Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nor do I want to indulge in a post-mortem — although I suppose it 's an appropriate description , if the thing between us is now dead . ’ |
| 2 | A recent objection came from a client who did not want to invest in a company that gave political donations . |
| 3 | An Enfield clerical family took in a great-grandmother in her nineties for her last two years : ‘ she did n't want to go in a home and she wrote to my mother and asked if she could possibly look after her . |
| 4 | But he did n't want to sit in a pub , listening to the jollity and in-jokes of office workers . |
| 5 | When Celia appeared to go from bad to worse , Brian had advertised for a housekeeper and two had come and gone in quick succession , the first merely saying that the post was not to her ‘ fancy ’ , the second giving a fuller more blatant explanation : that she did not want to work in a household where there was nervous trouble . |
| 6 | ‘ I did n't want to work in a shop or a bank so I wrote to my local radio station , West Sound , asking if I could make the tea . ’ |
| 7 | Tony did not want to work in a shop or a factory . |
| 8 | I did n't want to work in a place where I could n't wear my fur coat . |
| 9 | I 'd prefer to work in a factory . |
| 10 | Will I need to invest in a Nitragon filter ? |
| 11 | The clinical terms project was started last year to develop a set of terms comprehensive enough to cover anything that a clinician might need to write in a patient 's record . |
| 12 | We do n't really want to colour in a jigsaw puzzle do you ? |
| 13 | must comply with ES policy on standards of appearance which requires everyone , regardless of location , to present a clean and tidy appearance and , in particular , to dress in a business-like way ( in general , this should be similar to the standards you would expect to see in a bank or building society ) . |
| 14 | ( Why Jeffreys should choose to appear in a court at York is puzzling , especially in the wrong clothes for his time and in a building which was erected about 60 years later . ) |
| 15 | The sequence above , starting with the lavas , is what geologists would expect to find in a hole piercing 6 km into the ocean crust . |
| 16 | Assuming that the number of aliens in the UK is ⅓%; of the population and that a football crowd is a random sample of the population , how many aliens would you expect to find in a crowd of 60000 ? |
| 17 | The effect is warm and friendly , rather than the immaculate ‘ designer look ’ that you might expect to find in a house full of talented people . |
| 18 | So while we 're proud to offer you a capacious oven and a classic waist-level grill in a traditional freestanding cooker , we 've added contemporary benefits which make life easier , and a choice of colours — something you 'd hardly expect to find in a cooker at this price . |
| 19 | The newspaper published an article alleging that material distributed from St Botolph 's has included ‘ the kind of stuff you would expect to find in a San Francisco bath-house , not a Church of England ’ , and , more broadly , that ‘ militant clerical homosexuality has now spread to a point where many of the ancient City churches are open pick-up joints . ’ |
| 20 | Very few environmentalists would choose to engage in a debate about the extent to which they had either succeeded or sold out . |
| 21 | He probably thought it was the gale that blasted his door open , but for the next hour he was busy dispensing more whisky than he would normally expect to sell in a week . |
| 22 | It had surprised Ruth that the Carsons should choose to live in a boarding-house , until she discovered that in New York it was quite the thing-always supposing that the establishment was high-class and in a good locality . |
| 23 | If you wish to live in central London , you should choose to stay in a hotel . |
| 24 | Do you prefer to exercise in a gymnasium ? |
| 25 | and he says , they 'd really like to go in a caravan he says to show |
| 26 | Q I would like to invest in a gravel cleaner that removes detritus without syphoning off water , as I would like to be able to clean the gravel in between regular changes . |
| 27 | I do n't think I 'd like to work in a factory . |
| 28 | The need to provide a 24-hour service to hospitals means opportunities may occur to participate in a shift scheme which operates , attracting shift allowance payments . |
| 29 | Not that I 'd like to sleep in a box , mind you , not without any air — you 'd wake up dead , for a start and then where would you be ? |
| 30 | Once this is done , Japan 's electronics companies will begin to compete in a market that is only just emerging — selling software packages for personal computers . |