Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't want to lose the scrum as part of our game or just to be a means of restarting play ’ , concluded Spotswood . |
| 2 | I greeted the first man to approach the car in my broken French and to my surprise , he asked if I would prefer to continue the conversation in English . |
| 3 | None of the councillors on the Appeal Committee would want to attend an appeal on Christmas Eve . |
| 4 | ‘ Charles has at times given the impression that he would prefer to renounce the throne in favour of his son . |
| 5 | I had already run three miles , and my boots were too heavy for sprinting — besides I did not want to catch the gang in front . |
| 6 | Folly did n't want to encourage the sort of speculation that would give rise to — especially when she was so near to taking over as boss . |
| 7 | Finally , to protect its own security interest in the collateral and its proceeds , the bank will need to acquire the equivalent of possession of the original bill . |
| 8 | These rulers did not seek to usurp the position of emperor , or to abolish the institution . |
| 9 | As I was saying earlier , paper qualifications can not guarantee to exclude the kind of evil that we have been reading about in the past few weeks . |
| 10 | The basic idea of The Blind Watchmaker is that we do n't need to postulate a designer in order to understand life , or anything else in the universe . |
| 11 | A policeman , convinced of the guilt of a suspect , distrustful of juries and magistrates and more cynical than ethical may seek to extract a confession in order to support a charge and may elaborate a confession in order to obtain a conviction . |
| 12 | If the landlord 's title is registered at HM Land Registry , the tenant should consider protecting the agreement by notice or caution . |
| 13 | If Boz believes he knows who did it he wo n't wait to find the sort of proof that a judge would need . |
| 14 | However , if the score is less than five , you will need to increase the amount of time spent or the number of times a week you practise it . |
| 15 | It becomes irrelevant that the two divisions are part of one company ; each division will seek to find the volume of trade that maximises its profits , and this will not affect the other division . |
| 16 | But we should need to find a crock of gold , my dear , to provide ourselves with all that . ’ |
| 17 | The project will initially seek to establish the distribution of care and finance for that care in the present system . |
| 18 | One would not seek to reverse the course of history . |
| 19 | Top Tories will act to counter the threat of guerrilla warfare from the Tory Right , issued yesterday by Edward Leigh , sacked as junior Industry Minister in last week 's reshuffle . |
| 20 | In the first place , in the ( rare ) cases where sentence-meaning exhausts utterance-meaning ( i.e. where the speaker meant exactly what he said , no more , no less ) , the same content would be assigned both to semantics and pragmatics In other words , we would need to restrict the notion of utterance-meaning in such a way that we subtract sentence-meaning , and in that case we are back to a definition of pragmatics by residue . |
| 21 | The current laws on all kicking should remain except that any ball caught on the full from kick in general play can be returned directly into touch with the line-out at the point where the ball goes out of play — e.g. a scrum-half kicking for touch would still need to bounce the ball into touch but , should the kick be gathered on the full , then it can be kicked directly into touch . |
| 22 | Further procedural changes should include improving the exchange of information between the parties , encouraging the issue of specific written Professional Standards relating to the conduct of all principal types of litigation by the Bar and the Law Society combined with schemes to foster competence and experience , introducing new arrangements for trials , particularly so that the judge can read the case papers ( including witness statements ) before the hearing , and so be much better prepared when the hearing begins , and , in cases where there are many documents , providing a bundle of key documents , abuse of which would be checked by a personal costs sanction against the solicitors involved . |
| 23 | Sunderland 's value-for-money fighter is the leading contender for European title and if Hodkinson beats Italy 's reigning EBU champion Maurizio Stecca this autumn , Hardy will qualify to challenge the Liverpudlian by right . |
| 24 | You may need to help the patient at work , especially if he is returning to his own business . |
| 25 | Concentrating on efficiency means that we do not need to select a method of conflict resolution ( or at least may postpone the selection ) . |
| 26 | In contrast , Copenhagen states : ‘ Governments should consider limiting eligibility for IVF to women of 40 years of age or under ’ ; ‘ Governments should consider limiting the number of IVF treatment cycles per woman ’ ; and ‘ All clinics should … 0 limit the number of eggs or embryos transferred during an IVF treatment cycle to no more than three ’ . |
| 27 | In an address to the nation he promised that his government would seek to lower the cost of living and to stimulate employment , and would " promote a stable atmosphere for production and protect investors ' interests " . |
| 28 | Although the state might operate as an honest broker between different sections of the ruling class and may seek to give the appearance of neutrality to mystify its class nature and role , it will never be neutral as between the general interests of the bourgeoisie and the proletariat . |
| 29 | The ability of soil to support plant life is an extraordinarily involved and technically complicated science , and although you do not have to become a scientist in order to grow roses well , you do need to use a lot of judgement in all sorts of situations . |
| 30 | He may need to do a bit of work on the accent , but McIntosh is beginning to sound like a natural Scottish no.8 . |