Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Budapest Municipality will pay half the cost of fitting a converter , but many may prefer to upgrade to new cars . |
| 2 | If some unexpected problems are revealed by the disclosure letter , the acquirer may want to insist on special provisions or indemnities being included in the agreement . |
| 3 | You may need to turn to professional advice . |
| 4 | For instance , we may need to negotiate with political agitators but offer treatment to the dangerous psychopath . |
| 5 | Even a non-trading corporation may need to engage in various activities in pursuance of its objects . |
| 6 | If the patient has problems with his employer , he may need to apply for professional help through his social worker . |
| 7 | Attention to surveillance and the rational use of primary and secondary resources are still needed , but as we try to add ‘ quality to quantity ’ we may need to look to social science as well as to epidemiology . |
| 8 | If current cultivars do not adapt , breeders may need to look for new varieties which cope better with milder winters . |
| 9 | Interest cover , for example , would not be so appropriate — the shareholder would be more interested in dividends and may need to look at alternative investment opportunities as well as the possibility of selling their shares at this stage given the results of Belper . |
| 10 | The setting is more precise with horizontal heaters ; you may need to experiment with vertical heaters . |
| 11 | Similarly , within any stage , different agencies may need to focus on different aspects . |
| 12 | In such circumstances it is natural that Ministers should want to implement without undue delay policies for changes in the legal framework of the criminal law and for dealing with offenders which they may have espoused before coming to power . |
| 13 | There is less reason to baulk at the term referent , although a referent is , by definition , something outside language , and although we should prefer to speak of syntactic entities in order to keep in harmony with the assumptions we have been following throughout this text ; however the latter are the linguistic correlates of what are perceived as extra-linguistic referents , and the patterns of intensional relations are exactly the same whether there is an external referent or not . |
| 14 | On the one hand , we must use all possible means to regain old markets , to , open new ones up , and to encourage international trade on the basis of the division of labour ; and on the other , we must endeavour to awaken in British industry a spirit of joint endeavour … . |
| 15 | On a practical and tactical level it suggests that groups with common aspirations should seek to engage in broadly-based political alliances to further their shared interests , through a combination of lobbying , pressure-group activity and litigation . |
| 16 | Both documents seek to identify the skills and understandings which their respective subjects should seek to achieve at different stages of schooling . |
| 17 | I should like to hear from social workers with experience of working with children and young adults with Dubowitz Syndrome . |
| 18 | I should like to know for certain how … |
| 19 | This is the level at which the focus should begin to shift from isolated language items to the real use of those items to convey a message . |
| 20 | Once a CFE treaty was signed talks should begin to build on additional measures including ones to limit manpower in Europe ; a commitment would be given at the time of signature of the CFE treaty concerning the manpower levels of a unified Germany . |
| 21 | If there is a shortfall of Catholic school provision in an area , it has never been accepted that Catholic pupils should have to go to non-Catholic schools . |
| 22 | It is wrong that we should have to reply on voluntary information in such an extremely important matter . |
| 23 | On it a pavilion was built , joined by separate bridges to the French and Spanish banks of the river , so that neither minister should have to pass through foreign territory . |
| 24 | When they are on the move they are essentially solitary creatures and find it quite inexplicable that their human owners should wish to indulge in communal walking . |
| 25 | We should aim to build on bilingual pupils ' increased potential for divergent thinking , and their abilities for concept transferral between languages . |
| 26 | Meh'Lindi had once mentioned a legendary Assassin who swallowed a rebel governor 's young son whole so that the child should seem to vanish into thin air . |
| 27 | He understands that the flight is only temporary and the bird must come to rest on solid ground again at some point just as the next stanza provides a landing area for his mind . |
| 28 | No one can be forced into an ujamaa village , and no official — at any level — can go and tell the members of an ujamaa village what they should do together , and what they should continue to do as individual farmers . |
| 29 | We should continue to debate with local authorities to ensure that quality is included in the specifications for direct works . |
| 30 | We must continue to intervene in contemporary feminist debates on desire , pleasure , power and image . |