Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [to-vb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may hurt to hear accusing comments like this — for highly-charged emotions are often linked to equally-highly-charged events , or a series of events , from our past . |
| 2 | Some older people may want to move to obtain more suitable housing or to be nearer their children or brothers or sisters . |
| 3 | The current area may not appear attractive to staff , possibly because of high house prices , and so firms may want to move to help their recruitment or perhaps reduce their staff turnover levels . |
| 4 | You may want to continue using drugs , but receive regular support or counselling . |
| 5 | You may want to stop using , or go on to substitute drugs . |
| 6 | In these cases , we may want to smooth to remove the effect of events which are unique or which are simply not the main trend in which we are interested ; it is good practice to plot the rough as well as the smooth values , to inspect exactly what has been discarded . |
| 7 | But it 's important to bear in mind that even if children have left home , they may want to return to stay later on , maybe with partners and grandchildren in tow . |
| 8 | You may have a new group for whom you have to work out a syllabus , or you may want to check to see whether a revision session is necessary or not . |
| 9 | He may want to get rid of her anyway . |
| 10 | Ordinary-quality facing bricks will be ideal for most outdoor walling , but you may want to consider using special-quality bricks in particularly exposed areas . |
| 11 | Finally , you will get slightly improved sound insulation as well — although for best results you need an air gap bigger than the 20mm maximum usually found in sealed units , and you may want to consider having secondary acoustic double glazing as well . |
| 12 | ‘ They may be sympathetic and may want to try to help , but we know that they treat the symptoms and not the cause . ’ |
| 13 | With this process of legislation , any changes the ministers may want to make look like concessions to the Opposition . |
| 14 | Sometimes , when much excitement was previously invested in the chase and conquest of courtship , the partners may need to continue to reassure themselves of being able to win love and move from one sexual conquest to another outside the marriage . |
| 15 | These people may need to get married — trapped — to prove that they can get out , that divorce is not impossible , to discover that they can influence and do something about the situation . |
| 16 | You may need to keep repeating the names of foods and objects to reinforce his awareness , or to recite the order in which a task like cooking or washing up is achieved . |
| 17 | If he has severe perceptual problems , for instance , you may need to keep reminding him where his face is by helping him to touch it , or he may keep forgetting to shave or wash the left half of his face . |
| 18 | Men too may need to learn to delegate duties both at work and at home . |
| 19 | ( 11 ) Where the bidder proposes to issue consideration shares , loan stock or debenture stock which are to be listed it may need to prepare listing particulars ( see para 17.1.3 below ) . |
| 20 | What I ca n't understand , though , is why the British should want to get involved . ’ |
| 21 | I would therefore argue that even if the discrepancy between girls ' and boys ' performance at the top levels of achievement in mathematics was entirely due to differences in ability ( which I do not believe , but nevertheless should stay as a possible hypothesis ) , there is a strong case for saying that we should act to try to alter the situation . |
| 22 | Iraq is a grim model of what kind of thing the next secretary-general should expect to have thrown at him . |
| 23 | Such cultural diversity we should expect to find expressed in the structures and institutional life of the churches . |
| 24 | He looked like a tiger baulked of its prey , but the amusement was only on the surface ; underneath he was furious that she should dare to try to escape him . |
| 25 | On behalf of my sixteen-year-old daughter , and the rest of us who occasionally wrestle the receiver from her , I should like to say thank you . |
| 26 | And on behalf of all those who have received this support from you , I should like to say thank you . |
| 27 | In his first letter from there he makes a significant little admission to Theo , and encloses a sketch : ‘ I should like to begin making hasty sketches of some of the many things I meet … but as it would probably keep me from my real work it is better not to start . ’ |
| 28 | One matter which I should like to have seen included would almost certainly have merited parliamentary discussion before the inevitable dissolution of this Parliament , which will make this a short Session . |
| 29 | I was glad that we had not troubled him personally , though we confessed that we should like to have set foot in the flat . |
| 30 | I should like to have known more about his views on possible links between social deprivation and suicidal intent , but perhaps that would be a different kind of book . |