Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taylor wants everyone to be sunny side up after the World Cup qualifier to make up for the fact that no English club sides are left in Europe and give everyone — players and fans — a lift . |
| 2 | She wants me to be happy . |
| 3 | In the case of consumer goods , such as a table lamp , if the negligence of the manufacturer causes them to be defective , then the person injured as a result will be entitled to damages . |
| 4 | He wants photographs of them , information , he wants them to be well . |
| 5 | She is also lobbying for relief for nurseries from the uniform business rate , in the same way as educational establishments ; she wants them to be zero-rated for VAT purposes and provided with loans for safety improvements and training . |
| 6 | In the European scheme of things , England has nothing to be ashamed of . |
| 7 | My group has nothing to be ashamed of , but , like everybody else nowadays , we suffer from a general shortage of cash . |
| 8 | She has nothing to be envious of , if only she knew , Belinda thought wearily . |
| 9 | McEniff himself has plenty to be confident about . |
| 10 | So she has plenty to be pleased about — in addition to being the beautiful butt of the TV men 's admiring jokes . |
| 11 | Right so what causes you to be distressed , stressed ? |
| 12 | They are not looking for you to fail — every audition panel wants you to be good . |
| 13 | So it behoves you to be wary when planting . |
| 14 | Thus , when the Law deems something to be O.K. , chances are it stops being much fun . |
| 15 | These two paragraphs are quoted in his book Modern Fantasy by Dr C. N. Manlove , who then goes straight on as usual to spearhead the critical assault and declare : and Dr Manlove goes on to cite a well-known Ubi sunt passage from the Old English poem and to observe that ‘ This is real elegy , for it has something to be elegiac about ’ . |
| 16 | This is because physical science can be superior as a method of investigation and scholarship only if it has something to be superior to . |
| 17 | But one of them wants my daughter to die , and one wants her to be free . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ did use ( or keep ) ’ A person ‘ keeps ’ a vehicle if he causes it to be stationary on a road when not in use . |
| 19 | For example , a conglomerate in receipt of inside information from an issuer of publicly traded securities may find itself in a position where actual compliance with its disclosure obligations to its retail customers ( ie. , those who wish to buy shares ) in accordance with the equitable principle of undivided loyalty causes it to be liable in an action for breach of confidence to its corporate clients , and guilty of tipping in violation of anti-insider dealing laws . |
| 20 | What has he to be sure of now in that quarter ? |
| 21 | The proper reply , which accepts the fact that we may rightly have some suspicion of a view on the ground that its proponent wants it to be true , is that the satisfactions afforded by indeterminist as against determinist claims of one kind and another are far greater . |
| 22 | According to the 1929 Encyclopaedia Britannica , one theory of consciousness holds it to be inherent in every atom of the body . |
| 23 | It behoves us to be sceptical , then , about Victorian genealogical status symbols ; frequently there is an inverse proportion between the degree of pomp and the humble nature of the ancestry . |
| 24 | ‘ Father is afraid I 'll die soon , you see , so he wants us to be married tomorrow morning . |
| 25 | With all Scotland quiet as a flat calm under his hand , he wants us to be quiet too , and let be the Mackinnons and the Maclaines of Lochbuie for a year or three . ’ |
| 26 | He never allows them to be shocked by finding out things before he tells them . |
| 27 | As one farmer put it , ‘ Time allows me to be interested only in what is going to affect me on my farm — making up the numbers is not the answer ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ Because it allows me to be single-minded in my work . ’ |
| 29 | He forces me to be changeable , to act . |
| 30 | Confidence in God allows us to be gentle with others as we no longer struggle to assert our own plans and willpower over them . |