Example sentences of "you [vb mod] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chances are that during the first eight or nine years you may appear to be treading water in the process of proving yourself . |
| 2 | At a certain point you may appear to be back where you were before but you can not quite be sure . |
| 3 | But remember that dreams and ambitions change as you get older , by his forties your high-flier may have turned into a slippers and spaniel man , and who knows , by then you may want to be PM . |
| 4 | You may want to be sure a certain heirloom — perhaps worth little financially — will be passed on to a particular person . |
| 5 | Claudia , you may want to be checkin' yer motor every minute or so . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , my thought for today is : " If you want to understand Greece under the Romans , read Polybius and whatever you may believe to be Posidonius ; if you want to understand Rome ruling Greece , read Plautus , Cato — and Mommsen . " |
| 7 | You may need to be referred for specialist advice and treatment . |
| 8 | When I faltered as the realization hit me that it was n't Mum who 'd neglected me , but I who 'd neglected Mum , Pyke said gently , ‘ I think you may like to be in my next production . ’ |
| 9 | Putting names to faces : You may wish to be able to look at someone and think instantly of his name because it makes social life so much easier ; or you may wish to improve your chances of impressing a business acquaintance ( and possibly making a deal as a result ) . |
| 10 | For , you may have reserved ground for burial , or you may wish to be cremated , or to have a very simple funeral . |
| 11 | But you asked me to comment on potential weaknesses , and this is one area which you may consider to be worthy of some serious attention . |
| 12 | Once you have identified the points that are going to be crucial in your particular job , you may have to be persuasive if you want improved safeguards built into your agreement . |
| 13 | You may have to be firm at times during these early days , especially at night . |
| 14 | You may have to be careful . |
| 15 | You may ask to be referred to a chiropractor by your GP , or arrange a consultation on your own initiative . |
| 16 | Note , too , that if you write ironically you may seem to be satirising the question , or the process of analytical writing about literature more generally . |
| 17 | ‘ Dear God , we pray that as well as suffering whatever part of the general physical unpleasantness involved in the Iran-Iraq war you may judge to be rightly his , you can find a spare area in his suffering , er , anti-create , for Mr R. Khomeini , late of Tehran and Qom , to experience at least some of the , umm , despair and continual worry currently being undergone by the novelist Mr S Rushdie , of Bombay and London , heathen and smart-alec though he may well be . |
| 18 | You must learn to be aware not only of the degrees of concentration that are possible ( compare , for instance , your attention to the gripping climax of a movie with your first glances at the pages of the morning newspaper ) but also of the possibility of improving your own levels of concentration . |
| 19 | ‘ You must have to be pretty sick to see a shrink . ’ |
| 20 | But really you must try to be a little consistent . |
| 21 | Whether you be a district sales executive , a vice-president finance or an operations manager , you must strive to be the best in your chosen area . |
| 22 | This tends to be skewed towards the favoured end and you should aim to be at the front of the bulge . |
| 23 | You should aim to be using video in the classroom as easily as you use the audiocassette recorder or the Overhead Projector . |
| 24 | Ideally you should aim to be number one which is achieved by mauling with other boxers — hopefully in the ring . |
| 25 | ‘ Now who you should speak to is … ’ |
| 26 | Causing grievous bodily harm to someone now you might say that 's a very serious offence which you should expect to be prosecuted . |
| 27 | You should aspire to being a specialist in the central nervous systems of business , which is what its accounts should depict . |
| 28 | You should plan to be at your FREELINK pick-up point not later than 15 minutes before scheduled departure . |
| 29 | Rarely musing : What you should try to be . |
| 30 | If job security is what you seek , then besides setting your agreement down in black and white , you should strive to be well organised , willing to discuss your grievances rather than bottling them up and prepared to react flexibly if circumstances change . |