings and stars and whatever if people do n't a ) know about them and b ) trust them to be independent . |
| 2 | When you listen to their records they 're always a lot slower than you perceive them to be . |
| 3 | The acceptability of legal institutions in the financial marketplace usually depends upon how fair and certain their users perceive them to be . |
| 4 | The land borders on the edge of the green belt , and the proposed development of houses , no matter how luxurious you intend them to be , will do nothing to enhance the area . |
| 5 | Plus ça change : in the 1990s these words ( apart from their dated gender references ) remain as relevant and as enlightening as in the 1970s and at the beginning of the century : the problem of poverty is the condition of the normal man [ and woman ] in normal circumstances , neither better nor worse off than his [ or her ] neighbours , not of those whose failings qualify them to be the text for the moralist , and who are no more common in the manual working-classes than in other sections of the society . |
| 6 | Well er I mean well things like communal ownership advocate them to be reforms |
| 7 | But we want them to be accessible , not stuffy . ’ |
| 8 | They go now with a much greater knowledge of their customers to manufacturers and say : ‘ We want our products to be made like this for us and we want them to be our products . ’ |
| 9 | She wanted him to be someone she could love and idealised the future in her head , but then found herself thinking about that most heartwrenching of adolescent discoveries ; people rarely are what you want them to be and betray you without malice , unaware of the pain they cause . |
| 10 | I want them to be amused . |
| 11 | They want them to be called Zimbabwe Ridgbacks . |
| 12 | Do n't be grumpy or touchy now — you 'll be glad to see them after 26.2 miles and you want them to be happy to see you too . |
| 13 | ‘ To make lips look fuller , the trick is to define them with a brown eyeliner and outline the shape you want them to be and then go for a light coloured lipstick . |
| 14 | Some people try to force their partner to be the person they want them to be . |
| 15 | But they want them to be more explicit , a survey by Channel 4 's Check Out show reveals today . |
| 16 | But his mature convictions were the effect of a long organised retreat from the simple dualities of youthful Marxism — capitalism against socialism , bourgeois against prole — and the first of his books ever to see print , Down and Out in Paris and London ( 1933 ) , had been emphatic that Marxist analysis fails to correspond to observed experience , the gradations insisted on by the kitchen-staff of a Parisian hotel or the destitute of an English doss-house being there because the poor want them to be there and not by compulsion . |
| 17 | We want them to be light and compact , yet robust , stable and reliable ; simple to operate , yet capable of reasonably fine heat control ; economical with fuel , yet able to bring pans to the boil quickly ; and despite all these conflicting demands , they must be safe to use in difficult field conditions . |
| 18 | Second , users want them to be portable , so size and battery life is important . |
| 19 | You have to care for them , which means starting from where they are in life , not where you want them to be , and taking their lives and lack of belief seriously . |
| 20 | They want them to be more responsible , more self-determining , to take matters into their own hands , and yet they oppose the only thing the tenants have of their own — organisation . |
| 21 | These guys therefore must have a facility of ensuring that the price is correct , from an internal control point of view I want them to be involved in certifying that the price is correct . |
| 22 | I want them to be impressed by what they see . |
| 23 | You want them to be independently funded ? ’ |
| 24 | Will society want them to be literate and numerate in the senses we now use the words ? |
| 25 | Sometimes that is difficult because we will implement them and we want them to be fairly applied across the Community . |
| 26 | Magistrates and others who have called for more secure places want them to be used to contain the activities of young offenders who are not currently kept in prison accommodation , like so-called joyriders and repetitive burglars . |
| 27 | In contrast , ‘ this time we can be better prepared … this is a time for doing the thinking , so that we can make things how we want them to be ’ . |
| 28 | So you want them to be called interim fieldwork reports . |
| 29 | Well we we we 'd want the controls on the left and we want them to be split . |
| 30 | We want them to be bailed.A consular official has made regular visits to the jail . |