Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did he really need to go so far to learn so little ? |
| 2 | The steady flow of emigrants from the British Isles meant that landowners in the West Indies did not need to look further afield to find workers for growing tobacco , for which they needed a relatively small labour force working all the year round . |
| 3 | The National Rivers Authority in Wales has called for a ban on conifer plantations in sensitive areas , but Nicholas Luard and the Bara Ceirch group feel they need to act more quickly to save the river . |
| 4 | There did not seem much point in working at my research , because I did n't expect to live long enough to finish my Ph.D . |
| 5 | Buy it and it 'll ruin your life — the dog will crap on your carpet 'cos you forgot to take it walkies , you 'll lose three stone in weight 'cos you ca n't stop playing long enough to eat ( load it in — Fatty Phil ) , and your next electricity bill will be bigger than Gazza 's pay packet . |
| 6 | Gilmour hit back : ‘ Pat Clinton does n't stop working long enough to have the time to use his head . |
| 7 | Auditors and tax specialists will have to liaise more closely to ensure that internal procedures allow deadlines to be met . |
| 8 | As you embark on the F-Plan you might have to work quite energetically to convince yourself that the supposed virtues of the old low-carbohydrate method of dieting have been disproved by recent research . |
| 9 | ‘ Retailers will have to work much harder to persuade shoppers to part with their money . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ And then we 'd have to come here tomorrow to deal with the car . |
| 11 | And if Rod sells this house I 'll have to find somewhere else to live . ’ |
| 12 | Without this productivity increase exports could not have expanded fast enough to balance the additional imports required to sustain the 1955–61 expansion . |
| 13 | The old man must have moved very softly to get within twenty yards of him unheard , although the quiet afternoon was in fact a steady rumble and distant clatter of farm machinery . |
| 14 | Indeed , if the results in London had been repeated throughout the country , Labour would not have done well enough to gain an overall majority in a putative general election . |
| 15 | They say that America would have done better simply to import the Canadian system of national insurance financed by taxes . |
| 16 | Would she have searched so ardently to find that patch of dull revealing blankness ? |
| 17 | Of course one effect of the making of these revelations would have been to put D's record ( if he had one ) in issue as well , so that the jury would have had even more to think about to assist them in the weighing of the evidence in this case or ( depending on how you look at it ) to distract them from it . |
| 18 | In one of the most tantalising promises yet made in the computer industry , Unix System Laboratories Inc is claiming that independent software vendors who port their applications to its Destiny desktop implementation of Unix SVR4 will only have to do so once to have it run on the disparate architectures of Intel Corp , Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc RISC , MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC , Hewlett-Packard Co PA RISC and IBM Corp 's RS/6000 RISC . |
| 19 | By the time they were old enough to ride ( another three years ) they would have cost considerably more to keep ! |
| 20 | Erm it is admitted that people are gon na have go much further to get their treatment ah , that was quite clearly stated as part of the the down side of it , and I do n't think we can tolerate that until we 've got a decent public transport system that 's going to allow patients to get by public transport from here to Colchester or Witham or Clacton or wherever and er and their , their relatives and friends to be able to follow to visit them if you know , as necessary . |
| 21 | This ought in theory to have raised the amount demanded by Wolsey , but would have taken much longer to collect . |
| 22 | The primary mechanism suggested for this relationship of war with advances in social welfare is political : that the demands of total war forced government to make concessions to organised labour and the working classes in general which otherwise might have taken much longer to achieve . |
| 23 | Senescence in industrialized human societies has become so apparent because of the removal of most extrinsic causes of death and lowered fertility ; in the circumstances in which the life history evolved , these would have predominated , and few individuals would have lived long enough to show evidence of ageing . |
| 24 | There are now few poultry farms within listening distance but , according to a nineteenth century folklorist , ‘ In ancient days the cocks must have crowed most lustily to have produced vibrations on either the sensitive rock or the tympanum of man ’ . |
| 25 | After all , you 'll have to move pretty fast to do all that in two years , wo n't you ? ’ |
| 26 | Once the board has turned you will have to move forwards quickly to kill the turn before it goes too far . |
| 27 | May the author once again intrude upon whatever mood his narrative might have established long enough to report on current events ? ’ |
| 28 | They wo n't have to travel so far to work . |
| 29 | They were the Test Match addicts , very small babies , icecream van drivers or , as in our house , parents with toddlers who WO N'T stay put long enough to let them catch breath , let alone get a tan ! |
| 30 | I 'm forever on at my father to get more phones put in , but he says we do n't get called often enough to warrant extensions . |