Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe that er we did n't er consider going to look at the development because it was quite clearly in the minds of a large percentage of us that it was contrary to the town plan and so we did not think it was necessary to do that . |
| 2 | In order to establish their seriousness and integrity in seeking exclusive negotiations , the buyer should also consider volunteering to enter into a confidentiality agreement with the seller . |
| 3 | Mr Ashdown yesterday sought to provide himself with even more leeway in a hung parliament by outlining circumstances in which he would not feel bound to vote against a Queen 's Speech which did not contain PR . |
| 4 | In negotiations with management , union officials may feel compelled to resort to the threat of industrial action ( a strike , ‘ blacking ’ certain work practices , a work-to-rule or go-slow etc — to use resource power in the form of their control over the labour force , ie. the support of their members ) . |
| 5 | But before you do you 've got to look at the material in the working file . |
| 6 | He moved up to the counter with the air of a man who does n't like having to go through a routine once again but is prepared to do so , all right then here 's my card if you insist ! |
| 7 | And we had erm we , there was a few changes during that time , we used to get troops coming in and occupying the classroom , and we maybe , at the very early days I can remember having to go to the Street School and also the Street Hall which belong that was a church hall . |
| 8 | ‘ How would you like to have to ask for a penny to buy a stamp if you wanted to write a letter ? ’ she would ask . |
| 9 | In his article Neumann can not avoid having to deal with the Menuetto from Beethoven 's Symphony no.1 , which goes at a lively dotted minim = 108 . |
| 10 | He shrugs off calls to slow down and wo n't stop working to go to the toilet . |
| 11 | But he will have to wait to get into the action — an ankle injury has sidelined him for two weeks . |
| 12 | ( c ) by arguing that any subsequent inconsistent legislation was inadvertent , that the Westminster Parliament could not have intended to legislate in a manner conflicting with community obligations and that the " bounden duty of the courts would then be to give effect to community law " Macarthys v. Smith ( C.A. , 1979 ) . |
| 13 | The few pieces of furniture looked old , solid , and unprepossessing , the kind of stuff that Pete would have expected to see at the bargain end of a market-town auction . |
| 14 | It is surely self-evident that whatever role they might have expected to perform in the family is likely to be changed , by being alienated from their roots . |
| 15 | Gould , however , was probably the last person Lear should have expected to engage in a chatty , long correspondence . |
| 16 | With more first preference votes as a result of successful equalisation McNarry might have expected to stay in the count longer than Bradford and thus receive votes from the transfers of opponents . |
| 17 | It was the sort of notice that one might have expected to read on a bus going from New York to Philadelphia . |
| 18 | When I saw no one in the middle of the room , which had been full of music and smoke and pungent with the smell of hashish , I thought he might have forgotten to turn off the music before he went to sleep . |
| 19 | ‘ But with seven forwards on this summer 's tour and Andy Platt back on the scene , he would have struggled to get into the team . ’ |
| 20 | Except for the occasional food-parcel from the United States , he would never have sought to diverge from the rationing system , which , like many other controls , were maintained long after the war ended . |
| 21 | I hope that my hon. Friend will dispel any notion that the Secretary of State may have sought to introduce to the effect that the passage of the Bill would be seriously delayed if we examined the important question of victimisation . |
| 22 | Also , because smoking tends to be associated with a lower body mass index , our inability to adjust for any confounding due to body weight will have tended to result in an underestimation of the effect of smoking . |
| 23 | I found myself questioning many of their beliefs in a way that I would not have dared to do at the beginning of the study ; I could question them in their own terms and in doing so , test the boundaries of their beliefs . |
| 24 | Bells played a prominent part in medieval life , and mechanisms for ringing them , made of toothed wheels and oscillating levers , may have helped to prepare for the invention of mechanical clocks . |
| 25 | Edberg defeated Cash in a quality final which many , I suspect , would have preferred to see as the final itself . |
| 26 | He would have preferred to lead into the topic more subtly , but did not wish his Uncle to overhear the discussion . |
| 27 | They were absolutely not a disaster for women , obviously I would have preferred to stay on the shadow cabinet , but we have three women in the shadow cabinet , and we have a number of women in senior positions outside the shadow cabinet . |
| 28 | But even the happiness Mother and Father felt at being able to live together under the same roof at last was tinged with sadness , because they both liked Stainmore very much and would have preferred to stay in the area . |
| 29 | She would have preferred to eat in the kitchen at the large scrubbed table with the farm-hands and Mrs Hopkins , the housekeeper . |
| 30 | Adam would have preferred to phone for a hire car but Lewis would n't hear of it . |