Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [to-vb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first place they may want to do no more than ensure that the Constitution is not altered casually or carelessly or by subterfuge or implication ; they may want to secure that this important document is not lightly tampered with , but solemnly , with due notice and deliberation , consciously amended . |
| 2 | A democracy should strive to make the most of its people ; encourage active citizenship . |
| 3 | In many ways I should like to do the same , for there are wonderful stories to be told , and I love storytelling . |
| 4 | I should like to suggest a few alternatives to the MICHAEL DOUGLAS , FUCK YOU , RACIST , SEXIST , ANTI-GAY school of sign-writing . |
| 5 | I do not intend to speak for hours , but I should like to make a few further comments . |
| 6 | It will surprise nobody that I should like to redistribute the All England Club 's money for them but in so doing , give them more direct control over how it is used . |
| 7 | ‘ But I feel it 's a bit unfair that he should try to use a few Press photographs as an excuse ! ’ |
| 8 | When you are helping the patient to wash , you should try to follow the same sequence as the nurse , and remember to keep describing to the patient everything that is happening . |
| 9 | It says it 's wrong that a judge should have to pass the same sentence on an abused wife who kills a brutal husband as it does on a robber armed with a shotgun who kills in cold blood . |
| 10 | Erm other people should have to make the same sacrifices . |
| 11 | It 's a problem the Forestry Commission must tackle to make the most of income from timber , say the audit office . |
| 12 | Where one librarian may choose to spend several complete days in the school vacation creating a database , other librarians or teachers may choose to spend a few hours every week over one or two terms . |
| 13 | As for advising someone else who might want to do the same thing as myself , I do n't know what to say . |
| 14 | If we were really lucky we 'd be able to go to conference and try and sell hundreds of them to other Green Parties who might want to do the same . |
| 15 | And do n't think I 'll hesitate to do the same . ’ |
| 16 | Ruth had already decided to bring her own children to be photographed today , and then approached all her friends with young families , suggesting they might like to do the same — so it had turned into a children 's party . |
| 17 | You might like to stay the same weight but change your shape . |
| 18 | I thought I might like to have a few . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He 'll have to take a few more days , ’ said Quinn . |
| 20 | You 'll have to do the same with me . |
| 21 | In fact , she 'll have to eat the same amount of calories as Mary — rather than what she ate before — or she 'll eventually regain the lost weight . |
| 22 | ‘ I think I 'll have to have a few words with whoever has been saying this . |
| 23 | I 'll er I 'll try to get a few things , make a few bob you know , |
| 24 | If we are sceptical that an evidential base with intrinsic credibility and a isolatable and justifiable conception of rationality can be found , then we might try to tackle the same problems non-reductively , in which case anti-naturalist scruples seem out of place . |
| 25 | Kawasaki Steel is now saying that it might have to do the same . |
| 26 | I might have to unbend a few things , though . ’ |
| 27 | Once , this woman from an agency stopped me in the street and offered me a job and I travelled to Manchester to her agency , but they said : you 'd need to lose a few pounds , and get rid of this spot , and things like that ; and I thought : I ca n't be bothered . |
| 28 | Cynthia Cockburn calls this " studied hypocrisy " , arguing that as things stood no woman could expect to earn the same wage as a man , because of the Factory Acts among other things , and links it with the undoubtedly fiercely held view among many compositors that women really had no right to " leave the home " anyway . |
| 29 | He also saw the need to rewrite roles around the talents of the actors , as he did for Crawford , but there were limits to what he could do to make the most of the story for the cinema . |
| 30 | In fact , some of the paragraphs reproduced in summary form the personal rights articles of the constitution of 1922 and thus could claim to maintain the latter 's libertarian heritage . |