Example sentences of "[vb infin] to be [adj] for " 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 | The terms and conditions inserted in this layout will also need to be uniform for each type of bill or related electronic message . |
| 3 | What training , in languages and other skills , do we need to be ready for the single market ? |
| 4 | The survey indicates that sales volumes are up , but they still remain below what retailers would consider to be normal for the time of year . ’ |
| 5 | Syntactic structure does appear to be suitable for semantic purposes , one can develop compositional semantic rules that apply to syntactic structures . |
| 6 | If they do appear to be effective for recognition , this will have consequences for the design of pattern recognisers . |
| 7 | Gardens which have been carefully designed and closely planted may appear to be unsuitable for additional plantings of herbs , but a herbaceous border , for instance , which needs to be re-dug every few years , with some of its incumbents divided or discarded , can well take some herbal plants , to supply flowers and/or architectural quality . |
| 8 | But it is ground which does not appear to be fertile for anything — let alone an attempt to build an alternative to Africa 's elitist and beleaguered educational system . |
| 9 | Activation and CytR regulation in the three promoters containing double mutations were identical with that of the promoter only containing the -65 mutation ( data not shown ) , hence , positions +4 , -1 and -33 do not appear to be important for CytR regulation . |
| 10 | Neurotics may appear to be concerned for others , but this is based on unconscious hostility towards someone , so that their concern that someone may die , or fall very ill unless some particular action of their own is done or not done , really masks an unconscious wish for their death : ‘ … the original wish that the loved person may die is replaced by a fear that he may die ’ . |
| 11 | One of the many unusual facets of Hannah Hauxwell is her reaction to certain situations which would daunt much more apparently sophisticated people and which one would expect to be overwhelming for a simple soul from the back of beyond , such as meeting , on level terms some of the famous and mighty , or appearing in front of milling crowds and even standing up to address them . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't expect to be idle for a minute between now and the fete . ’ |
| 13 | Do you expect to be unfit for work for more than 7 days ? |
| 14 | Come along , Mr Curtis , I think Mrs Sutherland 'd like to be alone for a bit . ’ |
| 15 | The rabbi 's wife had insisted it was her role to attend to their epileptic daughter several times each night ; her husband must sleep to be strong for the community . |
| 16 | I 'd hate to be responsible for organising an event billed as ‘ our last chance to save the Earth ’ . |
| 17 | Gift wrap presents — they will have to be unwrapped for security or customs |
| 18 | I 'd like to put one simple note and I think it 'll have to be simple for him to understand it but I would like to put one simple notion to him and that is that there is great merit in having public services sharing by people from all social classes . |
| 19 | A nation does not have to be affluent for its children to become video junkies . |
| 20 | Before rehearsals started , he got himself in trim by running every day , knowing that he would have to be ultra-fit for each night 's three-hour performance , appearing on stage for almost every minute of it . |
| 21 | The briefcase would have to be able to handle any live gig but would also have to be suitable for rehearsals and recording sessions . |
| 22 | This would have to be convenient for London , where most of the participants lived , and , in view of the unorthodox nature of the enterprise , preferably in private ownership . |
| 23 | You do n't have to be artistic for this kind of work and the stitches used are the basic ones that many of us learned in primary school , chain stitch , lazy daisy stitch and French knots . |
| 24 | When I had got my breath back , I said , ‘ Yes , we can , but it will cost three times as much and the Party will have to be responsible for getting people to come to it . ’ |
| 25 | Aunt M. nags and nags , and Uncle John said outright that he did n't see why they should have to be responsible for me , when Mother was only half-sister to Aunt Millicent . |
| 26 | They will have to be patient for returns . |
| 27 | A new bus garage would then be built on the cleared site and would have to be ready for use by the time the trams in Croydon were abandoned . |
| 28 | They 've got most most times I think you 'll have to be unemployed for six months . |
| 29 | Travelling by horse and camel caravan , as dictated by the terrain , they would have to be self-sufficient for all of their needs as they traversed vast plains and mighty forests , mountain passes and arid deserts , experiencing great extremes of heat and cold . |
| 30 | Mandy , I do n't want to be late for our meeting with Mrs Foster . ’ |