Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] the [noun prp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ruling would appear to permit the FBI to go into Panama and kidnap General Noriega , but when reporters asked President Bush yesterday morning if that was the case , he said : ‘ I 'm embarrassed to say I do n't know what ( the answer ) is . ’ |
| 2 | Laing wanted to make such a good job of the London factory that the reverse would be the case — that the Americans would want to cross the Atlantic to inspect the exemplary way the British ran things . |
| 3 | ‘ Second , ’ the Doctor continued , ‘ we do n't have to use the TARDIS to escape from the maze . |
| 4 | Officials at Japan 's Ministry of International Trade & Industry now say that they 're tired of quibbling over market share figures with the US , and say they do n't intend to allow the US to establish a new market share goal in upcoming semiconductor talks , which will begin in Hawaii next Tuesday , the Wall Street Journal reports — ‘ Because there was a controversy over the old 20% figure , which was taken as some form of commitment , we have no intention of referring to any new numbers ’ Koji Matsui , deputy director of the industrial electronics division of the Ministry declared . |
| 5 | Two years before , in BBC v. Hearn ( 1977 ) , trade union officials had threatened that their workers would refuse to allow the BBC to televise the cup final so that it could be seen in South Africa , because of the union 's disapproval of the racial policies of the government of that country . |