Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the partnership agreement itself it should perhaps not be made too easy for partners to leave , though in practice , of course , an unhappy or unsatisfied partner is a liability whom the firm will usually want to see depart at the earliest convenient time . |
| 2 | He did n't want to sit gossiping in the kitchen with that old slob of a cousin . |
| 3 | The aim is to have about three suits per series — I certainly do n't want to come prancing on every week in something different , but neither do I want people to groan when they see me in the same old suit . |
| 4 | You 've got a limited number of slots to sell so you do n't need to go thrashing around the country |
| 5 | Certainly we do not need to try to go into the whole causal history of an event in order to specify something — one of the many sets of things — that had the property of making the occurrence of the event necessary . |
| 6 | ‘ Obviously if I decide not to take the job he 'll need to start looking for a replacement . ’ |
| 7 | I ca n't wait to get started on the championship itself . ’ |
| 8 | You do n't need to have taken in the fact , planted early on , that Joe keeps a gun , or have noticed the required sign in the foyer warning that shots will be fired ( ca n't the nanny state keep its paws off anything ? ) to know that retribution is coming , and on elephant feet . |
| 9 | Consequently , no attempt was made to provide an interview schedule such as that developed by Labov ; fieldworkers were simply briefed on the kind of social information ( such as occupation , educational background , family connections and previous residence of speaker ) which they would need to have acquired by the end of the observation period . |
| 10 | ‘ Which gutter did you choose to go digging in the dirt ? ’ |
| 11 | Its message was iconoclastic , even radical and certainly not at all the type of thing that one would expect to see emanating from a government department , with the seal of approval provided by a preface over the minister 's signature . |
| 12 | The sort of sites you 'd expect to see allocated in a local plan . |
| 13 | He was tall , lean , shock-haired and deeply tanned : humorous of mien and colloquial of speech , he was the last person one would expect to find wandering through the groves of Academe . |
| 14 | Such cultural diversity we should expect to find expressed in the structures and institutional life of the churches . |
| 15 | I look grimy , bad-tempered , just the sort of guy you 'd expect to find hiding in a woodpile in Deptford when there 's trouble about . |
| 16 | Item No. 1 : this winged lion of St Mark in a gondola is the typical sort of item you would expect to find attached to the top of expensive furniture . |
| 17 | However , consider the sort of lexical content you would expect to find associated with the forms treatment , landing , party and basin in a dictionary entry , and note how finding the forms embedded within a co-text constrains their interpretation . |
| 18 | Notwithstanding these excesses of zeal , the Evangelical Alliance booklet does not appear to have gone over the top . |
| 19 | Although the market would appear to have plumped for the Open Software Foundation 's Motif , Sun Microsystems Inc , the largest dedicated Unix system vendor , remains exclusively committed to its Open Look alternative in the Solaris operating system delivered with its machines . |
| 20 | Most religions , Christianity among them , would appear to have degenerated to a point where they can be used to provide , at one extreme , a justification for intense civil turmoil by violent and cruel people , and at the other , justification for luxurious globe-trotting and conference-attending by a ritual-ridden and pomp-loving hierarchy . |
| 21 | A similar strategy of bureaucratisation would appear to have emerged during the inter-war period among Japanese employers , which was to some extent directly influenced by developments in the United States ( Taira , 1973 ) . |
| 22 | But , strikingly , Hitler 's personal preoccupation with ‘ the struggle against the Jews ’ does not appear to have figured as a leading component of his image for the bulk of the population . |
| 23 | Although his brother , the Rev. Arthur Oakeley ( then squire of Lydham ) does not appear to have approved of the proposed Bishop 's Castle Railway and did not attend the Opening , Commander Henry Oakeley , R.N. ( Retd. ) was very interested . |
| 24 | Relations between Becker and the rest of the German team would appear to have deteriorated after the incident in Melbourne when , within minutes of learning that Stich and Udo Riglewski had been nominated to represent Germany in the doubles , in Barcelona , he set in motion a chain of events which led to a quick re-think . |
| 25 | The court in Philippou does not appear to have known of the dictum in McHugh . |
| 26 | Undomesticated dogs , like many other wild animals , do not expect to eat according to a rigid schedule . |
| 27 | We , we were you know sort of asked , is there anything I can do to get rid of the baby ? |
| 28 | But in Athens it was only one of many roles which a citizen could expect to have to play in the public life of the polis . |
| 29 | Even those one would expect to have rejoiced at the religious revival which Lewis 's popularity heralded and to a certain degree inspired could only bring themselves to sneer . |
| 30 | This is in direct contrast to what we might expect to follow according to the inductivist view , namely , that in order to establish the truth of some problematic observation statement we appeal to more secure observation statements , and perhaps laws derived inductively from them , but not to theory . |