Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I do not need is to be awoken at 4 a.m. in the depths of winter , forced from my bed and summoned to gawp at an empty space where once a football stand stood . |
| 2 | it 's like writing an essay , you 've got to try and get as mi many things in as you would do when you if you were writing a full essay but instead of writing a paragraph on each thing you write a sentence on each thing try and cover as many bases , then , that 's how you how you get very good marks , it 's not , they are not trying to test your erm your deep knowledge about any one thing in these short answers they are testing the broad , broad venture of your , of your knowledge , alright , so what you want to try and do is to is a blunderbuss approach when you ans you answer these , these questions . |
| 3 | What you can expect is to be asked to justify your approach to nursing problems . |
| 4 | ‘ What I 'd really like is to be a ploughshare . |
| 5 | I 've had my health put right so now all I 'd like is to be rich and famous . |
| 6 | One hundred and sixty Old Boys a very substantial proportion had volunteered before conscription was introduced , and many more thereafter , and the names of the fifty-two who did not return were to be recorded on the School 's War Memorial . |
| 7 | What a relief it would have been to be able to dismiss it all as a Homes and Gardens photo-call , carefully stage-managed to make visitors drop dead . |
| 8 | Who do you think is to be the most hurt by such a scandal ? |
| 9 | I hope that as chairman of ICI the contribution that I can make is to be looked upon by people on all levels as someone whose experience they can call on at any time . |
| 10 | If more than one fountain is desired , a surface pump is sensible and , of course when larger volumes of water than submersible pumps can easily handle are to be moved , then they become a necessity . |
| 11 | But final-stage rockets had misfired before , and at a time when people were whispering about a change of prime Minister and the shake-out that would bring , the very last thing Sladen must want was to be caught up in a brawl between Number 10 , the Foreign Office , Defence and the secret services . |
| 12 | The problems that this could cause were to be demonstrated all too vividly in 1968 . |
| 13 | What does he say is to be done about it ? |
| 14 | And he goes on : ‘ No one is expecting to make big money — all players would ask is to be treated reasonably in line with what they achieve . ’ |