Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | These were the sorts of technical problems I began discussing with my colleague Mike Stewart in the early days of the chick work , when it became clear we would want to try to make this type of measurement . |
2 | We are delighted to report that the ensuing debate we helped stimulate has transformed this orthodoxy into a vision now worthy of positive support . |
3 | We do not appear to have received this year 's Statistics Form with details of your classes , and would be very grateful if you could send it back as soon as possible . |
4 | Most Western economies do not appear to have reached this position . |
5 | The 1974 legislation would appear to have accomplished this objective . |
6 | ‘ We would like to lend our support to the appeal because we would like to help prevent this happening to other families in the future . ’ |
7 | Let's hope the Germans do n't decide to counter attack this evening . ’ |
8 | However , the addition can not be drawn until your husband retires , and if he works on after this age , you will have to wait to receive this pension . |
9 | The speeches in the House of Lords pointed out that one would have expected to find this section in a Part of the Act dealing with company charges rather than in that dealing with debentures , and accepted that the mortgage would not be a ‘ debenture , ’ for the purposes of some of the other sections . |
10 | We we do have to try to answer this question of whether or not there should be specific guidance about the location . |
11 | ‘ We should n't have took umbrage this morning , only — what with the people down here being so stand-offish , like , we got sort of sensitive about sausages . |
12 | The Perkins may have come to regret this decision because , after being eclipsed at the exhibition , the demand for their mauve dye decreased rapidly , and they found that the commercial potential for magenta dye had been grossly underestimated . |
13 | That is , as a piece of adaptive behaviour , whether wholly instinctual or partly learned , it may very well now follow as a causal consequence of the sighting ; but that precisely this sort of dance should have come to serve this purpose is , in a phylogenetic perspective , quite accidental . |
14 | ‘ One wonders , had he been able to have a say , whether he would have wished to inflict this level of strain on those around him . |
15 | West Yorkshire 's chief probation officer said : ‘ The baffling thing is , even with hindsight , we are still left wondering what more we could have done to stop this killing ’ . |
16 | But staff at Stoke Mandeville believe there was nothing they could have done to prevent this incident … |
17 | It is highly unlikely that the British government would have agreed to exchange this nobleman , an amiable figure of no political importance , for its American prisoners but at around 11 am on 23 April 1778 , John Paul led his little force of a dozen armed sailors through the garden of the mansion . |
18 | Possibly the widening class-consciousness of militant trade unionism within the Edwardian working class , especially considering the number of players from mining origins , may also have helped encourage this flurry of ‘ industrial ’ action . |
19 | We know Gary Ball 's out I do n't know how long for but I think Frank will seriously have to look to give this lad some support because he he 's doing great up there on his own there 's no doubt about that . |
20 | They have they have t why should they even have to contemplate taking this type of industrial action ? |
21 | LORD Spencer 's death might have served to remind this country of the dread winter of 1978/1979 when rubbish was uncollected in the streets , the fire brigades were on strike , hospitals were picketed by auxiliary workers who demanded to approve all surgical operations , housewives fought each other over a cauliflower leaf and the dead lay unburied in every churchyard . |
22 | It would have taken something of a miracle to attract the capital investment which might have begun to change this state of affairs . |
23 | Since you needs must drag me here , I should have liked to see this Hotspur men talk so much about . ’ |
24 | The Marshal would have liked to turn this problem over to the Captain who could have applied some brains to it . |
25 | If there are only one or two sedimentological theses in one year , the list compiler may have chosen to combine this category with that for stratigraphy . |
26 | Naturally , Pearl does n't want to have to repeat this replacement process for some time . |
27 | Er second , what action does the Government propose to take to rectify this situation ? |