Example sentences of "to [v-ing] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He admits to wanting to be a showman , you know ? |
| 2 | The lonely dark was preferable to staying to be taunted . |
| 3 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the CBI , in Scotland and in the rest of the United Kingdom , is keen to see flexibility in our social standards and would not wish Scotland to be signed up to a social charter restricting the freedom of workers and employers alike , who look forward to continuing to be a magnet for inward investment from Japan and from the rest of the European Community ? |
| 4 | However , these bars are n't always clearly defined , particularly the ones on the caudal peduncle , so it is back to counting to be sure . |
| 5 | What we are suggesting is that such an education does not add up to learning to be independent , to participating in and contributing to one 's own community , either as a child or later as an adult , as the aims of education purport . |
| 6 | But analogizing , as we shall be arguing more fully in a later chapter , is an operation too fundamental to thinking to be escaped in philosophy or anywhere else , at any rate outside logic and mathematics . |
| 7 | Staying on the edge of being a good photographer you felt committed to trying to be there . |
| 8 | Mornings had indeed developed into quite a happy routine of little errands and duties for Aunt Emily , the hens and the sea ; and if she felt now , as quite often she did , an incomprehensible longing for something wilder and freer and more satisfying than this domestic round , she put it down to needing to be in the open air more and gave herself , next morning , a longer spell on the smooth buff sands of the bay . |