Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] [verb] [prep] the " 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 | You 've got a limited number of slots to sell so you do n't need to go thrashing around the country |
4 | 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 . |
5 | I ca n't wait to get started on the championship itself . ’ |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | ‘ Which gutter did you choose to go digging in the dirt ? ’ |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Such cultural diversity we should expect to find expressed in the structures and institutional life of the churches . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Notwithstanding these excesses of zeal , the Evangelical Alliance booklet does not appear to have gone over the top . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 ) . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | The court in Philippou does not appear to have known of the dictum in McHugh . |
19 | We , we were you know sort of asked , is there anything I can do to get rid of the baby ? |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | ‘ But as much as I 'd like to continue playing for the North , I suddenly thought there 's more to life than sitting on the M1 . |
24 | And something has to be done about the over-breeding of pedigree dogs : I 've met Home Office Minister Angela Rumbold to discuss important changes I would like to see made to The Dog Breeding Act . ’ |
25 | Football : Brazil scratch seven-year itch : Paddy Agnew in Rome on a match which many Italian fans would like to see repeated in the 1990 World Cup final |
26 | We also learned a good deal from that questionnaire about the kind of support and services you would like to see provided by the Alumni Office . |
27 | What would most like to see happen in the game : |
28 | As a parent , what would you like to see happen in the schools , or what sort of schooling would you best think would suit your child 's needs ? |
29 | But the main idea we would like to see winning over the next few months is the spread of self- government . |
30 | One thing I would like to see added to the A2 would be a second pair of outputs to send a DI signal straight to the front of house mixer while the main outputs were feeding the guitarist 's own rig . |