Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] a [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following factors may influence a decision to employ contractors : |
| 2 | Describe the nature of qualitative factors and give three examples that may influence a decision to make a component rather than buy it from another firm . |
| 3 | In a nation of committed male chauvinists , all this excitement may stimulate a desire to pinch a schoolgirl 's bottom . |
| 4 | The peasant , for instance , who wishes to sell his avocados or pots in the local market may need a licence to do so , something that is outside the realm of the usual activities of a peasant , especially an illiterate . |
| 5 | ‘ Consumers do not confuse the availability of good physical facilities with good quality ; such facilities may tempt a consumer to choose a particular shop , but it is the quality of the staff which will determine whether the consumer will buy or return a second time . ’ |
| 6 | Index Pages These provide lists of options , from which the user must make a selection to access particular facilities . |
| 7 | Solicitors and barristers in private practice are in business and must make a profit to survive . |
| 8 | She laughed , then knew she must make a move to release herself from his embrace — otherwise he 'd imagine she was actually waiting to be kissed . |
| 9 | Given the parallel problems that the CNAA and the universities would face as validators of the DipHE and/or the new BEd , Edwin Kerr and Sir Kenneth Berrill , Chairman of the UGC , took the initiative to propose that the two organizations should convene a conference to discuss the DipHE and the BEd . |
| 10 | This conviction on the part of executive management should include a willingness to sustain an experimental attitude throughout the change effort and to stick with the effort . |
| 11 | They should include a commitment to prompt and effective action . |
| 12 | The Pakistani Prime Minister , Mohammad Khan Junejo , and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain agreed in April 1987 that a peace settlement for Afghanistan should include a commitment to establish ‘ a neutral non-aligned ’ regime in Kabul . |
| 13 | The concrete should include a membrane to prevent rising damp . |
| 14 | The army must include a General to lead it . |
| 15 | The army must include a General to lead it . |
| 16 | I thought all the world smelt of onions ; I should expect a writer to choose a less ubiquitous smell to show observation . |
| 17 | We should expect a student to tackle a problematic discourse in the same way as we would ourselves : that is to say top-down , starting with general ideas of the discourse and filling in details — like difficult word meaning — later . |
| 18 | The parliament of the autonomous region of Assab , established under the previous regime , was no longer functioning , the document said , and the transitional government in Addis Ababa should give a commitment to preserve the integrity of the Afar-inhabited areas . |
| 19 | Towards the end I argued we should remove a section to recover what dating evidence was available below it . |
| 20 | Although there is no law governing the performance of household refrigerators , you should use a thermometer to make sure your refrigerator is operating at 5°C or colder . |
| 21 | You will understand when I say that I should like a poem to stand as preface to your book , a poem which we have both admired so much , Thomas Hardy 's ‘ Afterwards ’ . |
| 22 | If you must use a light to illuminate your indicators then make it a dull , red one . |
| 23 | I propose that the new Bill , like the Bill of 1938 , should contain a provision to carry out this recommendation . |
| 24 | The contract should contain a plan to enable the buyer 's conveyancer to undertake a local authority search . |
| 25 | Some companies insist that journalists or other borrowers should sign a form to say that they will be responsible for any photographs borrowed and that they will pay for it in the event that a photograph is lost or not returned before a certain date . |
| 26 | That must cost a fortune to have them on ! |
| 27 | I will attempt to accommodate shortlisted parties preferences as to the dates of their review but you should anticipate a requirement to work to a tight timescale . |
| 28 | The pattern must suggest a capacity to continue after the violation , if only as an echo . |
| 29 | This should permit a draughtsman to see instantly whether the part that he has been asked to design exists already somewhere in the company . |
| 30 | It should encourage a willingness to engage on common ground , where ‘ meaning ’ theist and ‘ meaning ’ atheist conduct an argument in which each understands the other and indeed may convert the other . |