Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] to [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The to infinitive is called for with such verbs , so it is not surprising that perceptual verbs should take to before the infinitive when used in the more conceptual inferential sense . |
| 2 | He had drawn up a long list of people she ought to talk to during the day : fashion houses , designers , a couple of artists ' studios , a gallery specializing in contemporary prints . |
| 3 | she does n't spell her name like that and I 'll speak to within the next couple of working days |
| 4 | I 'll have to in the Argos place . |
| 5 | I 'd like to I 'd like to in the world . |
| 6 | One of the few places we could go to on the camp at Binbrook without risk of being observed by the hierarchy was the Station cinema . |
| 7 | I wish there was someone I could talk to about the problems — someone who 'd keep an eye on him and watch for him getting bad and get the doctor to do something , sooner ; someone who 'd help him with money , a job , get him out of the room for a bit , give us a break too . |
| 8 | We do know that two or three or four may have to in the foreseeable future . |
| 9 | Erm , if you may not have had to do this , you may have to in the future . |
| 10 | The research was conducted in two water authorities which when necessary I shall refer to as the ‘ northern ’ and ‘ southern ’ authorities — adjectives simply chosen in the interests of anonymity . |
| 11 | What Marx here calls the ‘ division of labour in general ’ , I shall refer to as the division of labour by sectors or by branches , as appropriate . |
| 12 | What he calls the ‘ division of labour in particular ’ , I shall refer to as the division of labour by enterprises , or enterprise-groups , as appropriate . |
| 13 | The reason for this once again centres on the role played by the information set available to agents at the end of period t - 1 , which we shall refer to by the symbol . |
| 14 | No no no no can I no no yes just let just let me pursue pursue the the thing the way I would like to at the moment . |
| 15 | Production from the 40 or so fields currently either producing or under development , will fall to around the 20 million tonnes per year level by the end of the century . |
| 16 | The idea that compliance with profit maximisation should be enforced through shareholder supervision and control lies at the centre of what we will refer to as the ‘ ownership model ’ of the company . |
| 17 | There are two very different uses to which the concept of syndrome can be put , and it is important to appreciate the distinction between these uses which we will refer to as the theoretical and the clinical . |
| 18 | Er I I think my honourable friend , if I followed him er is confusing two things , er because erm er what we , he was beginning by talking about er are what we will come to in the regulations er which is the right of citizens of other er member countries to vote in the country of which they 're not a citizen to vote . |
| 19 | This is just the same for systems like the Polynesian one , discussed by Engels , where large numbers of people can referred to by the same term as one 's father . |
| 20 | Art you can dance to from the creative group called Halo |
| 21 | The budgets represent targets which responsible personnel can work to during the period and possibly also provide a means to motivate personnel . |
| 22 | It should be recognised as the only organisation that the deaf mutes of the whole United Kingdom can look to as the protector of their interests , and they should have something they can depend upon . |
| 23 | Sometimes such problems are tackled by putting the students to work in twos and threes , so that good readers can help the slower ones ; in the case of fairly lengthy work-cards , where more explanation is given , it is also helpful to record the text on a cassette , which the slower reader can listen to with the words before him , increasing his familiarity with the written word at the same time as giving him the information that he needs . |