Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Now she did n't want to go to an expensive restaurant in the West End . |
| 2 | " Jenny , I do n't want to sound like an old auntie , but you are not being very sensible about Matthew . " |
| 3 | Not all practices will want to contract for an expanded range of services and local circumstances will also affect contracting decisions . |
| 4 | Once the system is fully operational , then one may consider moving to an in-house installation if the economies are worthwhile . |
| 5 | The schools concerned will ideally seek to educate from an early age with a view to integrating the child into the normal educational system at the earliest opportunity . |
| 6 | We will usually aim to ensure that any document containing financial and other information issued by the firm as agent to a small group of potential investors , which the firm will generally need to approve as an authorised person under the Financial Services Act , does not fall foul of the prospectus provisions of the companies Act 1985 . |
| 7 | Patients still need to recuperate but do not need to stay in an acute hospital to do so . |
| 8 | The houses were much richer environments , decorated and equipped with the wide range of furnishings and domestic items one would expect to find in an average household . |
| 9 | He would appear to believe in an invented truth , an invented reality — a Rortyan reality , one might be inclined to call it at times . |
| 10 | If we are constituted as subjects by the totalities we inhabit , then our beliefs about the divide between science and ideology ( Althusser 's included ) will be determined too , and we can not expect to arrive at an impartial , objective view of it . |
| 11 | He moved towards her , and at the expression in his eyes , Robbie felt her heart begin thumping in an irregular crazy rhythm . |
| 12 | What would you like to see in an ideal world ? |
| 13 | After all , how would Ms Hamer like to work for an empty pay packet , day in and day out , like so many housewives do ? |
| 14 | I 'd always thought I 'd like to work in an old people 's home . |
| 15 | The relatives and friends who are left behind can also become entrapped in an overwhelming feeling that says ‘ I must be there when he takes his last breath ’ ; ‘ I must n't miss any last word he utters ’ . |
| 16 | There are potential pitfalls , the association may become dominated by an unrepresentative majority that could attempt to bring undue pressure on school policies . |
| 17 | When students pick up a BOOKWORM they know that they will rapidly become immersed in an enjoyable , skilfully-written story which provides an excellent introduction to real reading in English . |
| 18 | During the evening 's jaded hours one does not like to listen to an alien tongue . |
| 19 | Not surprisingly , therefore , entrepreneurs and managers can become locked into an existing company structure which may perform not particularly well but adequately enough to survive , or to survive while its position is steadily being undermined by import penetration . |
| 20 | They might well talk to a pretty lady when they would hesitate to confide in an old man like me . ’ |
| 21 | He saw the opportunity to play the peace card and the moderate rearmament card at the same time , fortified by the prospect that in times of trouble the public would prefer to vote for an established Government rather than a peculiarly unknown opposition . |
| 22 | The most that a strategy can realistically hope to win in an average one of its 1 5 pairings can not be much more than 600 points . |
| 23 | The most that a strategy can realistically hope to win in an average one of its 15 pairings can not be much more than 600 points . |
| 24 | According to Epting ( 1981 ) it is only through the continuous creation of new constructs that an individual can hope to deal with an ever-changing world . |
| 25 | Who would I want to fight with an old man ? " |
| 26 | As a lame duck , he will even have to contend with an unruly Republican contingent in Congress , as the fight to succeed him will begin immediately . |
| 27 | You may have to remain with an unsatisfactory state of affairs through most of 1993 , which means that any planned moves will prove heavy-going or much resented . |
| 28 | Tawney 's argument placed ‘ the world of Labour ’ explicitly before his audience , at a time when he and they were concerned about the WEA 's drift towards the middle class — a drift that any radical , like Tawney , would have regarded as an unqualified loss , an opting for the ‘ line of least resistance ’ . |
| 29 | In five years time from now it will have developed into an all powerful , constitutionally independent institution responsible for the Community 's monetary and exchange rate policies . |
| 30 | Those three operations then are the measure of modern medical practice : cancers which might have developed from an enlarged prostate , some rogue polyps and a spinal tumour , any one of which could have proved fatal , were all pre-empted by discovery and cure ; and I can not be other than deeply grateful for this additional lease of life . |