Example sentences of "[vb infin] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I did promise to be ready for nine thirty but those blasted animals just wo n't cooperate . " |
| 2 | Teachers should not seek to be involved in every aspect of the school — administrative/clerical , catering and many aspects of the pastoral function should be contracted out to specialist providers . |
| 3 | At no time , either , did Zacco either seek to be alone with him , or utter a word of reproach about his failure with Famagusta . |
| 4 | that in setting and applying our standards , our staff will seek to be open , helpful and polite in explaining our position |
| 5 | Obviously your personal situation will affect the choices you make but a sound principle to follow was laid down by William Morris who wrote ‘ have nothing in your home which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful ’ . |
| 6 | When the Bingham Report recommended a statutory duty for auditors ‘ to report to the Bank any information or opinion which the auditor knows or should reasonably know to be relevant to a bank 's fulfilment of the criteria in Sch 3 of the 1987 [ Banking ] Act ’ ( ie the criteria for being licensed as a bank ) , auditors ' reactions varied from the totally relaxed to the slightly concerned , but no one positively opposed the change . |
| 7 | Well , thanks very much , I had n't realized it had gone , I do n't know to be honest , I bet it 's hiding behind there . |
| 8 | I do n't know to be honest . |
| 9 | I says well I do n't know to be honest , I says I do n't deal with them , but we were talking about Mercury these cross-routing got one of these systems here |
| 10 | I do , I do n't know to be honest . |
| 11 | Oh heck , well I do n't know to be honest with you , something you 'll be able to play games on |
| 12 | René Descartes , who attempted to discover truth by doubting everything he could manage to doubt , described the first principle of his method like this in A Discourse on Method , ‘ The first rule was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such ; that is to say … to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt . ’ |
| 13 | The females had dropped their young and reared them to the point where they could survive to be next year 's prey . |
| 14 | It does n't need to be all , all that it needs t to do is to just demonstrate . |
| 15 | What essential information would need to be available when dealing with an enquiry from a conference organiser ? |
| 16 | This would mean that a supply of dollar bills would need to be available at UK banks . |
| 17 | And then when we 've done that , I shall need to be undisturbed in the study . |
| 18 | The Consortium would need to be convinced the Carmel Woods IDO was sufficiently important to merit further action . |
| 19 | Salespeople must be able to work and communicate with people in a variety of positions and be prepared to tailor their selling approaches to satisfy individual needs , e.g. specifiers will need to be convinced of the technical merits of the product , production people will want to be assured of guaranteed deliveries and buyers will be looking for value for money . |
| 20 | Chemical energy however is particularly easy to waste , through misuse or overuse , so levels of skill and control may need to be higher . |
| 21 | There would also need to be higher rates of tax built on top of this sum . |
| 22 | It does n't need to be strong wind to ruin the sound on a shot , the lightest of breezes can sound like a Force 8 gale in spite of the foam wind-shield with which the microphone is no doubt adorned . |
| 23 | If , like me , you tend to sit on mountains of paper , and rely on your memory to root out a reference , then you will need to be strong and discipline yourself to filing items away as soon as you have finished with them , either in folders or binders or in cabinet or box file , depending on the amount of space you have available . |
| 24 | He derives much satisfaction from introducing someone to the sport and says : ‘ You do n't need to be strong to play it . |
| 25 | The selectivity may not need to be absolute — for example , if the promoter is specifically activated in breast epithelial tissue it may be possible to produce a ‘ genetic mastectomy , ’ effectively destroying all normal as well as malignant breast cells . |
| 26 | For this the school has twin responsibilities for the presentation of both languages ; it would need to be bilingual itself . |
| 27 | " If you 're going to be one of my young reporters , you 'll need to be curious . |
| 28 | Any of these may need to be present or indicated when students process discourse or are asked to produce it . |
| 29 | A patio does n't need to be grand to be attractive |
| 30 | The maximum depth of the trench will be at the point where it enters the main sewer ; otherwise the trenches will need to be deep enough to allow for a fall of the required gradient away from the house . |