Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [adv] [vb -s] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are only so many things you can sell to someone who merely requires to be kept warm and dry as they walk up a hill . |
| 2 | When these result in avoidable death , and they do , then it could be anyone who just happens to be there — employees , consumers , ordinary citizens . |
| 3 | Later I mention this encounter to an old friend who just happens to be a former service supervisor for the phone company . |
| 4 | Meanwhile Sir Clifford has engaged a nurse , Mrs Bolton … who just happens to be the village gossip . |
| 5 | I thought , ‘ Here is this man who just begs to be loved , and who just wants to be a handsome , gorgeous leading man , ’ but who really was not . |
| 6 | I thought , ‘ Here is this man who just begs to be loved , and who just wants to be a handsome , gorgeous leading man , ’ but who really was not . |
| 7 | And time out : Another blow for the girl who just wants to be one of the boys . |
| 8 | THEY say every picture tells a story … and these pictures show a woman who just wants to be alone . |
| 9 | The means of escaping poverty are not worth pursuing by a woman who genuinely wishes to be happy . |
| 10 | Pond snail in monteray pine David Morgan ( or Ned ) is one of the rate sorts of person who always appears to be happy and cheerful , making him the natural leader of the Devon branch of the British Woodcarvers Association . |
| 11 | Some have described her as a 1920s version of much-admired Kate Adie , who always appears to be in the thick of things wherever the action is ! |
| 12 | What about Gunter Schabowski , First Secretary of The East Berlin Party , who always seems to be in Moscow ? |
| 13 | Its civilised debates introduced topics largely ignored elsewhere and calmed down even the kind of politician who always seems to be addressing a public meeting . |
| 14 | First , a set of orchestral works all conducted by George Prêtre who always seems to be at his best in Poulenc 's music . |
| 15 | New York cabbies are notorious for complaining but Danny , an old friend , who always seems to be around when I am ready to leave The Summit Hotel , assures me that business in one of the world 's busiest cities is worse than he had known it in more than 20 years . |
| 16 | A Concorde tug was the brainchild of PC Bob Gilbert based at Maidstone , Kent who also happens to be a member of the Vulcan Association . |
| 17 | This kind of puzzle is not merely of interest to intellectuals who study what is called game theory , an area of mathematics advanced by John von Neumann , who also happens to be the father of the stored program computer . |
| 18 | Bank Assistants can not afford to live on their current salaries and , as has been pointed out , a Bank assistant who also happens to be a bread winner would be better off on the Dole ! |
| 19 | ‘ Next to the Devil you have no more bitter , more poisonous , more vehement an enemy than a real Jew who earnestly desires to be a Jew . ’ |
| 20 | In another BT study , Away From Base , psychologist Dr Guy Fielding identifies four distinct travelling personalities — the ‘ bee ’ who works hard when travelling but gets impatient if the journey takes too long ; the ‘ chameleon ’ who finds it easy to sit back and relax despite travel disruptions ; the reliable ‘ beaver ’ who always gets the job done but prefers to be in constant contact when on the move ; and the independent ‘ cat ’ who really prefers to be at home and likes to ‘ take his own world with him ’ when travelling . |
| 21 | Meryl Streep is wonderfully comic as an actress who really wants to be a singer , while Shirley Maclaine shows her versatility and talent as she defiantly crashes through ‘ I 'm Still Here ’ . |
| 22 | The courses are designed for anyone in the voluntary sector who is unsure how the changes will affect them or who simply wants to be better informed . |
| 23 | In La Route des Flandres , the fluctuations between first and third person mean that it is not possible to contend that the novel 's discourse is organized entirely around the consciousness of the central character Georges , who otherwise seems to be re-creating his experiences in the course of a night in bed with the widow of his commanding officer , some time after the wartime conflict . |
| 24 | A software engineer who freely admits to being plump and has tried every diet in the book claims to have invented a programme that 's guaranteed to keep those extra pounds off . |
| 25 | A transsexual is somebody who actually wants to be the other totally … . |