Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ann Butler had written to Uncle Nathan in Leeds to say that when Sarah went there to act as bridesmaid to her sister Christiana , she would stay on to be his new housekeeper . |
| 2 | Er at this stage I do n't think so to be honest with you because |
| 3 | I do n't think so to be perfectly honest |
| 4 | Thus , for basic civic rights like not being enslaved or imprisoned without trial , people should need only to be people . |
| 5 | She added , by way of conversation , that she must wait patiently to be relieved of the burden of living . |
| 6 | The only time he can guarantee not to be called out is during his annual leave , of which plenty of notice is necessary . |
| 7 | Business letters do not need always to be impersonal and formal . |
| 8 | Do n't wait here to be made a scapegoat , go , now … quickly ! ’ |
| 9 | Luckily penicillin became available and was found to be highly effective in what we would consider today to be almost homeopathic doses . |
| 10 | Edward , who had probably shrewdly observed that this pretentious lordling , though haughty in manner , was a vacillating and easily manipulated nonentity , did not trouble even to be civil to his puppet or to Scottish laws and traditions . |
| 11 | And she would not meekly wait around to be married to him ! |
| 12 | They were better than this lot will ever know how to be . |
| 13 | You do n't know how to be a person without a family to prop you up . |
| 14 | Men are not so resourceful , they do not know how to be friends and companions to themselves . ’ |
| 15 | People who did not know how to be useful dropped out of Good Neighbour schemes . |
| 16 | It was a generation that had to be brave and now did not know how to be peaceful . |
| 17 | Do n't you know how to be with someone else ? |
| 18 | After those years of hard work , she did n't quite know how to be social and high-spirited and careless of the future like so many other girls of her own age . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't know how to be a hero ! ’ he shouted . |
| 20 | She would not know how to be happy . ’ |
| 21 | She did n't know how to be light . |
| 22 | No one could be sure where lay the Terra Australis Incognita which Ptolemy had postulated , and which Mercator had argued was a necessary balance for a spherical world , without which the whole planet might simply topple over to be lost among the stars . |
| 23 | More recently , of course , Hytner has become the internationally acclaimed director of Miss Saigon , but he claims that he does n't want just to be a director of musicals , or only of anything else for that matter . |
| 24 | It is difficult to say that such a vast group of people has special needs , and indeed many older people may prefer not to be separated out from the rest of the adult population . |
| 25 | They include poor handling and breaking in , anxiety or excitement , resentment of a particular form of work or a rider who bumps up and down on the horse 's back , or , of course , the horse may just simply prefer not to be ridden ! |
| 26 | Only later will they come to learn the shades of grey in which we are both what we would like and what we would prefer not to be . |
| 27 | Er I I would prefer not to be involved in elaborate discussion of the theology of involved . |
| 28 | Madam Deputy Speaker I was gon na give a very illustrative example of what I 'm talking about but perhaps I will allow the house to have that example on another occasion because I actually would prefer not to be er er er prevented from giving you the most vivid story of what I 'm talking about . |
| 29 | Surveys are now showing that many people would prefer not to be treated if continuation of their life means being strapped to a machine . |
| 30 | The ICS , as a body , had never been much taken with political reform , sensing correctly that it set in motion a process whereby they could expect only to be replaced , and both reason and sentiment told them that this would never do . |