Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've taken all this into account , erm I 'm not sure all groups have tried to do that , erm but we have tried to please everyone , we do have some particular priorities and we do want to make significant improvements in service where we can and not necessarily looking for cheap publicity by increasing in lots of places as some people are supposed to of done so where one concludes sometime a significant amount of money in but will have a noticeable difference to their essential service . |
| 2 | ‘ I do want to play Premier League football next season , but with Portsmouth and not with anyone else . ’ |
| 3 | I do prefer to wear smart clothes for work ; it 's still not easy for women in business to be taken seriously — I like to look the part . |
| 4 | But you do need to do good voice and movement workouts — it 's like going back to the keyboard for a musician . |
| 5 | … first of all … they do need to acquire manipulative skills in order to play a xylophone , french horn , synthesizer , whatever … so they learn these as and when they need them … through to recording techniques and so on and so on , but always when they need them … |
| 6 | Though rejected by the Labour Cabinet and the Treasury as impractical and contrary to the tenets of the prevailing fiscal orthodoxy , the notion of generous pensions with a retirement condition did appeal to moderate Labour opinion for the rest of the 1930s . |
| 7 | Pupils do ask questions of truth , do seek to establish moral foundations for their lives , do quest for a spirituality which will assuage their own sense of rootlessness and hunger for meaning as well as teach them how to live compassionately and courageously on our fragile planet . |
| 8 | Children do appear to assume different words contrast with each other in meaning , and they impose contrasts in meaning where there are differences in form . |
| 9 | Wagstaff argues that the few studies which do appear to show modest improvement in recall under hypnosis failed to have control groups which were equally encouraged to remember . |
| 10 | What is particularly noteworthy is the fact that , despite the relative paucity of religious output compared to , say , news or drama , many people do choose to encounter religious programming . |
| 11 | It is accepted that individual positions are unequally rewarded , but the questions of access and opportunity now become central , and although Western capitalist societies do not claim to be equal , they do claim to offer equal opportunity to all in the competition for unequal positions . |
| 12 | Again , Lenin 's promise that the main aim of NEP was to restore peasant fortunes did begin to bear real fruit before the end of 1922 . |
| 13 | Well , I do 'appen to 'ave good legs , and I 've been complimented on me knees too . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ When I started , ’ he recalls , ‘ I did try to follow old patterns , but it was n't easy , so I followed my imagination . |
| 15 | Mind you , there was a lot of us , but still we did have to work long hours . |
| 16 | Young whelks , however , do have to bore large barnacles . |
| 17 | that is a luxury I think erm to be able to do it , if you want to write and earn money , which I do as well as , as socialize while I 'm working erm you 've got to find ways of , of , of doing that and erm just writing books and poetry just would n't , I , I , I could n't survive on that , I really do have to find other ways of , of earning money which is enjoying more and also uses of my skill and erm I would think you 'd need to be in contact with the situation rather than you not knowing , being able to write about that . |
| 18 | Some of these apparent anomalies are due to the fact that people do happen to hold contradictory beliefs . |
| 19 | It is an apt and evocative name — but do try to see potential purchases in bloom before you buy , as it is not always reliable and can disappoint ( see pages 139 and 140 ) . |
| 20 | We do try to have general repairs done . |
| 21 | The 1958 Act could be interpreted simply in terms of the needs of departments themselves for information , although in practice we do attempt to apply historical selection criteria . |
| 22 | Thus discourses associated with government will receive more coverage than those associated with , for example , the Green Party , although in Britain at least there are alternative publications which favour the ‘ green ’ view , and newspapers which , if they do n't publish official Green discourses , do attempt to cover environmental issues from other approaches . |
| 23 | England did n't quite make it in the Rugby World Cup but we did manage to fight rival bids from the likes of Sweden , Austria and Canada to host the prestigious Hair Olympics '94 . |
| 24 | Most studies focus on school achievement , but this may be misleading because there is evidence to suggest that Afro-Caribbean and Asian students are more likely than white students to stay on in further education and some do manage to obtain academic qualifications that had eluded them at school ( Craft and Craft , 1983 ) , while one investigation suggests that young black people in inner city areas had gained better academic qualifications than white youth in the same areas ( Roberts , Duggan and Noble , 1983 ) , a finding borne out more generally by some other studies ( Brown , 1984 ) . |
| 25 | If you do manage to buy wild boar , I suggest you try making hamburgers . |
| 26 | John Cross , speaking at a press conference to mark the publication yesterday of The Military Balance 1989-90 , the institute 's authoritative annual survey of world armed forces , said that the cuts under way in the Warsaw Pact ‘ do tend to support Soviet claims of new thinking ’ . |
| 27 | However , because their gain is high at high frequencies they do tend to exhibit high-frequency instability . |
| 28 | They do tend to have single nylon that 's a single strip that just folds round . |
| 29 | While nothing definitive can be concluded from such meagre data , the fact that such examples do seem to suggest different impressions than the to infinitive to speakers of various dialects indicates that they deserve closer attention , especially in the light of a further examination of the passive voice . |
| 30 | There are many different definitions of leadership , but they do seem to have certain features in common and a useful general definition is that given by Kossen : ‘ Leadership is the ability to influence the behaviour of others to go in a certain direction . ’ |