Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It was a tiny lizard but not er not that you would want to hit with a sweeping brush . |
| 2 | Most had nothing at all to say about it and those that did comment relied to a large extent on a discourse and terminology borrowed from the ‘ agenda setting nexus ’ of mainstream criticism . |
| 3 | Here I would suggest that if the beginner does not want to invest in a full set , he should settle for the 3 , 5 , 7 and 9-irons , sand wedge , plus a 3 and a 5-wood . |
| 4 | But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound . |
| 5 | I do not want to go on a dictionary-chasing exercise , laying down one word only to find that the marketing men have circumvented it by finding another word . |
| 6 | I do n't want to go to a new school . |
| 7 | ‘ No disrespect to the rest — but I would n't want to go to a smaller club , however ambitious . |
| 8 | In approaching family work in this way a social worker may want to arrange for a multidisciplinary assessment , calling on advice from the health care team . |
| 9 | she wo n't , she 's , she 's just on the , oh I do n't want to work in a boring office we 've , we 've tried to say not , you do n't have to work , it 's an in , it 's an in to what you want |
| 10 | After two years in the London office of Heidrick and Struggles , Kidd felt that he would prefer to work for a British firm and employ the systems he had designed . |
| 11 | You might also prefer to work to a looser tension for this type of all over cable pattern . |
| 12 | Frankly , neither looked like the kind of man that a woman would want to meet in a dark street … or even darker car park . |
| 13 | Do you want to know about a spectacular firework display ? |
| 14 | I mean , who in their right mind would want to jump from a great height with elastic tied round their ankles ? |
| 15 | ‘ Do you want to come to a Finnish film festival at the ICA tomorrow ? ’ asks Pamela . |
| 16 | Women with severe emotional problems may need counselling on a long-term basis . |
| 17 | In bibliographic databases , it is important to consider whether pupils will want or need to search for a particular author , a particular location or a particular format such as " book " or " video " . |
| 18 | As their mother lies dozing , one of them will suddenly pounce on the black tassel at the end of her twitching tail , using the same kind of actions it will need to pounce on a small prey animal in years to come . |
| 19 | ( c ) On what chart does the rhumb line appear as a straight line ? |
| 20 | For some specialised yarns , say those with knops , or the hairy yarns , you will probably need to work at a looser tension for the cables to show but this is not to their disadvantage since the cables , loosely worked , frequently add to the richness of the finished look . |
| 21 | If only the most dependent and disturbed patients are admitted to hospital care , then local authority care will need to provide for a wide range of elderly people including many with dementia , and some with milder behaviour problems . |
| 22 | But I refuse to be tempted : I really have no literary ambition at all ; I do n't need to conform to a prevailing stereotype in the search for distinguished and illustrious positions . |
| 23 | In a workshop session which the BA might consider restaging as a full day seminar , Peter Mouncey of the AA , Leslie Henry of Book Marketing Ltd and Sue Morris of W H Smith tackled ‘ Targeting the book market — the role of research ’ from three different though complementary angles . |
| 24 | However , we do not need to embark upon a lengthy discussion of differences between these concepts as such differences will be explained as they bear upon our concern with power in public sector organisations ( see Connolly , 1974 , for treatment of these conceptual issues ) . |
| 25 | We 'll need to put in a new suite . ’ |
| 26 | Clearly there is considerable travel within the UK but we would expect you to spend one or two days a week in our offices so you would need to live within a 100 mile radius of Bracknell . |
| 27 | Announcing the initiative , Environment Secretary John Gummer warned that if the industry can not satisfy the government that they are moving towards that objective , then " we will need to move towards a legislative approach " . |
| 28 | To a certain extent the pamphlet states the obvious , but it does at least focus thinking in a formal manner to the issue of 1992 . |
| 29 | Given the availability of very fast spectroscopic techniques , using either photographic recording or pulsed lasers , we can consider working with a non-flowing sample and simply recording a spectrum at some interval after sudden generation of the species , but before its decay is complete . |
| 30 | However we also made it clear that as one part of Labour 's wider democratic agenda , that we were sympathetic to looking at a plurality of electoral systems and that this might include legislating for a regional list system of proportional representation for future European elections . |