Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We may eventually need to relate these factors to one another or to other events in a child 's life , such as educational progress , length of stay in care or destination on exit .
2 Having acquired a dominant position in a market , a firm will presumably seek to exploit that position , unless it is constrained by the threat of potential competition .
3 If in addition we require that the production function is said to satisfy the Inada ( 1963 ) conditions , but we do not necessarily want to impose these restrictions .
4 In the meantime , many hope that the world travel industry , conservationists and national governments will together strive to achieve this balance .
5 Coun Mrs Harker said : ‘ I would very much like to see more speed limits on all the roads coming into West Auckland .
6 I 'd very much like to borrow that shirt sometime .
7 In the long term , I 'd only like to see more effort aimed at subject matter , and perhaps , in some cases , less concern with veneer quality
8 An independent charity , the association say they can only hope to continue this level of help to sporting organisations with the public 's support .
9 But he would not necessarily decide to honour all rights provided in all statutes .
10 The only thing I 'd say , I , I would have expected perhaps I missed out on , on yesterday 's course , but I would perhaps have expected more emphasis to have been given to something that you mentioned , right at the end , was ‘ Find out how long the interview 's going to be ’ .
11 There are , of course , major problems in evaluating programmes , as we have already discussed , but one could perhaps have expected more concern about the amount of information transmitted by each method and about how each works in the classroom .
12 Even the most positivist anthropologist , knowing the statistical significance of categories of population , would not have been immune from a romantic curiosity , would perhaps have spent more time visiting this wastefully subsidized relic of the past than a cool assessment of scientific value could warrant .
13 Chapters 5 and 7 will especially try to address these issues .
14 The investors or Newco 's lawyers will obviously wish to examine any documents of title to the assets .
15 It now looks likely that pension schemes will only have to backdate any equalisation of benefits between men and women to those in service on or after 17 May 1990 .
16 The desk clerk had gone off duty , but had he seen Kragan , he would only have seen another businessman in an expensive coat returning to his hotel after a night out .
17 The level of Telford 's line was 54 feet lower than Barnes 's and , having fewer locks , would not only have used less water , but also more water could have been drained into it .
18 One would only wish to receive this kind of evidence with caution , hesitating to draw stereotypical impressions of the children of engineers and actors , and impressions gathered some decades ago , aware as we are that social behaviour and social attitudes change with the passing of time .
19 The promptness with which the US rejected Iraq 's February 15 offer , widely seen in the Arab world as a genuine peace initiative , can only serve to confirm this view .
20 But Rome did not merely refuse to send any representative to Amsterdam .
21 You 'd better start learning that Highway Code .
22 I do not think come this weekend either that we will have any worries about being able to last the pace , ’ he asserted .
23 As my right hon. Friend pointed out from the Dispatch Box yesterday , only £1 in £3 of agricultural support goes to farmers , which we do not think makes much sense .
24 What is the smallest amount she can not make using these coins ?
25 Something similar to this can happen in discussion if a speaker does not want to let another interrupt .
26 Obviously one would not want to see that scene again . ’
27 Redmond , Washington-based Microsoft Corp does not want to see any part of the digital automation process that is not touched by Windows , and the company has developed a specification for computer integrated telephony for the MS-DOS personal computer , with which , needless to say , it is aiming to set the industry-standard .
28 erm One of our buyers , Spain , er was not in favour of that solution because they were not a member of the tornado team and they did not want to see some kind of old boys club er running this project which was very important to them .
29 We do not want to see more knife carrying by people who are mentally ill , although that clearly affects a minority of community care cases .
30 Coun Philip Stamford Bewlay ( Con ) said he did not want to see another pub in the town centre but officers said that was not an issue the planning committee is entitled to discuss .
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