Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a tiny lizard but not er not that you would want to hit with a sweeping brush . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I do n't want to go to a new school . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Frankly , neither looked like the kind of man that a woman would want to meet in a dark street … or even darker car park . |
| 10 | Do you want to know about a spectacular firework display ? |
| 11 | I mean , who in their right mind would want to jump from a great height with elastic tied round their ankles ? |
| 12 | ‘ Do you want to come to a Finnish film festival at the ICA tomorrow ? ’ asks Pamela . |
| 13 | 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 " . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | We 'll need to put in a new suite . ’ |
| 19 | 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 " . |
| 20 | Jack 's tactic was to keep as far away from his team-mates as possible — not difficult , because he was hitting the ball pretty straight and the Sunningdale amateur , who was also fairly straight , did n't really want to talk to a pro golfer . |
| 21 | Labour will develop a flexible decade of retirement between the ages of 60 and 70 , so that men and women can choose to retire on a full pension or continue in work without discrimination . |
| 22 | Its pointed head has the sort of bill you 'd expect to see on a prehistoric bird with a notch at the end like an aircraft , s radar . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , it is interesting to note that the risk elements used by Fuqua are very similar to some of the elements one might expect to see in a strategic analysis of market attractiveness and competitive strengths . |
| 24 | At first sight , he was the kind of big , bull-headed Irish-American you 'd expect to see in a blue uniform directing traffic , but he had Cyprus pretty much in his pocket and was planning to retire there after he 'd put in his twenty years . |
| 25 | A quite important task is to try to show why the set of intensional patterns is not , as might at first appear , a haphazard collection but in fact the natural set that one would expect to find in a human language . |
| 26 | Organisations may choose to relocate to a new area for a variety of reasons . |
| 27 | Knowing how rauch he could expect to earn on a regular basis from each market , he tailored his budgets accordingly . |
| 28 | ‘ We do not think it is possible to deny that there are circumstances in which individuals may justifiably choose to enter into a homosexual relationship ... [ although ] such a relationship could not be regarded as the moral or social equivalent of marriage . ' |
| 29 | Other derivatives markets , such as the financial swaps market with its standard documentation , or the forex market , with its common computer equipment , may also appear to operate on a multilateral basis . |
| 30 | Out of this material will emerge some of the items you may want to discuss with a spiritual director . |