Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hard experience has taught me to be selective in my procrastination . |
| 2 | In the Middle Ages , when the French adjudged them to be alien , difficult and heathen , they were held to have descended from Scotsmen transported to Spain by Julius Caesar . |
| 3 | ‘ You would n't want me to be vain . |
| 4 | ‘ Do you want me to be nice or honest ? ’ |
| 5 | I knew he would n't want me to be pushy and , hard though it was , I decided to wait until the end of the week and then invite him round for dinner . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you want me to be married ? ’ |
| 7 | You do want me to be precise about what I tell you ? ’ |
| 8 | But EMAP said yesterday that by cutting overheads , it expected them to be profitable this year . |
| 9 | She expected them to be ready , mounted , properly turned out and willing . |
| 10 | After the heavy rains of the past days I expected them to be full , and they were , a lot fuller than when I had seen them the year before . |
| 11 | So perhaps we should be thinking more about political education and perhaps we should be thinking more about encouraging them to be non-conformist in the sense that they are prepared to ask questions , to challenge and not to accept glib answers that teachers give out willy nilly … |
| 12 | I shall mention some of the issues to which the hon. Member for Stamford and Spalding ( Mr. Davies ) referred , although there seemed to be a lack of logic in his remarks because he cheered the Government on while encouraging them to be careful . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We do not want them to be upset , so we keep them away from funerals , or from saying goodbye , face to face , to their relatives and friends . |
| 15 | She knew that her grown-ups were frightened and she did not want them to be frightened , but she also knew that Fenna was a mightier protection than all their loving care could ever be . |
| 16 | Would you want them to be able to express their emotions more intensely and precisely , able to show how they feel ? |
| 17 | Such cases are rare , though the Queen would probably prefer them to be nonexistent . |
| 18 | When planning internal verification , centres must bear in mind that staff carrying out the role must have the experience and background to enable them to be effective . |
| 19 | I 'm all in favour of early retirement , but actually acknowledging then , the people who retire , have that contribution , and I think we ought to be developing a way of our society to ensure that they 're able to live reasonably comfortably , and so that the pension should actually be a living wage , to enable them to be free , to make those sort of contributions . |
| 20 | Some of the larger firms of surveyors produce property indices , but the statistical sample is probably too small to enable them to be reliable . |
| 21 | alcoholic they abilitating teaching them to , to live again and , and getting into the community , helping them to shop and you know helping them to be self sufficient . |
| 22 | It 'll establish efficient links between North Oxfordshire 's farmers and the police helping them to be quick off the mark if anything dubious is noticed . |
| 23 | Tests on the items at the Oxford research laboratory for art and archaeology revealed them to be modern . |
| 24 | Although the countries of the European Free Trade Association had worked out trade arrangements with the Community , recent decisions of the European Court ruled them to be incompatible with the treaty of Rome . |
| 25 | You see they 've nothing to be frightened of any more . |
| 26 | Also , you may want someone to be able to see base figures and a final result , but not the devious manipulations you have performed on the route twixt the two . |
| 27 | They do not want a levy : they want everyone to be exempt . |
| 28 | I want them to be impressed by what they see . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But we want them to be accessible , not stuffy . ’ |