Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb base] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the form that I return to is the form of human being , erm , that 's the form that I have and whatever individuates Socrates from Plato erm is not a matter of the form because they have exactly the same form . |
| 2 | I do n't rise sooner , because 't is the worst thing in the world for the complexion ; nat that I pretend to be a beau ; but a man must endeavour to look wholesome , lest he make so nauseous a figure in the side-bax , the ladies should be compelled to turn their eyes upon the play . |
| 3 | ‘ I have to admit that I prefer to be in charge of any given situation . |
| 4 | Not that I mean to be cynical , but I do teach in an inner-city school ( where only Advanced Level pupils have textbooks — and they share — and where practical work involves half-a-dozen to a bunsen ) . |
| 5 | Here is a signature that I know to be genuine , on a document guaranteeing his overdraft of over twenty years ago , signed in my presence . |
| 6 | This does not mean that I like to be led by the nose , but only that I would appreciate a little extra guidance ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't know that I wish to be tossed anywhere as it happens . |
| 8 | That I take to be the situation here . |
| 9 | The thing that I object to is that many old people and the disabled relied on taxis to get them into that area , and I would say that Hackney Carriage vehicles should be allowed in . |
| 10 | What always amazes me when we play scrabble I mean , things that I consider to be slang you know , on the odd time I thought well I 'll try that |
| 11 | It is just that I want to be free . ’ |
| 12 | It 's not that I want to be the ideal woman ; I 'd simply like to be able to walk down a street and not even think about it . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's not that I want to be away from here , ’ Eve said earnestly . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't think I have much else to prove … other than that I want to be the best player in the world . |
| 15 | into the field that I want to be in you know I do n't think it 's possible to just walk straight in unless you 're very lucky . |
| 16 | I 'm not proud , it 's just that I want to be in the right place . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't think , ’ said Melanie , ‘ that I want to be Leda . ’ |
| 18 | I shall say I feel differently towards him , that I want to be his friend and lameduck him in London . |
| 19 | As I I love being a candidate , I love talking to voters , I like being active and doing things and that 's the reason basically that I want to be your Euro candidate , I 'm ready to be a candidate again . |
| 20 | ‘ The point is that I want to be near you . ’ |
| 21 | I 'm gon na do that I want to be free . |
| 22 | I have seen at long last that I need to be free of my beloved mistress and even as I write that word it is hollow for how can I love one who no longer has the least regard for me ? |
| 23 | I see that I need to be your shadow . |
| 24 | This went smoothly and is a great improvement but in order to create the compressed drive and double the hard disk capacity the SuperStor program took my hard disk ( drive C : ) and seemed to create a compressed drive D : it then swaps drive D and drive C so that the compressed drive is now C : The result is that I seem to be locked out of my old drive D in Rom which has one or two useful bits on — like a hardware check program . |
| 25 | I 've had three letters now , one from David , one from you and one from Beeston all assuming that I seem to be dealing with this subject , erm it 's a Beeston commitment |
| 26 | I 'm sure glad I 've got it 's just that I seem to be . |
| 27 | I intended to resign at the A.G.M. due to the fact that I expect to be leaving the London area before the next A.G.M. but since no-one else wanted the job I agreed to remain chairman for as long as I could . |
| 28 | Due to the publication schedule of ‘ Contact ’ I am actually writing this before the AGM , so I ca n't say anything more about it except that I intend to resign at it , due to the fact that I expect to be leaving the London area , so this will be the last time you will hear about London Branch from me . |
| 29 | As much as I hate comparative reviews — I can never really justify deifying one package at the expense of several other perfectly good packages — WSWIN has facilities that I find to be very attractive and useful . |
| 30 | People think if you 're small , you 're there to be downtrodden , and they have a stack of prejudices about all the other things that I happen to be . |