Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [prep] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Classic lighting is ideal for creating atmosphere in traditional-style bedrooms , although if you often read in bed you may need to opt for a more practical design |
| 2 | You may choose to go into a more expensive home , providing it meets your assessed needs and you and your family or friends ( or a charity or trust ) can meet the difference between the fee provided by the Department and the cost of the home . |
| 3 | But as well as all the companies — and there is a host of Cambex Corps and IPL Systems Incs just under the tall poppies of the IBM marketplace , there are thousands and thousands of individuals who must now feel devalued in a deeply demoralising way , people that have made it their life 's work to understand everything there is to know and understand about IBM and its mainframe products , who now find that all that hard-won knowledge is a rapidly wasting asset — not just industry commentators and pundits who will soon find that the market ca n't bear any more ‘ Into the Big Blue Yonder : the Decline and Fall of an American Icon ’ books , but an unsung army of data processing managers who now feel they are too old to start again and learn something new and fundamentally different virtually from scratch , and will instead sink back into the anonymity of early retirement . |
| 4 | I 'd like to go into a little more the composition of the net debt which again is something that er interests some of you we have er a reduction both on gross debt and equally an increase in cash as you would expect as a result of the Elsivir sale the increases are not fixed debt fixed term fixed rate debt is a function again of the exchange rate we have n't in issued any more the whole of the reduction of debt therefore is confined to our floating rate or variable debt and that amount 's ready to the repayment of the gilder drawings we had under our to hedge or partially to hedge our holding in Elsivir We have increased our cash holdings and they remain concentrated in sterling as part of our sterling er asset er portfolio which is managed from Millbank and which we regard as our investable funds as and when needed . |
| 5 | But there is a danger that education might become confined within a strictly utilitarian approach that neglects literature , the arts and social sciences . |
| 6 | This is a very hard question to answer but one which the executive search firms would like to answer in a really strong and substantive way . |
| 7 | We would all like to hear about a far larger programme than any he has managed to announce since the Government came to office ; otherwise , they stand convicted of hypocrisy and bad faith . |
| 8 | When we have what one might call this coarse-cut overview , we then have tended to approach the businesses and ask them to produce a variety of scenarios ranging from what they would like to do in a totally free world with access to unlimited money , to the extremes of divestiture at the other end . |
| 9 | ‘ Are you sure you would not like to rest for a little ? ’ enquired Agnes . |
| 10 | Like the kindergarten , Chamberlain did not hesitate to invoke as a parallel the formation of the United States , transposing Alexander Hamilton 's ‘ Learn to think Continentally ’ into ‘ Learn to think Imperially ’ . |
| 11 | Mansfield rightly concludes that most Arabs would like to live in a more tolerant society under efficient modern governments . |
| 12 | There is now a real hope that all the hard solid work John Gillam has put into the pottery of the northern frontier , will soon begin to shape into a much more reliable and closer chronology . |
| 13 | But since they operate in a real world , their force and the respect they can command depends to a very considerable extent on the degree to which they take account of the real world . |
| 14 | It 's perhaps the one time you 'll bless starting with a completely clean slate ; at least there are no existing possessions that might perhaps prove difficult to accommodate . |
| 15 | Synfuel production will remain concentrated in a relatively small number of countries . |
| 16 | In future , some governing bodies and their LEAs may wish to proceed on a more rational basis . |
| 17 | The staff regarded the administration as ‘ firm but fair ’ , and most seemed to appreciate what a younger and better educated workforce might have regarded as a somewhat paternalistic attitude . |
| 18 | He knew no English and took no interest in what he must have regarded as a far flung outpost of his Angevin Empire — except for the revenues it could bring . |
| 19 | It would have to wait for a more opportune time , she decided , and replaced the receiver . |
| 20 | Shame they could n't have stumbled upon a more dramatic way of doing it . |
| 21 | They must have fallen from a very great height to end up like that ! |
| 22 | Stewart slotted in well in his first full game and Liverpool should have won by a much bigger margin . |
| 23 | Against Tipperary , Galway showed superb resilience and determination , quenching the fire and verve of Babs ' Keating 's side to such an extent that they could and should have won by a much greater margin . |
| 24 | He may have come as a very self- satisfied person , after all , socially , he had made it . |
| 25 | The timing of the announcement could not have come at a more politically sensitive time . |
| 26 | I felt … well , the offer could n't have come at a more opportune time , could it ? ’ |
| 27 | The eve of the second anniversary of Maxwell 's death could n't have come at a more crucial time for the pensioners who travelled to London today . |
| 28 | His return to Eaton Park could scarcely have come at a more opportune moment considering that Gordon Hamilton , Stuart Laing , Norman Robson and Davy Nicholl have all moved on during the close season . |
| 29 | I might have wished for a little less detachment in the Rodrigo ( the adagio in particular is rather cool ) , but the Villa-Lobos offerings suit Kraft down to the ground . |
| 30 | Charlie could have wished for a more cloudy night . |