Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teachers will need to think of new ways to plan timetables . |
| 2 | Only if this latter requirement is met can we begin to talk of linguistic competence . |
| 3 | Most of us would like to think of growing old gracefully , enjoying the years of retirement , surrounded by family and friends … but as we get older , it becomes more and more difficult to get about and meet others . |
| 4 | He had summoned all the county gentry to two consistories in the Cathedral in March 1577 , accusing those who did not wish to attend of Popish disloyalty . |
| 5 | For a start , making love does not have to consist of vaginal penetration ; and time spent reassuring , cuddling , caressing , fantasising and laughing together can be enjoyed for its own sake , or to reduce the tension so that you can relax sufficiently to enjoy intercourse . |
| 6 | An American retaliatory strike would either have to be launched before the incoming missiles arrived — a policy that would put nuclear war on a hair trigger and increase the chance of a mistake — or would have to consist of submarine-launched missiles which are only accurate enough to cities . |
| 7 | We can try to think of practical ways in which a minority of Tit for Tat individuals might happen to increase to the critical mass . |
| 8 | In this chapter , I have shown that we do not have to think of academic freedom in this way . |
| 9 | So it is that we can apply to research of different disciplinary provenance general criteria of appraisal approved by the wider culture of intellectual enquiry . |
| 10 | Your worse than Albert , but why do n't you go to front of bloody paper . |
| 11 | Yet it is only through particular instances of truth that we can come to understand what it might mean to speak of absolute Truth . |
| 12 | They would prefer to think of little green men than leprechauns . ’ |
| 13 | She ‘ would prefer to think of different languages as having the potential to exploit differing degrees of subjectivity ’ but she does not think there is ‘ any neutral ontology or world view which is objective and can serve as a universal yardstick . |
| 14 | He did continue to think of rough-hewn men , or boys with what he described as ‘ French bodies ’ . |
| 15 | There is less reason to baulk at the term referent , although a referent is , by definition , something outside language , and although we should prefer to speak of syntactic entities in order to keep in harmony with the assumptions we have been following throughout this text ; however the latter are the linguistic correlates of what are perceived as extra-linguistic referents , and the patterns of intensional relations are exactly the same whether there is an external referent or not . |
| 16 | The 10% of the population who have addictive disease will always find methods of obtaining alcohol or will turn to use of other mood-altering chemicals . |