Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [adj] [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | families of those who have lost loved ones , who do n't want to see other families going through the suffering that they have gone through . |
| 2 | I just do n't want to see similar signs appearing up mountains as hill-walking grows more popular Where would it all end ? |
| 3 | They would not proscribe the teaching of fine art , archaeology or music — but would much prefer to see British colleges turning out many more vocation-ally-trained graduates in science , technology and business management . |
| 4 | ( 9 ) If the bidder is proposing to offer consideration shares then , unless it already has sufficient authorised but unissued share capital and the appropriate directors ' authority to allot such shares , it will need to pass ordinary resolutions increasing its authorised share capital and granting the directors an authority under CA 1985 , s80 . |
| 5 | During this period students may opt to undertake placement-related studies leading to the award of the additional qualification of Diploma in Industrial Studies , thus further integrating their academic and applied knowledge and enhancing their career prospects . |
| 6 | Having said that er we would prefer a quota system for er Stansted because without it , we could have a large number of noisey flights into Stansted and , and also that er in terms of er both this and further consultations we would expect to see full information providing us from er , a to enable us to make a sensible conclusion . |
| 7 | If these theories are by and large correct we should expect to find proteinoid globules occurring spontaneously in modern volcanic environments . |
| 8 | Politics , however — at least in the sense of nationalist feeling — had for many decades been an important and even a dominant theme in children 's fiction , and we would expect to find Ruritanian stones using nationalistic honour as a theme at least in books where adventure made any pretence of being more than a game . |
| 9 | ‘ Hear you 've got great things going on over there . ’ |
| 10 | I 'd like to see Euro MPs introducing their singers in the Eurovision Song Contest ! |
| 11 | The commission would like to see independent authorities running the parks instead of county councils . |
| 12 | How would you like to have young Rodney livin' here with us ? " |
| 13 | by joining with the skilled workers in agreements linking wages and prices , employers could hope to regulate competitive wage cutting amongst themselves in recession and end costly stoppages as the workers recouped these losses in booms . |
| 14 | During this period , students may decide to undertake placement-related studies leading to the award of the Diploma in Industrial Studies , thus further integrating their academic and applied knowledge as well as enhancing their career prospects . |
| 15 | Yoshida was no radical and did not wish to see drastic changes taking place within Japan . |
| 16 | Accordingly , it is not clear what rights are accepted by the transferee ; he may have accepted non-existing rights relying upon fraudulent information in a receipt message transmitted to him by someone pretending to be the carrier . |
| 17 | It must have had substantial embankments leading to it , for the nearby ground level is that of the line . |
| 18 | She would have had great difficulty establishing herself , but as it is she has sold her pottery successfully through shows and through galleries . |
| 19 | We 've tinkered with the list a bit , and lots of people with dicky UK addresses will have had inscrutable messages saying you 've been subbed onto the list again . |
| 20 | In no other circumstances would she have tolerated militant vigilantes operating with impunity so far beyond their own domains . |
| 21 | Frisch suggested that underweight women would also have impaired reproductive function owing to a lack of oestrogen produced in adipose tissue . |
| 22 | Reception staff at hotels based in cities and large towns may have to persuade unwanted persons loitering in the reception lounge to move on and leave the hotel ; the right to refuse service to persons unfit to be received is often the authority relied on when taking such actions . |
| 23 | As long as you have solicitors who can be admitted to the Personal Injury Panel or who can apply to take a Legal Aid Board franchise , there is no reason why they should not have experienced legal executives working under their control . |
| 24 | In Ramsay Street the transformation would have set title-tattling tongues working overtime for months . |
| 25 | He will have spent long years mastering this art . |
| 26 | ‘ IT MUST have been a big blow to the Dublin Theatre Festival ’ is not the thing to say to Tony O'Dalaigh who , as director of the festival must have imagined major profits blowing away as the Archaos tent took to the sky a few days before the French circus was due to perform . |
| 27 | Staff and councillors at the town hall have praised the generous efforts of the milkmen who will inevitably have to spend extra time picking up the gifts . |
| 28 | Notice that the regulations do not intend to stop financial institutions taking on risk , as this is a fundamental part of their activities . |
| 29 | The activities of Senator McCarthy and other extremists in American politics might come to affect American policy- making itself . |
| 30 | Although the case did not succeed , it illustrates how American lawyers will contrive to have civil cases arising from aircraft accidents anywhere in the world heard in a US court . |